The root cause of coyote attacks is not shooting coyotes.
Police are searching for a coyote they believe was involved in separate attacks on 2-year-old girls in Arlington Sunday.
The first attack happened around 5:40 p.m. on Epping Street. Police said a 2-year-old girl was in her yard when she was bitten on the back and dragged by a coyote.
About 10 minutes later, a second incident was reported on Summerhill Road. A 2-year-old girl was scratched by a coyote while she was in her yard, police said.
Before you go blaming the coyotes, we really need to try to understand things from their point of view. We need to get some coyote counselors in there to talk to the coyotes and try to get at the root causes of their sub-optimal behavior.
“Dingo got yo baybay”
That’s a long, complicated, list of recommended “coyote hazing” techniques … I especially liked the recommended ‘months’ you should NOT engage in “coyote hazing” … please check your calendar first.
Like the Muslim sword-Fighter scene in Indiana Jones … just shoot the damn things.
Just get everybody a pet road runner.
My laugh for today! Thanks! I needed that!
With an ACME anvil … gruesome way to dispatch a bothersome coyote
The original versions of the Brothers Grimm stories were downright scary by design. Ol’ Uncle Walt did us no favours sanitizing them for mass consumption.
What Kate said!
I think this one is WB, not Disney (though Disney did buy WB).
I am leaving ACME catalogues in my yard for the coyotes.
When that happens, the coyotes are either hungry or they never learned to fear humans.
I remember a personal example of the latter, but that was for deer or elk. Many years ago, my parents and I were on vacation with some relatives. We were in Jasper at the time and, one evening, we were driving along a road when we saw the critters standing nearby. People stopped and were lined up to feed them and I, being a young lad, asked if I could as well.
I was given some pieces of chocolate and, when it was my turn, one animal licked them out of my hand.
Looking back, it was a dumb thing to do. The chocolate probably didn’t do them any good but, worse, coming up so closely to them like I did gave the beasties the wrong impression about humans.
By comparison, this past winter, I had deer walk across my front yard, looking for food. I left some leftover alfalfa and put some in the back alley on the other side of my fence. Sure enough, one evening right after sunset, I was visited by a buck and two does. I stood in my back yard, well away from them, and watched as they helped themselves.
By doing things that way, they got something to eat and they learned that I was friendly, but also willing to keep them at a safe distance.
My dad used to do that only he’d get to the point where they would eat out of his hands. Come deer hunting season he’d buy his tag, carry a hammer out to the alfalfa, whack one on the head really hard, put his tag on it and we’d have venison for dinner.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/fairytales-versus-disney-adaptations
Read through the TRUE story of Sleeping Beauty. Yikes! Some stories desperately need a Disney sanitizing …
The sanitizing of Sleeping Beauty began before Disney. Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name is actually quite tame compared with the original story.
It forgot about the original Goldilocks. The original Goldilocks paid for her theft in, and vandalism of, the Three Bears’ house. It wasn’t pretty.
I used to do a skit about the REAL story of Goldilocks for a non-denominational Christian High School Youth Group I led. In all the most ‘Revenant’ gruesome detail. It was funny as hell … with no survivors. The repetitive tag line … “It’s a REAL WORLD, kiddies”
I’m trying to think of a single problem faced by civilization not linked to encouraging animals to see us as a cheap source of food—and to breed until they far outstrip the food supply they could realistically obtain by hunting and scavenging in their native habitat.
Nothing comes to mind.
I have done coyotes a great favour. I have shot and kill a half dozen in my life and have missed as many or more. They have retained their fear of people. Back in the day we used to have a gun in the truck. Today a fascist pig Mounties will put your ass in jail for packing heat.
Every HS kid used to have a gun rack, complete with a utility tool (rifle). That was before our cultural degeneration … and HS kids would shoot each other given half a chance.
PS … in our local news:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/31/aptos-high-placed-on-lockdown-after-stabbing/
Hint: Illegal Mexicans and Central American “students”, err “dreamers” … thanks Newsom!
Pro Tip: so few graduate HS anyway … so why infect our schools with this scourge?
But – but – but, a washed up rock star has the answers to all our coyote problems: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/stanley-park-coyotes-vigil-bryan-adams
Stupid people will always see animals as our superiors. Anytime they can approach and feed any animal validates their pitiful existence as being accepted by superior beings. In their minds, hawks and gophers will have five-o’clock tea together every day.
Animals have their own way of doing things and we can best help them by leaving them alone.
A number of years ago, a raptor killed something in our neighbourhood and took it over to the roof of the rental office of our apartment complex. It started having its supper when many of the local magpies swooped down and began attacking it, encouraging it to go elsewhere.
I watched the whole show from my balcony well above the scene, so I knew what was going on.
The magpies made quite a racket and they upset one of my fellow tenants, who, from the ground, didn’t have the entire picture. It seemed that they disturbed her late-afternoon beauty sleep, or some such thing, and she started throwing rocks at them.
I was tempted to go downstairs and explain to her what was going on. The magpies weren’t making noise for their own enjoyment. They were defending their territory from what they saw as a potential threat and, for all I knew, the raptor’s meal was one of them.
Some people have no understanding whatsoever.
By the way, I’ve got a number of tall trees in my yard at my house in B. C. I’ve got a variety of birds, including sparrows, magpies, crows, and jays. They can make quite a din when they start arguing with each other.
But, on my turf, all wild critters are welcome.
In my rural community we generally shoot coyotes on sight. Every night I can hear packs of them singing all around me. I have seen a coyote once in all the years I lived here and he was running away from me as fast as he could go. Wolves and bears around here tend to be a bit bolder. They look at you and then run like crazy.
L – Signs of the apocalypse:
1. Priority, coyote protection or the protection of small children ?
2.Civilian disarmament allows the government to decide which is the more important.
Natural, inherent individual human rights are not part of the tyrant’s plan, ever.
Pagan worship, sacrificing humans to placate animal deities violates Judeo/Christian values.
The destruction of Western Civilization is a step by step process. The above 2 steps are among a
long staircase leading to the very hot place.
When I lived in Vancouver in the seventies Stanley park was enjoyed on numerous occasions but one thing that kind of turned me off was the large number of rats present that seemed to get bolder every time I visited there. Coyotes flourish where food is plentiful. Less rats less coyotes or that seems to be the way it works out here. When mouse populations increase so do their predators.