As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die

I'm really against this:

As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die

It's not that dogs might die, they will.

I'm not in the camp that suggest that predators need to be left alone, I've shot plenty of them myself.  I also think the danger they pose to livestock is exaggerated and tends to be seasonal.  

Anyhow. since when I was young I've hunted coyotes from time to time.  I view it the same way that I view other hunting to a large degree.  I love hunting, but my hunting is purposeful.  When I've hunted coyotes I've done it to think predator populations, or for their furs.  When I was of high school age I supplemented my meager income this way quite a bit.  Fur prices were high then.

But I don't care for cyanide bombs at all.  Inevitably some private pet, probably a hunting dog, is going to get into one.  And frankly, stockmen can take care of this problem by staying out with their livestock more.  Or inviting the coyote hunters in.

M44 Cyanide bomb.  The coyote pulls up on the device and receives a blast of cyanide in the mouth.

And frankly, if ranchers did the latter, they'd receive a fair number of volunteers.  The county and Federal trappers are competition, really, for private individuals who would fill most of this role if allowed to.