As most readers of this blog know so well, when we kill Coyotes, we end up with more Coyotes.........."(Los Angeles) Coyote experts say the city probably has created a worse situation for itself"............... "More coyotes will move into (a) vacated territory"....."Meanwhile, if the alpha female of the family group was killed, the non-breeding females(extended family members) will begin breeding"............ "Family structures have become unstable, which might lead more coyotes to seek food among the houses". ..................Camilla Fox, founder of Project Coyote, said "it’s unclear whether the city(L.A.) truly had a problem-coyote issue at all"........... "People tend to misinterpret coyote curiosity as aggression".................."Project Coyote persuaded the Calabasas City Council not to spend public money on coyote trapping; instead, the nonprofit group has developed a comprehensive plan for managing coyotes".............. "Fox offered to do the same for Laguna Beach — for free".............. "Instead, the city has committed tens of thousands of dollars to trapping the wildlife, a strange irony for a town that spent millions to preserve the back-country habitat where coyotes live"................ "We all want wildlife, it seems, we just don’t want it to inconvenience us very much"

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-coyote-death-penalty-20160119-story.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTk1OTEzMjAwNDQ4NzUwOTQ0MTIaZjUwOWE2YjQ0ZTNkYzY4OTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFSct6YCjCaEH3k78Xqpaw1WIWVbA

Does killing urban coyotes create 

more problems than it solves?

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)