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Originally Posted by Sgt Ed
In the rest of Florida they are open season, if there is one in TV can you shoot it safely.
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You quoted me, so I feel like I must address your question before this thread goes haywire.
First of all, my point was to be aware of coyotes and not to put your pets in danger of becoming dinner.
AND before you write me off to being anti-hunting, that is a wrong assumption. There are reasons for hunting that I respect, like to put meat on the table or in the freezer or a farmer needing to protect livestock. I have a friend whose dad owned a big farm and pastured a lot of livestock. When he was in his pastures, he always carried a gun. He had no mercy on coyotes because coyotes were a real threat to his livestock. (The area also had coydogs show up once in a while. Those critters are rare and have no sense, at all, no fear of humans. He took out a couple of those, too. But he was a farmer who farmed two thousand acres.)
You see, I have common sense UNLIKE someone who wants to hunt coyotes in The Villages.
“Open season”? HAH! That statement is misleading. You left out the part about “private property” or “permission of the land owner” and “checking with the authorities” — and the type of weapon to be used is also specified — but none of those things would be allowed in this highly populated, densely built TV. Even asking such a question reveals a lack of thought.
So? There would be no permission ever given in TV. That would be insane. AND the other obvious take on this is do Villagers have bullets or arrows that stop at the property lines of our postage stamp lots.
You have hit a hot button with me. Some friends of ours built a house on 5 acres about a half hour from the city. One day she looked out her window to see 4 trespassing morons clutching their shiny new guns while walking abreast — hunting birds……
This kind of thing happens, rather often, in areas near a city where idiots live and think they can get guns and drive less than half an hour to areas that are developed but the homes are on properties that look big to them. These are the people who call ponds lakes, too.
And don’t even think about bow-hunting. Arrows do not belong in developed, populated areas either.
I was not intending to start my day (year) today on TOTV. But when I saw this post, and it quoted me, I had to respond and make myself perfectly clear.
Do not even think about hunting coyotes in The Villages. This is exactly the kind of thinking that gives a bad name to actual hunters who know what they are doing and why.
Boomer
PS: I apologize to our OP, our wonderful, gifted, resident photographer who so generously shares his work with us. My post about pets who had been caught by coyotes in TV was intended as a reminder to pet owners to be careful. I am so sorry I brought out the idiotic idea of hunting in TV.