Killing Coyotes Is Not the Answer
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* Was your reporter at the same meeting regarding the trapping of coyotes as I was? Had he been, he would have included some very important facts.
First of all, more than 500,000 residents were represented by the Hillside Federation in support of the ban on trapping. Secondly, an additional 10,000 from the city of Los Angeles signed similar petitions, including 400 just from the Woodland Hills and West Hills areas.
Most disturbing is the fact that the majority of residents who petitioned this meeting couldn’t even be bothered to listen to alternatives to trapping (after they had presented their views for an hour) or even wait to hear the final decision of the commission. This despite hearing from expert after expert that trapping does not work. It seems to me that some of these residents want an easy answer, and in this case it takes a little more than a phone call to Animal Regulation.
It requires communities’ working together, aggressive education, prevention and understanding coyote behavior.
If these residents can’t even be bothered to listen to all the facts, how can they expect to remedy the so-called problem?
Killing coyotes is not the answer.
SUSAN KIPLINGER
Los Angeles
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