@#$% Coyotes.
09-14-2004 | 08:59 PM
#51
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 250
Likes: 0
From: calgary alberta canada
RE: @#$% Coyotes.
ORIGINAL: livbucks
Ok C,
You seem to have come back and added a whole new thought to your previous post. Coyotes serve no purpose and here is why. For rodent control we have foxes, bobcats, hawks, eagles, snakes, fishers, weasels, raccoons,on and on.....When coyotes get established, they breed to vast numbers and slowly decimate everything until there is nothing left. They thrive at the expense of all else. One species relaces many. I have seen the wasteland that these critters leave in their wake, devoid of predator and prey. When everything is gone, they move on, only to repeat the process somewhere else. I don't want them extinct, just this side of it would be nice. Why, as a deer hunter, do you want a species that continually hunts, chases or otherwise harrasses even healthy deer, so that a few more mice will be eaten, mice that would be eaten anyway, by something that won't eat the fawns? When I look in the crystal ball, I see coyotes, and eventually wolves and cougars, replacing hunters..YUK!
Ok C,
You seem to have come back and added a whole new thought to your previous post. Coyotes serve no purpose and here is why. For rodent control we have foxes, bobcats, hawks, eagles, snakes, fishers, weasels, raccoons,on and on.....When coyotes get established, they breed to vast numbers and slowly decimate everything until there is nothing left. They thrive at the expense of all else. One species relaces many. I have seen the wasteland that these critters leave in their wake, devoid of predator and prey. When everything is gone, they move on, only to repeat the process somewhere else. I don't want them extinct, just this side of it would be nice. Why, as a deer hunter, do you want a species that continually hunts, chases or otherwise harrasses even healthy deer, so that a few more mice will be eaten, mice that would be eaten anyway, by something that won't eat the fawns? When I look in the crystal ball, I see coyotes, and eventually wolves and cougars, replacing hunters..YUK!
If you have land, set up some snares for yotes and then sell the furs and use their meat for bear bait or food. Least you could do is not be wasteful. Cause if you are willing to waste a coyote, then what else are you willing to waste?
Kill um, sure. Find a good use for them afterward though. Leave a few around, so you can do the same the next year. People complain about gophers too. The more of them there are, the more food for yotes.
09-14-2004 | 10:28 PM
#52
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,236
Likes: 0
RE: @#$% Coyotes.
If you have land, set up some snares for yotes and then sell the furs and use their meat for bear bait or food. Least you could do is not be wasteful. Cause if you are willing to waste a coyote, then what else are you willing to waste?
Bear baiting is ILLEGAL in PA.
I'm sure any bear that comes across a coyote carcass will utilize it though, without the act of being intentionally baited. What does bother me though is coming across a rotting fawn that was run down by a coyote. The problem (or resilience) of yotes is that hunting alone would never eliminate them. Only a combination of habitat destruction, prey species decimation, widespread poisoning and bounty hunting would accomplish this. Hunters see only a fraction of the numbers that are present. The widespread practice of shooting them on sight will only control their numbers, which would be a good thing IMO. The timing of the coyotes disappearance from many states and the decimation of the deer herds in the 1800's was no coincidence.
