[Steamburg]

Aside from the guarantee of libtard hilarity. I actually find coyotes to be better neighbors than liberals. First, I don’t raise sheep, that would be a deal breaker. However, they keep the vermin population in check. Their howls are preferable to rap music. They quickly leave if you shoot a couple of them. They don’t borrow your stuff or drink your beer. Yep, coyotes are definitely better.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Golden Gate park does not need coyotes. The homeless bums on the east end near Haight Street are more than enough.

[pigsmith]

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I assume this is a young coyote because his behavior seemed more 'naive and innocent' than that of a more wary, older one. Tried to make friends with my Blue Heeler, was not received well at all, retreats to think what to do next. The previous week I saw this one playing (through the fence) with the neighbor dogs.

There has been no trouble with coyotes that I know of in this well-populated area of 2-5 acre lots. Most travel solo but I have many pictures of groups of five or more traveling through my yard in winter; I wonder if the coyote generations living here somehow teach their young to tread lightly? I've seen a neighbor's chicken stolen once, but I hold fault more with the chicken owner not doing a better job of coyote-proofing his chicken coop. The unfenced part of my yard has a footpath worn through generations of coyotes passing through.

I'm not condoning the foolishness of allowing wild animals take over an area of human occupation like they are doing in Golden Gate Park; those here 'seem' to know they must not cross paths with those well-established creatures who walk on hind legs and carry fire sticks, because they sure do not linger here in this immediate area for long.

[RichInOC]

I think you’ll find that San Franciscans will turn out to be proof that there are some people that coyotes refuse to eat.

[bill1952]

Bawahahaha! Good Lord, we need to encourage them to accept this, along with all kinds of other wild predators, like bears & wolves.
Its just not fair to hunt them or shoot them.

In Fact, I think Jim should hold a FR fundraiser to send hundreds of wild animals to SF and loose them in the parks.
Who do those mangy humans think that they are anyway, intruding on the animal's space like that!

I'm serious. I may be crazy, but I'm dead serious!
Quid pro quo, sauce for the goose, and all that...

[Jim Noble]

[heshtesh]

I live in NYS along the PA border and take my glock 19 with me every time i take my Jack Russell for a walk in the woods,curious how that Canadian family would feel about letting coyotes roam around after thier daughter was ripped limb to limb last year by a pack of coyotes in New Brunswick?

[berdie]

“The presence of coyotes is good for the eco system”

Alrighty then.

Maybe one or two...but you get a pack..you can expect more that a few feral cats to go missing.

A few years ago, for whatever strange reason, we had a huge explosion in the coyote population. Accompanied by an infestation of feral hogs, some of which were the size of a small dune buggy (no exaggeration). Things got pretty Dodge City, lol.

A neighbor of mine got two Catahoulas. They made short work of the coyotes. I almost, but not quite, felt sorry for them. I still hear a few in the distance but not close to my house. Although quite capable, they were aided in the feral hog invasion with some human intervention. Most skidaddled back to the river bottom. Still there, but not invasive, so far. Oddly enough those two Catahoulas don't bother domestic pets or people. I call them Dirty and Harry. I think he gave them some sissified names.

[MarkL]

Maybe the hippie "conservationists" in SF will open a free-range coyote petting zoo / day care center for their children.

Two good things would come of that... Fewer "hippie babies" to grow up to hippie "adults," and well fed coyotes.

Mark