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"We're in a crisis up here, though it may seem to be unimportant to the ignorant Urbanites in Lansing. I have a serious concern about the safety of toddlers being safe in their own backyards."

Form up, arm up, then go out and kill all the wolves despite who doesn't like it. If they INSIST that you live your lives in mortal fear stick a 12ga. under their noses.

"If they INSIST that you live your lives in mortal fear stick a 12ga. under their nose"

You are more accurate than most people know, and there is already precedence, though they used a merrily bubbling tar pot and a huge bag of feathers in Santa Rosa County, Florida.

That's Florida, not FloriDUH. Here's why I made the distinction.

Some agency types came to town to lay down the law, accompanied by some state troopers. On the way into town they saw huge (8'long) rats made of plywood and labeled with agency initials at roadside culverts.

On arrival, there was a crowd of some 300 people. The crats and troopers got out of their cars. The crowd opened a path for them. And they were almost at the door when it happened.

They saw the bubbling tar, with someone stirring it, the huge (and transparent) bag of feathers, and their reptilian hind brains began to function.

The crats realized the crowd didn't like them. Not in the least.

And the troopers realized that they had neither enough ammo if trouble started, nor any backup in that county. Suddenly, they remembered a pressing appointment back in Tallahassee from whence they had come.

The troopers told the 'crats they had to return to Tallahassee STAT, the crats also remembered pressing affairs, and they left together.

Santa Rosa County didn't get the same oppressive regs imposed on them that other counties did, after all.

Would the citizens have actually tarred and feathered 'em? Who knows, but 'crats are basically cowards - that's why they take such jobs knowing that they are hurting others as part of their job description.

For what it is worth, Panhandle LEOs tend to be far more Constitutionally oriented than either enviro-socialism impaired Game officers or some (but nowhere all) South Florida LEOs.

I'll be happy to share with anyone why is interested, the successes and failures we have had in dealing with a similar predator problem, but with puma, here in the Everglades.