Critics try to ban coyote hunting in Nev.
By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal
Critics of coyote hunting contests hope to ban the controversial practice in Nevada, insisting it amounts to little more than wanton slaughter of wildlife.
Hunters counter that it is a legally protected sport that may help keep in check a soaring coyote population increasingly posing threats to livestock, pets and people.
Don Molde of Reno and Fred Voltz of Carson City have petitioned the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners for regulatory changes that would outlaw contests awarding cash or other prizes for killing coyotes.
Thats a NO NO for killing coyotes for contest ,Not right.
What a bunch of dummies. It has been shown repeatedly and scientifically that coyotes proliferate when hunted. When the alpha pair is killed then the whole pack breeds rather than just the alpha pair. This is such old news that one has to wonder why proliferation is still used as even a weak excuse to hunt coyotes.
What a great idea to kill off the coyote population! Then we can be infested by a burgeoning rodent population that will infest not only your gardens, but your home as well.
Stupid is as stupid does!
We just should NOT leave all the decisions up to the politicians. They do not know everything. And most of them are too lazy to do real research on whatever it is they’re voting on. If they had any ambition, they’d be making real money in the real world, instead of sucking off the taxpayers.
So Dog, are you suggesting that in Nevada it should be left up to the voting public of a like mind to you that voted the current GOP members that are a majority in both state houses AND the governor’s office?
Just sayin’!
Do not shoot the coyotes. They are part of the natural cycle of wildlife. I thought I lost the family of cottontails to the coyotes last year, but they are back! Or maybe they are the sons and daughters from last years young family. Coyotes serve a purpose in reducing rodents. Yes, they do kill cats and small dogs. So keep your furry friends inside. We live in a forest for cryin’ out loud and we need to act accordingly. Keep your pets and yourself safe!
Don’t shoot coyotes and don’t shoot bears. Live with the animals and don’t see them as a moving target or trophy to be mounted on your wall.
Plain and simple? Don’t kill them. Old Long Skiis
No, Bigs, I’m suggesting that if you’ve got a Dept of Fish & Game anyhow, maybe you ought to let them determine how best to manage their domain.
P.S. Coyotes take down big dogs too. They’ll even take down a deer. They do not need protection. I don’t care for trophy hunters, but wildlife management is necessary.
Dog, NDOW is a government agency, which you continue to rail against ANY government agency telling you what to do. With all due respect you are contradicting yourself, and the many anti government comments you post. And if your big dog is attacked by a coyote, is it the coyote’s fault or your’s? Because if you let your big dog, or little dog, run unsupervised with coyotes, who is to blame? I let my dogs run with coyotes ONLY under my supervision. If a person has a dog that they let out to run unsupervised than THAT dog owner is irresponsible and has no leg to stand on when blaming coyotes for their dog’s injuries OR death.
I said IF you have a dept. . .
Quit making stuff up about me contradicting myself. I don’t let my dogs run loose, either. But I’ve been packed up on by them on my street in broad daylight, walking my dogs on lead. So don’t tell me it’s my fault if they get attacked. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Dog, I’m sorry and I meant no disrespect towards you. BUT, I didn’t make anything up about your viewpoint on government and it’s agencies and how you perceive them, did I? You brought up the fact that a coyote could take a big dog down, not me. And as a word of advice when dealing with coyotes, take the upper hand and walk OR run right at them and they will turn and run. Show them that YOU are the dominant entity and they will ALWAYS concede. Wild animals can only understand dominant behavior, because that is how they operate. Well, maybe except brown bears, but we don’t have those around here.
Bigs, I get it.
I do have a bad attitude toward our government and its overabundance of overlapping agencies, rules, regulations, and their ability to steal our money and run rough shod over our lives.
But I try to make points about how, since all those agencies DO exist, and we DO pay them, we ought to make them do what they are being paid to do for us. Instead of letting them hand off responsibility/blame to others whenever things get complicated or it becomes politically expedient.
It just keeps appearing more and more that every time somebody doesn’t do their job, we give them MORE powers, more money, or create another layer of bureaucracy to make OUR lives even more complicated.
With regards to coyotes, particularly here, they are not afraid of people. They have no reason to be, as we have never shown them that humans are a threat. I did go in once to grab a border collie who was surrounded and being attacked. It wasn’t my dog. And I got him out, but it wasn’t something I ever want to have to do again.
