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MARGINALIZATION OF THE LOWLY COYOTEFarmer pronounciation of coyote is often "coyotie," and us country dwellers have witnessed and all know the fortitude of the lowly coyote. We figure the coyote has been with us since the time of the dinosaurs. The species is pragmatically, impossible to eradicate. They have been defying eradication for centuries. They continually adapt and over populate in any area, including housing areas that have taken over their habitat. Big city dwellers have seen coyoties running across the city streets and have found them eating their dog's food and even devouring small pets to survive.
Breeding them with dogs has to be a forced activity, and once bred, the"dogotie" retains too much of their inherent wildness to make a pet. Isn't it odd a Darwinian explanation of species simply cannot be explained?
In Kansas, the ranchers love to buy used up greyhound racing dogs, and carry them in cages in the back of the "pickup trucks." Driving around their roads, if they spot a coyote, they'll run their trucks over fences and chase the coyote until they are close enough to pull the cabin release lever for the greyhounds. Then the farmers will watch as the greyhounds chase the coyotes down after which they check out the mince-meated carcus of the coyote.
Poisoning is effective at reducing the population, temporarily, but the darn coyotes will start having larger litters of pups. So, what can they do to keep coyotes out of the chicken coops or out of the pastures, mangling new-born sheep or calves? Well, ... the greyhounds and big dogs can keep them out of the lots or putting a mule or donkey, ... or even a goat in with the herd to kick the living day lights out of the foraging coyoties is a marginalization solution.
Marginalization seems to work the best. Contain the coyotes with strong fences or electric fences might be a creative solution. But, ... eradication of the coyotes is darn near impossible.
Farmers and ranchers meet at the Sizzlin' Sirloin and talk about their activities and rave on with their coyotie anecdotes. Marginalizing is tough and land-owners do strategic planning to foil the culprits. But, coordinating their efforts is a positive force against the cagie critters, ... not eradication.
A somewhat high-tech solution is trapping the smarties with a rabbit screaming recording as it attracts the coyote and the trap does its job.
Got coyotes? Coming up with a technological break-through on fighting the coyote, and you could make an entreprenuer's good living. Post us your best "coyotie" anecdotes here. Who knows, you may have the answer to radical Islam!
As I sit here writing this, I can hear the distant coyoties, ... howling at the moon and can make little distinction from our plans for the eradication of the coyote from the eradication of Islamic Extremists. How about Operation ELMO DROP, where our government buys millions of Love Myself Elmos, ... handed out by our soldiers to Iraqi children, to fight the religion's ugly teachings about marterdom and hatred, ... for Christmas!.
