Glendale Coyotes Move Into Abandoned House
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/glendale-coyotes-abandoned-house_n_958603.html
There goes the neighborhood!
Glendale residents are growing concerned about some recent transplants to the sleepy residential community. Neighbors on Brockmont Drive say that a pack of at least seven coyotes have taken over an abandoned home, reports CBS Los Angeles, and officials are unsure about how to react.
According to Glendale Mayor Laura Friedman, a nearby resident, the coyotes should not be trapped. According to Daily News, Friedman told Fox11 that the coyotes "need to coexist with us," and that killing them would be "unfortunate, because we did choose to live here in the hillsides, and we should be living with these animals."
Oh, really?
1) Coyotes, like us, are opportunistic so-and-sos. It's truly them vs. us, and they have no more moral right to the area than we do. We're bigger than they are, and they aren't any better than we are, so . . .
2) They prey on everything they can find in an area -- including pets, livestock, small children, and even, sometimes, at night, adult human beings. You really want that to go on in your neighborhood?
3) Coyotes carry deadly diseases, including everything from distemper and parvo to canine rabies. They also carry parasites, which they can spread in their feces or even by direct contact. Do you really want that to go on in your neighborhood?
4) Coyotes are one of many weedy species. Like crabgrass in Southern California or pot just about anywhere, they turn up just any old place -- forests, meadowlands, the Back 40 of farms, residential neighborhoods, canyons, you name it. Burn them out or kill them off with pesticides, and you'll have double the number return within a few months, thriving because now the competition is gone. They breed as prolifically as any canine species, too -- and they will happily crossbreed with your dogs.
5) Coyotes can hunt on their own, in pairs, or in packs, and they're good at it, too. They are sneaky so-and-sos who use guile and stealth at least as often as direct confrontations and all-out attacks to take down enemies and prey (for more on which see (1), above). They are far more successful than wolves, who have been hunted nearly to extinction in this country and Russia because they cannot find ways of avoiding humans as necessary.
6) Like lawsuits, honey? Just keep on recommending not trapping or otherwise getting rid of those coyotes, and soon people will be suing you in droves for what "your" coyotes are doing to them, their children, their pets, their livestock, and the area in general. I recommend a careful reading of Gary Larson's There's A Hair In My Dirt. Study it -- there's going to be a test afterwards.
There goes the neighborhood!
Glendale residents are growing concerned about some recent transplants to the sleepy residential community. Neighbors on Brockmont Drive say that a pack of at least seven coyotes have taken over an abandoned home, reports CBS Los Angeles, and officials are unsure about how to react.
According to Glendale Mayor Laura Friedman, a nearby resident, the coyotes should not be trapped. According to Daily News, Friedman told Fox11 that the coyotes "need to coexist with us," and that killing them would be "unfortunate, because we did choose to live here in the hillsides, and we should be living with these animals."
Oh, really?
1) Coyotes, like us, are opportunistic so-and-sos. It's truly them vs. us, and they have no more moral right to the area than we do. We're bigger than they are, and they aren't any better than we are, so . . .
2) They prey on everything they can find in an area -- including pets, livestock, small children, and even, sometimes, at night, adult human beings. You really want that to go on in your neighborhood?
3) Coyotes carry deadly diseases, including everything from distemper and parvo to canine rabies. They also carry parasites, which they can spread in their feces or even by direct contact. Do you really want that to go on in your neighborhood?
4) Coyotes are one of many weedy species. Like crabgrass in Southern California or pot just about anywhere, they turn up just any old place -- forests, meadowlands, the Back 40 of farms, residential neighborhoods, canyons, you name it. Burn them out or kill them off with pesticides, and you'll have double the number return within a few months, thriving because now the competition is gone. They breed as prolifically as any canine species, too -- and they will happily crossbreed with your dogs.
5) Coyotes can hunt on their own, in pairs, or in packs, and they're good at it, too. They are sneaky so-and-sos who use guile and stealth at least as often as direct confrontations and all-out attacks to take down enemies and prey (for more on which see (1), above). They are far more successful than wolves, who have been hunted nearly to extinction in this country and Russia because they cannot find ways of avoiding humans as necessary.
6) Like lawsuits, honey? Just keep on recommending not trapping or otherwise getting rid of those coyotes, and soon people will be suing you in droves for what "your" coyotes are doing to them, their children, their pets, their livestock, and the area in general. I recommend a careful reading of Gary Larson's There's A Hair In My Dirt. Study it -- there's going to be a test afterwards.