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Humans are a bigger risk to coyotes than coyotes to humans. > It would be better to remove the coyotes before this happens. following this logic, we should ju
by slwvx 1y ago
Humans are a bigger risk to coyotes than coyotes to humans.
> It would be better to remove the coyotes before this happens.
following this logic, we should just kill all coyotes. We did this to lotsa other species, I hope we've stopped that.
- bpodgursky 1y agoIn cities where parks are the few places kids can play outdoors yes that is a reasonable idea.
- skeeter2020 1y agoI wouldn't worry about this; pretty rare that today's parent lets their kid farther away than arms length!
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- triceratops 1y ago> we should just kill all coyotes At least relocate them out of cities. Why would you ever want a predator that large living inside a city? Let a dog, a domesticated animal that we trust to live in our homes with our children and babies, off-leash in a city and people lose their minds. But coyotes move in and everyone's chill? Wtf
- rufus_foreman 1y agoWhere I live you can shoot coyotes in any season with a hunting permit. That's chill? OK then, let's be chill about off-leash dogs and apply the same rules to them.
- triceratops 1y agoThat's not what the story is about. But you sound like you want to shoot dogs.
- rufus_foreman 1y agoDo I? You sound like you think it's OK to let your dog run off-leash.
- triceratops 1y agoMy suggestion was relocating the coyotes, not shooting them. I'm ok applying that rule to off-leash dogs and in fact, that's what happens. They're trapped and taken to a shelter for the owner to reclaim. They're eventually put down if unclaimed. You suggested shooting dogs. Seek help.
- rufus_foreman 1y agoWhere do we relocate the off-leash dogs to? This interests me. We catch a dog off-leash in a park and the dog gets relocated to...where?
- triceratops 1y agoI updated my comment because I figured a troll like yourself would ask. And I was right.
- rufus_foreman 1y agoDogs kill orders of magnitudes more humans than coyotes. Orders of magnitude more children are killed by dogs than by coyotes. Chill, dude. I don't know if we should kill dogs. That's not my call. But at least relocate them out of cities? Would you ever want a predator as large as a dog living inside a city? I wouldn't, I'm a cat person.
- triceratops 1y agoCows kill the same order of magnitude humans as dogs. And they don't even live in cities, near people. Time to end cattle farming? I'm ok with dogs in cities, even if they're predators. They're man's best friend.
- skeeter2020 1y ago>> At least relocate them out of cities. Ah yes, make it someone else's costly problem and let me feel good about myself because it's such a humane solution.
- triceratops 1y ago> make it someone else's costly problem Move them to a national forest and they'll be the local wildlife's problem. > let me feel good about myself because it's such a humane solution Yeah actually because it is humane and I do feel good about myself.
- andoando 1y agoA lot of cities have stray dogs roaming around
- southernplaces7 1y agoCoyotes are already slaughtering pets in places where their population reaches saturation levels thanks to access to so much easy food. It's not a hypothetical, it's something that actively happens and in such places, attacks on little kids are not a miniscule risk. No, you don't have to kill all coyotes to control a specific population of them in a particular place in way that actually re-balances a completely unnatural saturation in their numbers. There's nothing grotesque about recognizing the reality of these being urban spaces in which it might just not be a good idea to have many thousands more 40-kilo predators wandering around than would ever be natural even if the area were totally uninhabited by humans.