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I know alot of people don’t want to hear this but I’m going to tell you anyway. The hundreds if not thousands of new coyote pups that were born this past April here in Georgia are now being trained by the Matriarchs to hunt, kill and become self sufficient. Starting sometime around September, maybe earlier, the young Male coyotes will be kicked out of the family group by the mother to prevent inbreeding. Most of the females are allowed to stay. These young inexperienced male coyotes must disperse throughout Georgia to find new territory and set it up as their own. “Isn’t that exciting!” Dispersal will be down major travel ways such as power lines, rail road lines, roads, major and minor creek bottoms and drainages, sewer trunk lines and any section of woods that winds it’s way between the thousands of subdivisions in the state. They will then find a mate and start their own family group. There will be a spike of sightings, many more pets and livestock will die due to this dispersal. Human/Coyote conflicts will increase as a result. A certain number of these male pups will be killed crossing roads or by other coyote family groups who do not accept them as they wander into their already established territories. No one, not even state wildlife biologist can give an accurate number on pup mortality but there will be some as their is every year. Evidently, it is not enough to stem the tide of increasing numbers of these predators dispersing into neighborhoods, cities such as Atlanta, local municipalities and rural areas. This is a phenomenon that happens every year around this time.
To put things in perspective, doe deer drop their fawns as well. The whitetail deer is the main wildlife food source for coyotes as well as rodents, mice, voles, squirrels....pretty much anything they can catch. There are 280,000 deer hunters in Georgia. Each year they take nearly 3/4 of a million deer out of the herd here in the State. In contrast, according to the DNR, there are only approximately 1500 residents licensed and/or Certified to Trap Wildlife and Furbearers in this state. So I hope you can see why we as Trappers are having such difficulty managing the Coyote population. And when I say we need the Cable Restraint to do a much better job, I am not ”blowing Smoke”. We need the CR’s and Footholds to use together since the CR’s have proven to have a 3:1 catch ratio over the Leghold traps. I have personally made a video and sent it to Governor Nathan Deal expressing my concern about the Overpopulation and lack of support from the DNR. I have been trying for over 3 years to get the DNR to listen to mine and other Certified Trappers’ concerns about this issue to no avail.
“Would you, the Public, please help the Trappers of Georgia by contacting the Governor’s office and demand that we be given the Cable Restraints so we may do our jobs without one hand tied behind our backs? You would be helping Us, Help You, with this situation that is getting worse every day. To be Blatantly Honest, without this tool, the cable restraint, we do not have a chance in Perdition of even to begin managing the coyote population.”
“If you watched my video on the Cable Restraints and how they work, you will understand how safe and humane they truly are. I live in a subdivision and would be more willing for a trapper to set the cable restraint inside my neighborhood rather than the foothold. It requires no lure or bait and will not send out a scent stream that could draw a domestic dog into the trap. You just find the trail the coyotes are walking and set it and let them walk into it and become caught. They are not choked out, just held. They are very selective and can be set by an experienced Trapper to exclude any other animal.
“The foothold trap does have it‘s place and that place is around the perimeter of your neighborhood, not inside of it. That way we have two opportunities to capture the predators coming from the properties adjacent to yours and roaming thru your subdivisions during the night.”
With this movement into subdivisions and cities, these coyotes will become Habituated to Humans and will lose their innate ”Fear of Man” they will then become like a Feral dog, very dangerous. You may laugh and that is fine, but I predict that Coyotes will kill a human here in Georgia in the next 5 years due to this Habituation. The sad part is that it will more than likely be a child. But, perhaps that is what it is going to take to wake the public up to the reality of the savagery of these Predators. It doesn’t matter that we are moving into their territories, clearing property and moving them around into populated areas all over the state. The real question is, what are we going to DO ABOUT IT?
“My Professional recommendation is if you are not going to hire a Professional Trapper to remove them, you better get a rifle/shotgun, learn to use it and start shooting every Coyote you see. Just make sure you have a safe background before you shoot. When you kill one, do NOT HANDLE IT WITH BARE HANDS. Use latex gloves. I wonder if anyone took the article I wrote concerning Hydatid tapeworm disease halfway serious? Might wanna reconsider if you didn’t, because the disease was verified in Coyotes and foxes in Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee in 1938. That’s 77 years ago and if you don’t think that disease is in Georgia thru regular dispersal and migration since then..............” I’m preparing to write another article concerning another parasitic tapeworm that was just verified in Georgia coyotes by the UGA Veterinary College Lab. According to the Lab, they do not have the expensive lab equipment to test for Hytadid here in Ga. Therefore, I have contacted another lab in a Midwestern state who does have the equipment and is willing to test coyote scat samples that I will take off of my trapline this year in Ga. We have got to kill a certain number of coyotes off each year in an attempt to prevent numerous diseases from breaking out and spreading thru the coyote population. Most of these diseases are Communicable to Humans and Pets. We don’t need people running around in a panic like their hair is on fire, but SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE and done now!” Shoot to kill every coyote you see. We also need Aerial Gunning, M44's, bring back Compound 1080, Strychnine, The radioactive rods from the Chernobyl and Fukashima disasters and a mini Nuke strike on numerous strategic locations around the state. I'm thinking an AC130 Gunship circling the state 24/7 on search and destroy as well.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=icwdm_wdmconfproc
I know alot of people don’t want to hear this but I’m going to tell you anyway. The hundreds if not thousands of new coyote pups that were born this past April here in Georgia are now being trained by the Matriarchs to hunt, kill and become self sufficient. Starting sometime around September, maybe earlier, the young Male coyotes will be kicked out of the family group by the mother to prevent inbreeding. Most of the females are allowed to stay. These young inexperienced male coyotes must disperse throughout Georgia to find new territory and set it up as their own. “Isn’t that exciting!” Dispersal will be down major travel ways such as power lines, rail road lines, roads, major and minor creek bottoms and drainages, sewer trunk lines and any section of woods that winds it’s way between the thousands of subdivisions in the state. They will then find a mate and start their own family group. There will be a spike of sightings, many more pets and livestock will die due to this dispersal. Human/Coyote conflicts will increase as a result. A certain number of these male pups will be killed crossing roads or by other coyote family groups who do not accept them as they wander into their already established territories. No one, not even state wildlife biologist can give an accurate number on pup mortality but there will be some as their is every year. Evidently, it is not enough to stem the tide of increasing numbers of these predators dispersing into neighborhoods, cities such as Atlanta, local municipalities and rural areas. This is a phenomenon that happens every year around this time.
