INTELLIGENT CARNIVORES LIKE COYOTES ARE LIKE US IN SOME WAYS, BUT THEIR LIVES ARE NOT LIKE OURS AT ALL.
HOW ARE THEY LIKE US? Parents teach their young ones what they need to know to survive. Coyote pups who grow up in a stable family where their parents teach them who their prey are and how to hunt them, do not view livestock as their food source. Coyotes who do not grow up in a stable family…those whose parents are killed when the pups are too young…..have not learned who their prey are, nor how to hunt them successfully…they are always hungry!
So you want to keep stable coyote families on your farm.You want them to eat their wild prey, and never get a taste of your domestic animals.
HOW ARE COYOTES’ LIVES DIFFERENT FROM OUR LIVES: STARVATION IS THEIR TRAVELING COMPANION! And this is especially the case with coyotes who do not live in a stable situation.
SO ~ PLACING ANY DOMESTIC ANIMAL PARTS OR DEAD ANIMALS OUT BEYOND YOUR PASTURE IS A VERY DANGEROUS UNDERTAKING. You are giving them a taste for your livestock! In this context, never allow anyone in your community to bait coyotes on your farm.
KEEP OUR COYOTES AND OTHER CARNIVORES WILD! THEY HAVE WORK TO DO IN THE ECOSYSTEM OF YOUR FARM.