[cripplecreek]

"It is important that people recognize that coyotes are part of our ecosystem and that they have intrinsic value and ecological value," said Camilla Fox, the executive director of Project Coyote, a Larkspur nonprofit that consults with cities, ranchers and other groups on ways to live with coyotes without resorting to bullets, traps and poison.

In other words, convince them to accept the rule of our new canine overlords.

[Izzy Dunne]

Coexistance?

In San Francisco?

Hell, it's likely to be intermarrying before next year.

[Smokin' Joe]

Teach them to keep their distance or they will feed on your pets and eventually, your children.

The 'oh it's so cuuute!' factor will not change their nature one whit.

[Dallas59]

Everything is natural until one takes a chunk out of a hippy baby.

[PowderMonkey]

Just what San Francisco needs. A thriving population of pariah dogs. Feral canids running loose in any city inevitably become a major problem, as these “experts” will soon experience for themselves.

[stefanbatory]

Golden Gate Park? I’m sure Star Fleet wouldn’t mind if Scottie did some target practice with the warbird’s disruptors...

[bboop]

In my earlier ‘live and let live’ days, I TRIED co-existence: with snails, with rats (as long as they stayed in the yard), with spiders.

No more! Nature does NOT share. The snails wanted everything. The raccoons ate ALL my corn. The rats came into the attic.

Now it’s Scorched Earth Policy here — Snarol, the Rat Guy and his poison, smashing spiders. ‘Getting along’ is just plain stupid.

[blueunicorn6]

They should reintroduce wolves into SF.

[mkjessup]

Hell, I say move the upcoming ‘Rat convention to Golden Gate Park, that’s a win-win for America.

[Dusty Road]

Now this is a good coyote.

[Tupelo]

I wonder just where this ‘journalist’ has been. I have lived in Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Mississippi and Arizona and have seen or heard coyotes in all. The coyote is one of the most successful survivors in history. Wily can live darn near anywhere and probably does. I would guess he and his kind live in every one of the lower 48 and are doing quite well.
My guess is the writer was shown a coyote den in the park and was just overcome with emotion about the “poor displaced coyotes”. In the immortal words of a famous Jackrabbit, “What a maroon.”

[libertarian27]

...yipping wild predators drive humans and their decidedly un-wily Delicious pets out

There - fixed it.

[43north]

Read the article. The absolute cluelessness of these idiots is breathtaking.

[quadrant]

I live in SF and use GG Park frequently.
My Doberman is not afraid of any coyote.

[Carry_Okie]

how much time before roving packs of yipping wild predators drive humans and their decidedly un-wily pets out?

That, at least, is what the alarmists are asking, and the answer, according to the experts, is "never."

Coyote attacks prompt action in Griffith Park
After two people are bitten in less than month, trappers are called in and kill seven of the animals.
LA Times, September 21, 2009

This is a national problem with predators. Wildlife agencies see their monopoly to manage them as a way to power.

[Savage Beast]

"The presence of coyotes in the city is good for the ecosystem, city officials and wildlife experts said, even if a few feral cats go missing."

Or a few children either???

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Coyote-human coexistence urged as animals migrate

This kind of naive eco-babble is going to result in some coyote attacks on children and dogs. The people who settled this nation were far more familiar with wildlife than the eco-dilletantes of today and they made sure the wildlife didn't live in human inhabited areas for a reason.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

[GladesGuru]

Management of animals is best done by a man with a gun, not a predator with an appetite, no brain, and a propensity for killing frenzy behavior. Best if that man with a gun is not a gooberment trough feeder. Sell hunter permits for all populations needing “Direct Reduction”.

[EBH]

Fools....just fools....the coyotes won’t just breed between themselves...they’ll breed with domestic dogs too!

Fools...RABIES....
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Cleveland Metroparks officials have closed part of the North Chagrin Reservation after a pair of aggressive female coyotes bit a bicyclist and a pet dog over the weekend.

A Bath man’s Pomeranian dog recently suffered a vicious attack by what appears to be a coyote. The dog survived deep lacerations and blood loss and is recuperating with about 100 stitches.

A coyote has attacked a 3-year-old girl playing in her backyard in suburban New York, the second coyote attack on a child in the same suburb within four days.

A mother’s day in the park with her 7-year-old turned into a nightmare when she and her son were stalked by a pair of coyotes at Edison Woods MetroPark.

When three deputies arrived, the coyotes “acted aggressive and charged at them,” prompting the deputies to shoot, Capt. Paul Sigsworth said.