I was watching a doc on the coyotes grabbing small dogs on leashes in Stanley Park.
Coyotes naturally would be controlled by wolves and alike as proven with the reintroduction of wolves in Yellow Stone.
They will continue to push the boundries unless controlled.
I am very thankful to those who hunt coyotes, wolves, bears and cats although it is not something that interests me. I have seen more preditors in the last couple years than in the past twenty.
While driving with my son looking for grouse I told him to take a good look at a cougar crossing the road as he may never see another. Except for a couple miles down the road when another walked out.
Both walked out onto the road, stopped and walked slowly off. One was less than a hundred yards and walked up the road away from us as we creaped along behind him for a couple hundred yards.
I wanted to show him the tracks so I drove up to where we last saw him. I was hanging out the window looking for the tracks and out he comes again only 50 yards in front of the truck.
This was just west of Rimbey not out in the mountains.
Leave these critters alone and people are going to get hurt.
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