The coyote population around Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is exploding. People put warnings up on the NextDoor app “Coyote just sighted in this neighborhood. Keep your pets in.” The discussion ALWAYS devolves to:
1. Shoot them: they are predators and are a danger to people, the community and to livestock.
2. The were here first, they are God’s creatures, we are destroying their habitat, and they are hungry.
About 80% to 90% of people are in Camp #1, but there are some real agitated kooks in Camp #2. I told to one kook in #2 that I hope she doesn’t get badly affected by the growing coyote population and get attacked. She wrote back “Are you threatening me?”
The area is surrounded by Coeur d’Alene National Forest which is 1,130 square miles of wilderness and all of Idaho has 4.7 million acres of designated wilderness (the third largest amount in the lower 48). When you point out that critters have plenty of land on which to roam and hunt, but they come to neighborhoods for easy food (cats, small dogs, young children), they go apoplectic. “Who are WE to decide who lives and dies? We shouldn’t play God!” These people are absolutely nuts.
I can’t believe these people have infested North Idaho.
Aren't human beings also God's creatures? Humans were probably in Cour D'Alene before coyotes, who originally inhabited deserts and grasslands but moved in after the wolf population was obliterated. And speaking of habitat, coyotes thrive in proximity to humans who furnish them with plenty of food--livestock, dogs, cats, etc.
The pro-chaos crowd likes to repeat this as if it was a fact. It most certainly is not. Coyotes originated in New Mexico and Mexico. Yes, now they have spread everywhere but they are not native to Idaho.
“I can’t believe these people have infested North Idaho.”
Transplants from California, most likely the Bay Area.
Every 20+-year-old was here long before any living coyote was.
“They were here first”
Yeah, so what? What does that have to do with anything?
I’m here now, and I’m going to shoot vermin like that on sight. Just about everything wrong is due to airheaded leftists and their stupid ideas. It’s a shame they tend to move on from habitat they’ve degraded.
Not only are they nuts, but one day soon they will be running the Country. For that you can think the Educational System.