It is better to let a few worthless individuals die from animals attacks than to allow the peasantry guns.

Ask any Liberal, they'll tell you.

There were good results with the incentive of the bounty in reducing the population in our municipality and in Saskatchewan this last winter. Hopefully the bounty continues this next winter, as it has been obvious this summer that there are still significant numbers keeping our Scotch Collie and us awake at night.

Don't worry, the liberal are already on the case:

There is a reported wolf pack living in southern Quebec just ten miles from where this animal was killed. State, federal and provincial wildlife officials have known of the existence of this pack for several years-yet did nothing to protect animals that crossed the border. The state and federal governments need to be sued for their failure to adequately protect wolves in the northeast. A court order will probably be the only thing that will eliminate the current “coyote” killing policies that also advocate the killing of wolves.

http://wolves.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/90-pound-canid-wolf-shot-in-vermont/

The province has a bounty on them now, BUT this attack took place in a national park so you can guess where that goes. The out of place predator takes precedence over the tax payer paying for the place.

Time for the Parks Canada people to decimate the Cape Breton wolfote population. It would be simple, quick, and effective to license a bunch of trained bounty hunters. There really can't be coexistence in this park: Civilian visitors have no way to assess or mitigate the potential danger of these animals.

If Parks Canada don't wish to do this, issue an area closure of the entire park until they find a " humane " way to control the problem animals.

Mote interesting is the expansion of Coyotes far beyond their traditional range since they are no longer controlled by predation or hunting.

Mote interesting is the expansion of Coyotes far beyond their traditional range since they are no longer controlled by predation or hunting.

A wolf pack in the park would teach them coyotes a lesson or two.

Perhaps it was just an innocent mistake! This poor coyote may have thought she was dead already and was only fulfilling his role in nature as a scavenger. (/sarc)

.....and the granola-snapping back packing touristas too.

The wolf was the coyote's main predator. Seems the coyote win out in the evolutionary natural selection game by not being shy of man and robbing him rather than avoiding him.

Gus at 10:22 -- nice. Somehow I can see that decision coming out of Ottawa as the ideal solution. Case closed.

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yes, yes... the sky is falling.

two words, city mouse... bear... spray.

see... you're not smart enough
to defend yourself... nature is
gonna thin the herd.

gaia rules.

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Will somebody please tell the hippies to stop feeding the wildlife?

This is a tempest in a teapot actually. The urban granola gobblers and lisping envirotards will be all a-titter about ferocious coyotes and they will live in fear of them. They got bored with frightening themselves with global warming, so no they need to scream about coyotes.

I suppose if it makes those idiots stay at home, I it's probably a good thing.

Last night I was sitting outside having a smoke.

I could hear three coyotes in the area "talking" to each other.

Good thing the state I'm living in now has laws that allow mw to go into the bush with a handgun. Heh. I can go many places under open carry rules too. If I chose to.

Canadian unelected commiecrats know the laws are on the books in Canada. They won't allow that and use regulations to bypass legislation or violate other legislation and established common law.

That's Progress you can die from...

Say what you will about moonbats, but they
taste just yummy!

Bill is correct about the extension of predators beyond their natural range. I lived in Cape Breton in the late sixties and there were no coyotes there at that time, so this was not part of their natural range. Of course they took advantage of the building of the causeway like other mammals to gain access.

Seems the coyotes are "re-establishing" here in Southern Ontario. Some-how I doubt the climax Carolinian forest fostered these open country canines.

In my lifetime an unknown species has become common and the groundhog who prospered, despite severe shooting pressure has become rare.

In my youth groundhogs were common as dirt. 10-12 in a 10 acre field was common....they usually prefered meadow-crops. Foxes had a bounty but were elusive.

In the 60's there was an adaption from 22 rimfire to the centre-fire 22's.....as engagement ranges grew due to fields enlarging...we thought.
Groundhogs became more scarce and foxes were no longer heard...replaced by coyote vocalizations.

Now coyotes patrol farmsteads, rural residential in daylight, taking cats and small pets.
My old dog sustained puncture wounds this spring...the vet attributed it to a coyote attack.

Now we have sightings and physical evidence of bear hereabouts.

I suspect it is like 3rd world immigration and for the very same reasons.

Perhaps the best way to resolve these various problems is to put a bounty on Liberals/Dippers.
Put them on rusty ships and send them to Shri-Lanka.......

So there are a few Wile's about.What's the panic? Just do like any good redneck does.....take a leftie hiking/camping with you.While you are sitting around the fire,enjoying a cold one,the lefties about 50 feet away from that evil,Gaia destroying fire,will be putting Darwin's Law to good use....i.e. feeding the coyote/bear/cougar,etc. meanwhile keeping you safe! It's a win-win!!!!

PEI now has coyotes again, likely thanks to the bridge. I've posted previously, back when I first moved into the bush in BC, we were warned that bear and wolf attacks were almost always on menstruating females - and notice the age and sex of the victims in Cape Breton. That warning should be posted far and wide, but it's probably not politically correct, sexist and all that.