To put things in perspective, doe deer drop their fawns as well. The whitetail deer is the main wildlife food source for coyotes as well as rodents, mice, voles, squirrels....pretty much anything they can catch. There are 280,000 deer hunters in Georgia. Each year they take nearly 3/4 of a million deer out of the herd here in the State. In contrast, according to the DNR, there are only approximately 1500 residents licensed and/or Certified to Trap Wildlife and Furbearers in this state. So I hope you can see why we as Trappers are having such difficulty managing the Coyote population. And when I say we need the Cable Restraint to do a much better job, I am not ”blowing Smoke”. We need the CR’s and Footholds to use together since the CR’s have proven to have a 3:1 catch ratio over the Leghold traps. I have personally made a video and sent it to Governor Nathan Deal expressing my concern about the Overpopulation and lack of support from the DNR. I have been trying for over 3 years to get the DNR to listen to mine and other Certified Trappers’ concerns about this issue to no avail.
“Would you, the Public, please help the Trappers of Georgia by contacting the Governor’s office and demand that we be given the Cable Restraints so we may do our jobs without one hand tied behind our backs? You would be helping Us, Help You, with this situation that is getting worse every day. To be Blatantly Honest, without this tool, the cable restraint, we do not have a chance in Perdition of even to begin managing the coyote population.”
“If you watched my video on the Cable Restraints and how they work, you will understand how safe and humane they truly are. I live in a subdivision and would be more willing for a trapper to set the cable restraint inside my neighborhood rather than the foothold. It requires no lure or bait and will not send out a scent stream that could draw a domestic dog into the trap. You just find the trail the coyotes are walking and set it and let them walk into it and become caught. They are not choked out, just held. They are very selective and can be set by an experienced Trapper to exclude any other animal.
“The foothold trap does have it‘s place and that place is around the perimeter of your neighborhood, not inside of it. That way we have two opportunities to capture the predators coming from the properties adjacent to yours and roaming thru your subdivisions during the night.”
With this movement into subdivisions and cities, these coyotes will become Habituated to Humans and will lose their innate ”Fear of Man” they will then become like a Feral dog, very dangerous. You may laugh and that is fine, but I predict that Coyotes will kill a human here in Georgia in the next 5 years due to this Habituation. The sad part is that it will more than likely be a child. But, perhaps that is what it is going to take to wake the public up to the reality of the savagery of these Predators. It doesn’t matter that we are moving into their territories, clearing property and moving them around into populated areas all over the state. The real question is, what are we going to DO ABOUT IT?
“My Professional recommendation is if you are not going to hire a Professional Trapper to remove them, you better get a rifle/shotgun, learn to use it and start shooting every Coyote you see. Just make sure you have a safe background before you shoot. When you kill one, do NOT HANDLE IT WITH BARE HANDS. Use latex gloves. I wonder if anyone took the article I wrote concerning Hydatid tapeworm disease halfway serious? Might wanna reconsider if you didn’t, because the disease was verified in Coyotes and foxes in Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee in 1938. That’s 77 years ago and if you don’t think that disease is in Georgia thru regular dispersal and migration since then..............” I’m preparing to write another article concerning another parasitic tapeworm that was just verified in Georgia coyotes by the UGA Veterinary College Lab. According to the Lab, they do not have the expensive lab equipment to test for Hytadid here in Ga. Therefore, I have contacted another lab in a Midwestern state who does have the equipment and is willing to test coyote scat samples that I will take off of my trapline this year in Ga. We have got to kill a certain number of coyotes off each year in an attempt to prevent numerous diseases from breaking out and spreading thru the coyote population. Most of these diseases are Communicable to Humans and Pets. We don’t need people running around in a panic like their hair is on fire, but SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE and done now!” Shoot to kill every coyote you see. We also need Aerial Gunning, M44's, bring back Compound 1080, Strychnine, The radioactive rods from the Chernobyl and Fukashima disasters and a mini Nuke strike on numerous strategic locations around the state. I'm thinking an AC130 Gunship circling the state 24/7 on search and destroy as well.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=icwdm_wdmconfproc
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