400,000 Coyotes Are Killed in the U.S. Each Year… The Reason Why Will Make You Livid
M. M. SullivanAt least 400,000 coyotes are killed each year in the United States. That’s an average of nearly 1,100 individuals a day.
So why isn’t the government doing something to stop it? Well, mainly because they have been orchestrating a discreet mass slaughter of coyotes for nearly a century.
Read more at http://blog.therainforestsite.com/killing-coyotes/#g4cx4aXjKm7uwMDO.99
Also, know that a “reality” show, in its third season, http://deaddogwalkin.com
is a testament to just how low society has stooped in its ongoing backslide to hitherto unattainable depths. Next stop? Hell itself.
Exposing the Big Game 
When I first moved to the rural area where I know live (back in 1970) there were coyotes here. Many nights in the summer I could hear them howling about 1/4 mile from the house. I never felt afraid for myself or for our livestock. The neighbors did, though, so I would never say anything to them about the coyotes. They hated coyotes.
Wolves have come back over the years and the coyotes are less common. But that’s only part of the story. More people have moved in, too, and with them the attitude that nature is dangerous and can only be dealt with using a high powered rifle. So now there are almost no coyotes, foxes, badges, mink, otters, beaver, or bobcats. They are either shot or trapped. Wolves are shot (in season and out of season), run over if on the road, or trapped.
Scum. These f*ckers (sorry!) remind me of a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers called ‘Real Men Don’t Kill Kai-Oats”. You can only hope Karma will bite them back one day.
There is open season all year against coyotes in PA. Disgusting.
Here too–sickening!
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We have been trying to end coyote killing contests in New Mexico. Sadly, the promoters and contestants like to say, the “more coyotes we kill, the more they make”. They kill for fun, for target practice, and because they hate coyotes. Contest killing is not about protecting livestock. The article by Finkle you reference was written in 1999. Killing Technology has changed a great deal since 1999. We need to update the research because humans have now developed very effective killing technology. The species itself may be changing (think socio-biology). We know coyotes are migrating closer to urban areas. But many of us living in more rural areas where killing contests are ubiquitous are not seeing or hearing many coyotes. Is it possible rural coyotes are actually disappearing? We are seeing more rodents including pocket gophers and mice. As a note, in New Mexico in the last year, there were 32 killing contests. In the USA, there have been at least 250 killing contests in the last year. How do we know? We have painstakingly counted them. It is essential we use current data if we are to end wildlife killing contests once and for all. It is also critical that coyotes and other native species be statutory recognized in wildlife statutes rather than ignored. As long as these loopholes exist, the killing will continue.
Why isn’t the government doing something to stop it? For Pete’s sake, the fish and game departments go along with killing everything that people either want to eat, make trophies of, or just get out of the way. So coyotes–people don’t seem to eat them, they don’t often go after big animals, and they haven’t gobbled up dozens of innocent children heading for the school bus. But they are among the animals that Nagy and Johnson say people regard as “trash,” the animals we just don’t want around. And of course we’re seeing more of them because we’re grabbing their habitat for development and roads and logging. Besides, maybe they’re just fun to shoot! I’ve heard guys here in good old Spokane, Washington (not far from Idaho) talk about hunting coyotes as if they were just looking for a little entertainment on a day off. Guess that’s reason enough go get the rifle. If you can have a contest, well that just adds the fun of competition to the killing.
About 25 years ago there was a story on one of our local TV stations about shooting crows. Not for food but for fun. That’s how one of the promoters described it. Totally disgusting. I wrote the station asking why they would promote killing for the fun of it. No response. I guess they felt just fine with their story story promoting sadism and thrill-killing.
When the MN-DNR opened a season on wolves one brave hunter said to an MPR reporter that he would honor the wolf he killed by turning it into a hat.
I just keep hoping that since these killers are not mortal, that this idiocy will die out along with them, unless they’ve passed it on to their spawn. I don’t think modern kids are going to follow in their footsteps. Patience! There is no excuse for government-sponsored exterimation through Wildlife Services either, and I hope they are exposed. I hope the documentary that is out has the Blackfish effect.
or not immortal, sorry.
It probably won’t die out with them. They have lobbyists in the legislature here (MN and WI) who push bills through protecting their “culture” and “tradition”. But you are right that modern people aren’t following in their footsteps so that’s why the promotion through laws honoring this kill culture.