We at the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting would like to thank Syracuse.com for their January 8^th article, “NY coyote-hunting contest offers $2,000 grand prize for heaviest killed” for clarifying just what the Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Sullivan County considers sportsmanlike behavior.

According to the article it’s the killing of coyotes, day or night—by gun or by trap—for a “fun,” as well as financial gain.

Apparently it doesn’t matter how you kill them, just as long as the coyotes’ carcasses as kept a certain temperature to prove they’re fresh (not because anyone is going to eat them, it just seems more sportsmanlike to them if the kill was made during the days of the contest rather than sometime earlier).

In other words their definition of sportsman-like has nothing to do with what’s sane or humane, just what’s fair to other hunter/trappers. It may be too late to derail…