You feel like the indians? You are obivously not very smart. Do you think the indians would have put up with predation? Do you think they let the hoppers and mormon crickets eat their corn crops, or bears raid their food supply? Wolves take their Horses? No I do not know where people get this idea that indians were great conservationist. They used the land and animals just as we did. They wasted meat all over the place, they practiced poort range management, etc. Seriously, the fact of the matter is that no animals should be allowed to damage or hurt humans. Since you think it is mans fault, I will ship you all the plague carring prarie dogs, the calf eating coyotes, the biting rattle snakes, home robbing bears, childern eating lions, lyhme carring ticks, skin irritating chiggers, etc. You can deal with them since you have invaded thier territory.
This has nothing to do with respect. I respect the animals I hunt, I also respect the animals I raise. IN my opinon my animals that are raised by my hands get higher respect that a coyote. Do I think they all should die? Nope, but I sure will not let any live in my back yard ifthe pose a threat to me or my family.
Dog hunter,
Your right you never know if your killing the "calf eater or not, but if you shoot on site you will keep the population down, or atleast afraid of man enough that the problems will be less. I know that hunting is not the best way to control problem yotes, but if they are out on my property with my livestock, they die. I know a ranch that thought like you, hey if we do not shoot the yotes then we will loose less sheep. After 3 years their mortality from predation almost doubled. Could they ever kill all the yotes? Nope but there was obivously a correlation.
Also in some states all you can do with ease is shoot. In Colorado state law make it difficult for a any trapping.