Alain, I am a born and raised Caper and in 86 I worked the Highlands for Inco doing a geological survey from the park boundy out for about 30 miles.

Spent months trapsing around the highlands. Lots of moose, deer, the odd black bear some of the smaller cats. Not even a hint of coyotes.

AtlanticJim, I observed the same types of wildlife as I travelled all over Cape Breton and recall people saying that raccoons got there by the causeway. It makes you wonder why it took the coyotes so long to discover the causeway and make it across; almost as though someone decided to import them on his own. Of course there is no way of knowing for sure.

Alain at 3:34 PM
[.......AtlanticJim, I observed the same types of wildlife as I travelled all over Cape Breton and recall people saying that raccoons got there by the causeway. It makes you wonder why it took the coyotes so long to discover the causeway and make it across; almost as though someone decided to import them on his own. Of course there is no way of knowing for sure.......]

Agreed! Here in SW Ontario after over a century of road and rail bridges across the Niagara frontier...we finally acquired Possums.....Did a breeding pair cross century old bridges or hitch-hike by road or rail? Or were they deliberately introduced?

We also have many confirmed sightings and physical evidence of Black Bears hereabouts.........

Oh well, the presence of dangerous wildlife here in SW Ontario, makes legal, access to an unsecured firearm and ammo .....deployable against the more likely encountered 2 legged predator......

If your not a predator, you're prey.

Welcome to the food chain.

Boy! I can't believe how everyone here has missed out on a solution to this problem!

It's pretty darned obvious the Federal and Provincial governments have to establish Coyote patrols,hundreds of 'em,and have them scattered about the Parks armed with pamphlets containing tips on "what to do if you encounter a mean animal"!

There's NOTHING that can't be fixed by creating a bureaucracy.

What do people expect when they're sleeping outside in the woods, outside their shelter? That's life, that's the world, that's nature...if you don't like it, stay in the city and risk it's dangers. It's real in the field.

"Time for the Parks Canada people to decimate the Cape Breton wolfote population."

Why? If you build it, they will come...and come, and come. Here's an idea, carry protection (bear spray, knife, gun..whatever you want) and don't sleep outside without shelter...it's not rocket science.

Just need a few roadrunners to thin the pack, and the Cape Breton Acme Sales rep will enjoy the increased business. Beep beep...

I think it's Bush's fault!!!!

One of the few things the last ( gutless ) Republican Congress did right was to permit valic concealed carry permit holders to do so inside the national parks.

Don't know about Cape Breton's policy on carrying firearms in the park, but the Parks Canada Yukon/Chilkoot Trail station in Skagway solemnly warns hikers to " Be Bear Aware " : 1.) hike in groups, 2.) never leave a pack unattended, and leave a clean, 3.) secure all food, toiletries, etc., immediately upon arriving in camp. ( I have personally seen the list, and will forward pictures upon request ).

The list ends there, and no mention of whether " bear insurance " is allowed, or caliber/gauge limitations thereon.

You might have thought the PC folks might at least would have added a 4th item to the list: 4.) trekking poles are recommended ( hint, hint, nudge, nudge ) or, more gothically, 5.) if a bear does attack, experience has shown that the hiker with a piece of bacon tucked in his toque usually forms the point of the attack.

Personally, and I'll gird the loins in preparation for a full frontal onslaught, it is indeed Darwinian when a lesser carnivore takes down a homosapien. Everyone should duly take note, leave the animals alone and move on. If we make the parks entirely safe for the amazing range of intellects that visit, we'll be left with nothing but squirrels and opossums. Squirrels might get targeted as well since they will scold if their home range is breached. Might damage those with fragile self esteem.

For example, there are regularly parents who take their kids in among the bison herds at Yellowstone and actually attempt to place their children on the huge beasts' backs. Now, do we want to decimate what remains of the bison? No. We should look to begin licensing human breeding possibly. Those folks should not be allowed to replicate themselves. When I was a kid we drove to Alaska when there was no interstate highway system. The Alaskan highway was gravel. When we'd come upon bear in the road which was nearly every day, my Dad would stop well back and Mom would break out the 8mm. We woke up after a night camping at a panning encampment along the banks of the Yukon with a half dozen moose looking for breakfast. The miners would slap them on the rump with the skillets and bang the skillets with their utensils [sic]. The moose couldn't care less. Dad hustled my sister and I into the '59 Ford wagon and strategized with the miners. We all came to the conclusions that breakfast would have to take place elsewhere, and so it did. Reasonable and rational. No one, including the animals, are hurt.

"Everyone should duly take note, leave the animals alone and move on."

Hear, hear!

"We should look to begin licensing human breeding possibly"

Haha..not a bad idea if it didn't inherently trespass on intimate personal rights. At the very least incorporating a course into the grade 12 curriculum on the basics of child care might be an idea.