Chicken coop and pen

[nhengineer]

Well Frank S., thanks for the primer on coyote control.

The only thing I dislike about coyotes is their taste for cats. I could never kill any animal unless my life or the life on another human was in question. I'm not really happy with the increase of coyote population but I still would never harm one unless as described above.

I don't necessarily agree with the The Humane Society of the United States premise either. Not much has changed here where I'm living in that last 35 years. I've lived here on the outskirts of a quite small city since the 70's and our population hasn't changed much at all in that time. The coyote population, on the other hand, has changed significantly. More likely the reason is the absence of their most hated enemy, the grey wolf that had been effectively eliminated from our New Hampshire forests by (so called) 'sportsman hunters' a century ago.

It has been gradual but, over the last hundred years or so, the coyote population has increased to a point now it is not prudent to wander too far into the woods alone without some kind of personal protection. If we had left natural selection alone, there would be catamount (cougar), wolves, bear, deer, moose and hardly any coyotes at all. Instead there's only one cougar, a hundred or so deer, a few bear, hardly any moose and a ****-load of coyotes.

That's right Frank S., I'm totally against hunting except if you can provide irrefutable proof that you or your family will starve unless you're allowed to kill wild animals. We have plenty of domesticated animals who are born, bread and specifically raised to feed us. There is no need to hunt wild animals except to satisfy an inexcusable lust for blood.

I have no doubt that there will be a response or two to my comments above.