that is sad. i hope the wildlife management people do a good job figuring out the number of permits for hunting to keep the animal overpopulation at bay. Getting killed quickly would be better than going hungry, as you said
Anytime people try to help animals they end up hurting them. Then they build, build, build in areas where the animals have no food sources.
My daughter used to live in Santa Clarita. They built houses all over the canyons where, among other life lived, was a coyote population. Then they made it illegal to kill or harm cyotes. People cannot let their pets out, and even some dogs are snatched while being walked on a leash. My daughter’s dog suffered the same fate just a few feet from their front door.
People have had to control coyote population for hundreds of years, they will kill your livestock and any other animals you have. You don’t have to kill all of them, on ranches they will hang dead coyote pelts on the fence, and it deters other chores from getting in and attacking the livestock.
Before people came in with fenced in livestock, it was survival of the fittest. Predators that were weak and couldn’t hunt didn’t survive. Natural way of keeping down population.
That’s everything you didn’t really want to know and didn’t really ask about cyotes, LOL