Posted on 10/02/2013 12:25:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Princeton officials are considering whether to use licensed hunters and trappers to reduce the growing population of coyotes and foxes in the Ivy league town.
The number of complaints has been on the rise.
Animal control officer Mark Johnson tells The Times of Trenton people have been chased and a dog and a couple of cats were killed by coyotes.
Johnson says sharpshooters would likely be sent to certain wooded areas and fields to shoot and kill the coyotes.
“We would not like to kill everything, but we definitely want to lessen the population,” Johnson told the paper.
Princeton uses a similar method to control the deer population.
The Animal Control Advisory Committee plans to meet Thursday in hopes of making a recommendation to the town council.
Please make hunting raccoons legal....(hate them)
Good point!!
In Pa, coyote season is open year round with no bag limit. They can be hunted or trapped. Unlike NJ, PA has nearly 1 million hunters. We don’t have to call in the government to fix the problem.
Give it time.
I believe that’s 1080
Man I’ve got it bad the last few days! I hit 0 when I meant to hit 9 on another thread, and I hit 9 when I meant to hit 0 on this one!
Proofread, proofread proofread!
Compound 1080 does wonders on coyotes and wolves, where dogs are not present.
The coyotes weren't actually trying to catch the people, or they would have. They're very fast.
If people keep their pets indoors the coyotes will eat the pest animals and leave. They only become a problem when people feed them a steady diet of Fluffy.
It’s much too easy to allow hunters do what they do best and collect the revenues from hunting licenses. Instead, bureaucracy will dictate that “skilled sharpshooters” be HIRED to do the job...........
There's an even better reason they didn't. Prior to 1900 they were pretty much limited to SW US and Mexico. Since then they've expanded across almost all of N. America.
http://www.urbancoyoteresearch.com/About_Coyotes.htm
Illegal immigrants?
LMAO! In these rural areas, people transplanted from cities are cautioned to confine pets to their property, so that the coyotes and other predators keep the deer, raccoon, rat, etc populations to balanced levels. You are correct in saying that they will not chase their proper prey if presented with a buffet of soft, slow city pets...
Fawn, the site animal advocate actually hates raccoons????? Who woulda thought........LOL!
Most mammals, including people, are innately lazy creatures that will take the easier meal. It’s why you rarely encounter a fruit tree with ripe fruit less than 10 feet from the ground, somebody already grabbed the easy pickings. I live within a 1/4 mile coyote trot of a dry river, part of what we call the coyote highway system, and you can watch the natural ebb and flow of predator and prey, sometimes you see lots of rabbits, sometimes you hear lots of owls or see lots of scat, sometimes there’s lots of big roaches outside, sometimes there’s lots of big lizards. The two big lessons are: don’t make your pets part of the food chain, and don’t get too attached to the cute prey.
Any of the effective rodenticides like warfarin, red squill, compound 1980 and 1081 will do the trick.
Had 3 trot across the back yard yesterday...rabbit hunting...
Thinking about tacking a hide to the barn and see how that works.....
When the economy was good, we had too many deer, which meant that they were small, short-lived and undernourished-the same was true of raccoons, rabbits, etc-but a pet left out alone or running loose was guaranteed to be lost forever.
Since the economy has been bad, the deer and other critters are healthy again at lower population levels-the coyotes or resident mountain lion get the weak ones first, and range over much larger territories, and the few people who still live here don’t let their pets out. Much healthier for people and animals...
Been happening in my neighborhood in Connecticut,got another notice of a lost cat today.The police have warned residents about it.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, unscrupulous animal dealers were selling coyote pups to easterners as fox kits to be released for fox hunting.
That is how many believe the coyotes moved east so fast.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.