About 25 years ago, I lived at Dugway Proving Grounds. DPG is a very remote and small test site located about an hours drive SW of Salt Lake City. Maybe 400 people lived there.
After a series of cayote attacks on peoples pets, the post commander issued a warning to residents that it was against post regulations to shoot the cayotes even in the act of killing a pet.
A day later, a post policeman, asked if I had heard of the edict. He told me that the post police would aggressively investigate any shots fired in the housing areas. Then, he told me that the post police were very busy and it probably would take them over an hour to start the investigation.
The civilian population was one of the most heavily armed I’ve ever encountered. The post commander was shocked to learn that there were three firearms for every person living there. He was even more shocked to learn that number only included the registered firearms.
“series of cayote attacks”
“shoot the cayotes”
Uh, this story is about coyotes.