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Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents
Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control says a coyote recently spotted downtown is part of a program designed to monitor the rodent population. "The animal has the run of the Loop to help deal with rats and mice," He said no one has called today to complain. “He’s not a threat. He’s not going to pick up your children,” Block said. “His job is to deal with all of the nuisance problems, like mice, rats and rabbits.”
Wouldn't it be nice to tell the public BEFORE you let the coyotes run wild?
Oh, and by the way, we had to release some tigers to deal with the bugroeoning coyote population....
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This is actually great. I sincerely wish Pennsylvania would culture a few nice wolf populations to control the deer. I'm tired of dodging them with my car.
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One neighbor of mine watched a coyote carry off her miniature dog, and when coyotes start being sighted, the Missing Cat posters start appearing.
sort of small, furry creature, say one with a long furry tail, specifically bred for this purpose over the past several hundred years that people wouldn't mind seeing around... Maybe one that enjoys drinking milk and- ah hell, screw the sarcasm. Why didn't they just use cats??
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If they have the choice between a scrawny rat or a fat cat they'll take the fat cat. I live in an urban centre, near a golf course and have heard how the local grounds keepers occasionally clean out the cache where the golf course coyotes discard the things they cannot eat, collars, halters, dog tags, that sort of thing. We have a constant posting of lost or missing small dogs and cats in our area.
Our city has taken a co-habitation stand with the coyotes which means that they won't take action against them. However, with our long range forecast for this winter being what it is I expect that having the coyotes starting to circle the playgrounds and schoolyards, licking their chops at the thought of taking some kindergarten through 2nd grader away might change that stance. I hope it won't take having some children actually killed but the government will do what it thinks is right, whether it is or not.
There's an animal expert at the local university that's spoken up on the matter and says they should simply be hunted down and killed in the city. They're not endangered. They are a danger and they will continue to be a danger even if they are moved to a new location since they will find their way back to familiar (that means urban) environments.
More and more I find this quote from the Tick (comic book/ cartoon character) appropriate, "You're not going crazy in a sane world, you're going sane in a crazy world."
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/luckycoyote.asp
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“He’s not a threat. He’s not going to pick up your children,” Block said.
What an idiot. Coyotes kill pets, and evidence from the Carolinas indicates they are now affecting deer populations by decimating the survival rates of fawns. Coyotes are dangerous, and they attack humans. There were 142 attacks on humans between 1960 and 2006. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coyotes-suburban-attacks
Coyotes have spread naturally to all lower 48 states because of declines in wolf populations. Another interesting tidbit is that the coyote is the only predator in North America whose recorded population has NEVER decreased, only increased. Why someone would give such an adaptable predator a leg up when it is doing fine is completely beyond me.
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The whole point of the coyotes is to get rid of rodents.... so any cats they kill is just part of the job.