Coyote Hunting....ethics?

Evan14

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I've been out with my friends a few times when they have hunted yotes. They have a use for the pelts though and are able to skin their quarry quite easily. At the moment there are roads in my community with no pets left, and livestock claims are more than double that of years past. (85,000 dollars last year in a town of 4-500 people.) Family members have told me that they have seen packs running down deer while out walking the dog. and not packs of 6...packs of 12-15. its getting pretty nuts.

My grandfather used to keep them at bay on our properties but he no longer has the eyesight or steady hands to shoot. No one else has their PAL or has interest in getting one. So my question is...if i have no use for the coyotes pelts would it be unethical for me to go out and kill them just for the sake of culling their numbers on my property. There are 4 dens that we know of on our land. and i'm fairly confident i could take out 4-5 coyotes a day quite easily for a while.

I'm thinking i will start out soon and in the meantime ask around for someone who wants the pelts and after i kill them i can let that person take care of the rest? I just don't want to feel like im wasting anything.

thanks for any input :)
 
People just kill them to kill them to keep populations low all around. If you're keen on not wasting the pelts, I'd look into a group(natives?) or some kind of store/agency that's willing to take them off your hands(in a legal manner, not sure about the legalities there).
 
I don't use the pelts and have no ethical qualms about shooting them for the sake of reducing their numbers. If the pop. is out of hand, deal with its as you would gophers.


But other "you should eat what you kill " types might find it ethically wrong, but each to there own.
 
Yanni_S said:
People just kill them to kill them to keep populations low all around. If you're keen on not wasting the pelts, I'd look into a group(natives?) or some kind of store/agency that's willing to take them off your hands(in a legal manner, not sure about the legalities there).
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In manitoba you need a trappers license to sell or even take multipule yotes, so unless you give them to a trapper and royalties are to be paid, i would just kill them and be done with it.

If your in southern mb, id be interested in the pelts :D
 
We don't own a farm ourselves but one of the farmers' land we use has sheep(caged/fenced off) but a few got near them last year. He has a massive Greek sheepdog, which killed 2 coyotes and the 3rd got away injured but they did get a little chunk out of his shoulder.

As well as another spot sometimes has some, but their fairly well controlled there. One day last October while bow hunting for deer, all of a sudden there was about 15 shots in under 20 seconds. Sounded probably half a km away, and heard some howls.

GIGGIDY said:
I don't use the pelts and have no ethical qualms about shooting them for the sake of reducing their numbers. If the pop. is out of hand, deal with its as you would gophers.


But other "you should eat what you kill " types might find it ethically wrong, but each to there own.
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If someone wants to eat them, I'll donate them any coyote meat we kill. :eek:

And definitely agree to get some out of the way if too many around. The bigger the packs the more dangerous they'll get. And they'll just start looking for new sources of food to feed their increasing numbers(livestock, pets, possibly a person if desperate).
 
I live in toronto right now, but the land my family owns is an hour east of ottawa in mallorytown, i'm going back for the holidays and figured i could get some yote hunting in, i'm sure my grandfather knows someone who would be intersted in the pelts, i'll hit him up tonight.
 
Rod3nt said:
In manitoba you need a trappers license to sell or even take multipule yotes, so unless you give them to a trapper and royalties are to be paid, i would just kill them and be done with it.

If your in southern mb, id be interested in the pelts :D
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i used to live in winnipeg and thats where i had my first coyote hunting experience haha, if my friends didnt keep theirs i'd tell em to send them down your way haha
 
A&Shuntr said:
Need help? :D
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well the land i'm talking about is in your area haha, im sure once i get back home help could be used! here's a link about the problem from a year ago...it hasn't gotten better. the area they mention as the biggest problem is ALL owned by my uncle and grandfather so we can kill away!

http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2269758&archive=true
 
Shoot all you see. You in Ontario I'll help ya. They are thinned out well at my place.
If you don't have a use for them leave em in the field good fertilizer and in the dead of winter they will get ate.
Farmers are under no obligation to do anything with them after the "bang"
 
Evan14 said:
I live in toronto right now, but the land my family owns is an hour east of ottawa in mallorytown, i'm going back for the holidays and figured i could get some yote hunting in, i'm sure my grandfather knows someone who would be intersted in the pelts, i'll hit him up tonight.
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what about the 'hats for hides' program?
 
Don't worry about the pelts, yotes are a serious problem here in SE Ontario. See it as if you're doing a favor to mother nature by protecting other creatures like deers and livestock.
 
Whack'em and stack'em and leave'em for the mother-loving rats! The only good yote is a dead yote...seven days in a hot sun.
 
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