...then you kill the coyotes, and the cycle starts over.

How long before we hear calls to reintroduce the Eastern Cougar to reduce the deer population?

According to some reports, you don't have to reintroduce the cougars because they're already there. Not in huge numbers....yet.

Coyotes are extremely hard to wipe out. They've adapted to man's intrusion on their environment better than any other predator.

I've seen a few of these in my backyard, and I live 9 miles west of the Loop.

If we can only get them to work on the Democratic Soccer mom and School Superintendent populations...

Conversely, the state's power hungry leadership is now seeking ways to give geese and deer the vote. I've seen precinct workers on the golf course attempting to register them.

I wonder if the introduction of immigrants -- Poles and Mexicans -- in suburban Cook county won't do something to curb the goose population. A lot of Latin Americans in particular are used to buying live fowl and butchering them. One of those geese is a free feast. Toss that sucker in a pot of molten mole an you're good to go.

I live in Chicago's northwest suburbs on a one acre lot off of a fairly large lake that has a year round duck flock in residence. Until this summer, about one-third of our lot was in undergrowth and scrub trees. Thanks to the coyote den with the mother and cubs (kits?) that were constantly trotting through my back yard on the way to and from the lake buffet, I clear cut the entire lot.

After cutting that ground cover down the coyotes retreated into my neighbor's overgrown hedge border. Well, at least that cutting has left me a somewhat larger and more visible field of fire.

Say goodnight Wiley.

IIRC, there were several coyotes along the downtown lakefront a while back that they were trying to trap and relocate.

Coyotes are easy to thwart, just drop an anvil on their heads.

"Beep Beep", "Honk, Honk" -- as long as the Acme Corp ships to Illinois, I don't see where there's that big a difference for the predator.

Goofy. This is what happpens when you let the geeenie-weeenies take over your state departments of environmental resources and get away from hunter ecology. There are plenty of people ready willing and able to take care of game birds and animals and who will gladly control predators as part of their ecology.

My state had long maintained a hunter ecology. Predators in general were mostly unprotected, and certain predators, those impacting small game populations, were actually bountied. Right now they have gotten away from this approach, so predators are up, upland game birds are down, and geese and deer are all over the place.

Of course firearms are too dangerous in built-up areas, but bows are not. Crossbows are an interesting compromise. My state allows them in lieu of guns during the gun season, which opens up all kinds of suburban and even urban hunting opportunities.

Crying about deer, geese, coyotes and cougars because you don't want to see them shot is sort of like crying about Camel-jockeys for the same reason: an act of hypocracy.

"I've seen precinct workers on the golf course attempting to register them."

At least they are registering living things.

"How long before we hear calls to reintroduce the Eastern Cougar to reduce the deer population?"

I have been calling for that a while. Better cougars than rats on stilts.

"Toss that sucker in a pot of molten mole an you're good to go."

Nah, you got to roast or boil them for a while to get the fat off. Save that goose fat, makes mighty good fried taters.

"Thanks to the coyote den with the mother and cubs (kits?) that were constantly trotting through my back yard on the way to and from the lake buffet, I clear cut the entire lot."

Why? Seems to me that they would be fun to watch.