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Originally Posted by Barefoot
Your "rung of the food chain" post makes sense to me. And I'm a "bleeding-heart animal lover".
I've been advocating that people need to be more responsible for the safety of their pets.
However when animals are overpopulated, their litters start starving to death.
They get desperate for food, and act in ways that are atypical for their species, like hunting during the day, etc.
I don't know what the answer is, and I believe leg traps are cruel, but I think you are right.
At some point we'll be forced to address the coyote problem.
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I am too and fully agree that there's got to be a better way than leg traps. Unless people are willing to agree that the growing population is or will be a problem nothing will get done other than an occasional trapper using leg traps or moving the unwanted animal to another area (which does nothing to solve the growth problem).