Loony, left-wing idiots created the mess with their pagan wolf-worshipping that they've extended to coyotes. In California these morons managed to con the public into banning the hunting of mountain lions and now we have people getting killed in Los Angeles by mountain lions. Never see PETA show up to console the bereaved when one of their 'pets' kills a human being.
I have a friend who lives along a river in Northern California and he routinely shoots and kills mountain lions and coyotes and then tosses the corpses down a 700 foot deep mine shaft on his property. I asked him if he was ever going to stop killing the critters and he said: "Yeah, the mineshaft'll fill up someday."
I hope so.
At one time, hunters in Oregon bought licenses (paid the state)to hunt bear with their dogs. Loony, left-wing idiots got the state to out law sport bear hunting with dogs.
Now the state pays professional hunters with dogs to go out and kill bears to keep the bear damage down.