Dear Editor,
We, Coyote Protection Alliance, want to express our dissatisfaction with the mayor’s actions about coyotes. To protect our position, we want to give arguments that coyotes are not so dangerous as some people may think. The mayor’s plan, “a needless slaughter” as we call it, is directed to killing animals that cannot present any danger. We agree that there was one case when a coyote was diagnosed with rabies. But one example does not present the whole picture of events. During the same period, there were found 3 cases of dog rabid and 17 cases of raccoons rabid. These numbers did not push the government to begin the killing campaign against them.
Knowing the examples when coyotes damaged the personal property of people and injured children we would like to offer to search for some other ways out in the situation. The wide killing campaign against these animals is nothing more than a scare tactic of the government. It is impossible just to take and destroy the whole population of coyotes. If we reference history, we may find out that coyotes came here first and our, people’s, appearance should not destroy the balance of nature. We want to emphasize that it is we, people, occupied coyotes’ land and like severe conquerors want to destroy the native population.
Our Alliance understands that coyotes bring some inconveniences to people’s life. We do not just protest the mayor’s decision; we want to help to find the way out of the situation. First of all, what we want to offer is to catch coyotes and to take them to distant areas of the state. The mayor gives an argument to protect his plan that the coyote population is out of control. Modern technologies and resources allow us to put the coyote population in control.
The prevention of childhood injuries and damaging cars is in people’s hands. Drivers should drive their cars carefully in the areas of coyotes gathering, parents should watch their children better and do not allow their pets to run free. The hiring of Animal Management Inc. is a wasting of money. First, we consider their methods inhuman. Second, money, which the mayor wants to expand, could be used in more important cases. At last, state hunters could be hired: people can get a job and not so much money would be spent.
Sincerely,
Coyote Protection Alliance.