Dog: Dating back to 1972 blue ribbon panel of scientists (Cain Report) to 1997 with a similar group of top scientists (National Resource Council) analyzed the effects of the control programs and excessive predator hunting in Alaska to a more recent publication of a control program in Idaho where they removed a considerable number of coyote and cougar in a rather large area, plus hundreds of other scientific publications, have consistently found that predator control programs and predator hunting programs have no long term benefit. In fact some long term research from Washington State has found that cougar hunting actually exacerbates livestock predation, not lessens it. So the evidence is clear, at least scientifically – the killing contest serve no real purpose other then some individuals seeking pleasure in killing lots of coyotes. IMHO, a sick practice that makes quite a number of hunters I know sick – they are clear, this practice should go away and has no business of existing.
Rick
Here’s our coyote story …
When we lived in Reno-Sparks a few years back we had a half-acre with a six-foot wooden fence around the entire property. We were the last house on the end of a street that backed up to about 200 acres of open space, but in a full-blown within the city limits neighborhood nonetheless. In the backyard one afternoon, with zero warning, I watched suddenly as a coyote pulled down a fence board, poked its head through and carried off one of our two mini Dachshunds. While I grabbed a shovel and sprinted toward the fence, a second coyote poked through and grabbed the second Dachshund. Fortunately it couldn’t get the dog turned to fit through the hole and dropped it, full of bite marks and badly bleeding. As I arrived at the fence, a third coyote stuck its head through but retreated just in time to miss being whacked by my swinging shovel. Before tending to the dog I quickly peered through the hole to see the three coyotes sprinting off in the distance. This all happened over the course of about 20 seconds.
Fast forward to a few days later. While our dog remained in recovery at a local vet, our attention turned to dealing with the threat. You see, while attacking our dogs was horrible, it would have been much worse had one of our two toddler children been playing at the fence line in their own backyard. So, we placed a call to the Nevada Dept. of Wildlife.
Their immediate answer? Kill them. First, they offered to loan us some wire cage traps, which we could place on our own in the field behind our fence. When I asked what we would do once we trapped a coyote, their answer was to drag the traps to the nearby three-foot deep creek and simply toss them in, with the trap door still locked, and retrieve them a couple days later. Their second suggestion was to bait and shoot them. When I reminded them that we lived in a neighborhood, they said to be careful, and if a sheriff showed up that we could say we had NDOW’s blessing.
We chose option 2, and I made it a point to go around the neighborhood to tell my neighbors what we were going to do. Of the 10-plus people I talked to, not one had a problem with our solution. I called two friends and the three of us spent countless hours sitting atop ladders with our .22’s and sub-sonic ammo, peaking out over the top of our fence line. We even recorded the sound of a distressed cottontail off the internet and put in on a portable CD player out in the field. Regrettably, we never got one to come into range …
I guess the message here, if there is one, is that perspective is everything. I’m not in this for sport, trophies or prizes. For me, it’s all about coexistence. But once it becomes a true threat to my family, and reasonable precautions have been taken, that’s where I draw the line.
HAHA, Dog was caught in a big circlr jerk. She wants her cake and eat it too!!
Leave the coyotes alone.
Nature you are very crude and classless
Reloman, she said pretty much the same thing to me just reciently but im the bad guy, hummmm, go figure. I guess maybe I should have just let her eat some humble pie without mentioning it. But she certainly wouldnt extend me that courtesy, or you for that matter…
Reloman: Can’t say it better than that. Some folks on this blog are constantly attacking other people and calling names, and then when everyone begins to hate them, their like, “WTF, why doesn’t anyone like me? I’m such a nice person!”
?!? You obviously only reply snarkly to those YOU disagree with. Look in the mirror and see part of the problem. I actually dont give a rats patootie what dog or her ilk think about me or my opinion. I think you are in that catagory too! I bet if it was me contradicting myself in this blog (which i have done)there would be 4 or 5 trolls pointing it out. You guys dish it out so readily but seem to get so gobsmacked when you s cre w up. Waaaa
‘ Some folks on this blog are constantly attacking other people and calling names,’
Remember that one story where you did that half a dozen times? That is why you aren’t taken seriously.
What about people who use multiple names to post supportive replies to their own comments?