Link is to the complete short story posted yesterday on FR.
Posted on 12/27/2017 5:04:54 AM PST by x1stcav
Dennis Murphy sniffed the bobcat urine he uses to lure his prey. He checked the silencer on his AR-15 assault rifle and loaded a few snares into his Ford pickup.
“Let’s go kill some coyotes,” he said.
But he wasn’t heading for the wilderness. Mr. Murphy’s stalking ground is on the contentious new frontier where hunters are clashing with conservationists: cities and suburbs.
Coyotes are largely associated with their ancestral bastions in the wild lands of the American West, but they are highly adaptable, and in recent years they have been colonizing large population centers throughout North America. The hunters have come after them, stalking the predators in settings like strip mall parking lots, housing tract cul-de-sacs, and plazas in the shadow of skyscrapers.
The growing popularity of urban hunting is igniting a fierce debate over the perils and benefits coyotes pose in populated areas, and whether city dwellers ought to adapt to living alongside a cunning predator that has thrived since one of its top adversaries, the gray wolf, has been all but wiped out in much of the continent.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
I prefer our .22 Gamo or .22LR subsonics.
I prefer my 150 lb Anatolian. They would never come near my house
Link is to the complete short story posted yesterday on FR.
A good alternative.
Read it yesterday.
Good ‘un.
My daughter lived in the canyons in Santa Clarita CA, and it was overrun with cyotes because the liberals wouldn’t allow them being killed. The coyote were all over the place and everyday they would hear of a neighbor’s cat or dog getting attacked even when being walked on a leash, which is what eventually happened to their own little dog. Grabbed, yanked away from my SIL, who had to helplessly listen to his dog screaming in death, because the liberals won’t allow either guns or killing coyote.
I stopped reading at: “He checked the silencer on his AR-15 assault rifle...”
Clearly this article was written by an ignorant buffoon.
I live in a town about 27 miles north of Indy. Several nights this week, I was awakened by a pack of coyotes about 30 feet from my backdoor. It was scary and eerie because the sounds they make are loud and feral. There is a field behind where I live and a highway, but it is residential.
This is made worse because my neighbor puts food out for the “German shepherds”. LOL
Excellent! Thanks for posting the link. I missed it yesterday.
There is a year-round bounty on coyotes in many counties in Virginia.
>This is made worse because my neighbor puts food out for the “German shepherds”.<
This is a problem up here, too.
They’re usually, but not always, old ladies that think they’re doing the wildlife a favor.
“This is made worse because my neighbor puts food out for the “German shepherds”. LOL”
Did you get a look at them? Sounds more like a pack of feral dogs to me. Btw, which are far more dangerous than coyotes. Until you’re sure of which they are stay clear. Feral dogs are generally not afraid of humans and have been known to take down humans. coyotes generally are leary of humans and will leave them alone.
Let’s not forget the ones closing the Golden Gate bridge at night going for the free stuff in SF.
They are coyotes. I googled the noises they make and it was exactly like that.
Supposedly coyotes are lazy and will go for any easy eats.
The coyotes have been around here, but not this close. This summer I looked out back and a giant skunk was eating out of her dishes back there.
She thought those were cats I’m sure.
Nobody can let their little dogs out back anymore. They could get attacked by coyotes or sprayed by a skunk.
I saw coyotes in Memorial Park in Houston TX, but they looked like hybrids.
That park is entirely surrounded by city for miles.
Coyote killed and ran off with our dear cats, on two different occasions. NO animals of ours are allowed outside now.Period!
Christmas morning a Bobcat ran up our driveway. The wildlife has the right away here in our town. I heard that the city even built a crossway for them around the 134 freeway so they won't get killed crossing the freeway.
INSANE we are now!!
Great story, Matt.
Thanks for posting.
About five year ago we were overrun by skunks. They were even finding their way into houses.
A very persistent trapping program resulted in over 90 of the little critters being ‘relocated’,errr ‘dealt with’, uh , no, uh ‘taught to swim’.
We no longer have a skunk problem.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.