[Lion Den Dan]

You have that right. Coyotes are pests that are very difficult to eradicate. You can hunt them as hard as you wish and still can not upset their populations. If you do in their food supply, then you damage their population but to make them go away, fergiddaboudit.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

Totally agree. Coyotes are a menace when you have livestock and yet the animal activists have kept us from doing anything about it. Now that they are in the city slickers back yard they are complaining about safety.
Nice to see it come around and 'bite them in the back'.

[woodbutcher]

In almost every one of these stories, some "expert" on nature makes the remark that the reason the particular animal (deer, coyote, bear, etc.) is a problem is that we have pushed them out of their natural habitat.

It is all our fault.

Prior to 1950, there were zero coyotes on the East Coast.

This story states that in 1997 there were only 1,500 coyotes in NJ and now there are 3,000...but it is our fault that they rob garbage cans and eat cats?

We are not seeing more because we are driving them out of their natural habitat....we are seeing more because THERE ARE MORE!!!!

Why is it liberals are totally devoid of logic?

[ronnied]

don't get me wrong, this is n.j., north jersey at one time was partially rural at one time back in the late fifties & sixtys. i used to shoot woodchucks for a sport at that time
between march & october with a rifle. a special permit was needed for the rifle. i took a ride up there a few years ago because the interstate was boring & couldn't believe the transformation. guns & hunting are taboo here. hunters in nj will be extinct in the near future because of the "people".....