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So, ‘tigers‘ in Dallas. Coyotes in NY. This is what happens when critters aren’t discouraged from coming around.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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July 21st, 2010 at 10:15 am
I flew into Dallas last January. As the shuttle bus was taking me to the rental car terminal, the bus driver pointed out a coyote that would sit under a “tree” (I think you call them a scrub oak down there) beside the road.
I asked the bus driver why no one shot the animal. It was as if I suggested that someone kill his housecat.
Those people simply amaze me. Animals need to be shot. The coyote and bobcat problem is just like the beginning of the hog problem in Texas.
I asked “why not pay bounties for hog ears?” It was like I was from another planet the way they stared at me. And now the hogs are in charge in many places in Texas.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:35 am
I bet the bobcats and coyotes are looking around at the housing developments covering their old habitats and saying the same thing right before they attack someone—”This is what happens when humans aren’t discouraged from coming around.”
🙂
July 21st, 2010 at 10:36 am
LOL. i doubt any live bobcats ever lived where Dallas was.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:37 am
Coyotes are found throughout the lower 48. Their response to “discouragement” in the form of shooting them is to multiply more rapidly.
The better solution is knock it off with the ridiculous suburban sprawl and rebuild our cities and give people tax incentives to live in them instead.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:21 pm
“I bet the bobcats and coyotes are looking around at the housing developments covering their old habitats and saying the same thing right before they attack someone—”This is what happens when humans aren’t discouraged from coming around.”
A valid point…that being said its unreasonable to ask land owners to cede their land back to the critters.
Many people seem to forget that human’s interaction with the natural world is very much natural biologically speaking. Sometimes this is good for some species, sometimes bad.
I certainly don’t think populations of rats, mice, pigpens, and seagulls among others would be quite so robust if they didn’t have human infrastructure to survive on.
Hell I suspect if it wasn’t for the introduction of falcons into urban areas that animal would still be very rare indeed in this country.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Late last week there was this in another part of town…
Stay for the video. No fear.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/entertainment/pets/Bobcat-spotted-roaming-Dallas-neighorhood-98624374.html
July 21st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Late last week there was this in another part of town…
Stay for the video. No fear. Well, except from the residents. “Do SOMETHING!”
http://www.wfaa.com/news/entertainment/pets/Bobcat-spotted-roaming-Dallas-neighorhood-98624374.html
July 21st, 2010 at 2:26 pm
A researcher at Hopkins here in Baltimore who studied our rat infestation here in this trash ridden town came to the conclusion that the only thing holding down our rat population is that the rats in this town literally don’t have any where else to tunnel. There are some city blocks with tens of thousands of them.
Yeah, they’re doing pretty well thanks to us.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Really need to read past page 1 on the “Coyotes in NY” article. It is about encroachment but a different kind.
Concluding paragraph:
J
July 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
In early 2008 a Cougar was killed by the Chicago Police.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080417-cougar-shot.html
July 21st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Around here, it’s illegal to kill bobcats and coyotes unless they threaten people. Bobcats and coyotes help keep the mice and rat populations down so they are beneficial to the environment. The dangerous creatures are the mountain lions.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Frankly I see more danger from the neighbor’s dogs than any coyotes. I’ve lived around coyotes all my life even when people claimed they weren’t around. My uncle shot and still shoots several a year. The only time I was ever attacked in the woods was by a neighbor’s dogs. Unfortunately for them I was hunting and they “disappeared.”
I saw more than a few coyotes when hunting and I could see no reason to bother them. Well, not to mention it scares off the deer if you waste ammo on coyotes.
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:51 am
– A tiger? … in Dallas ?!
:p