Journal SPAM: Wealthy People Annoyed with Reality 13
The Biltmore area in Phoenix is full of lush golf courses and man made lakes. It's really beautiful and a place for the wealthy to enjoy. Of course - the set up makes it incredibly attractive to coyotes. Not the kind running illegals across the border - real, honest to goodness coyotes. And the thing is, coyotes are happy eating quail, rabbits or some rich persons pet. This makes the rich people upset and the rich people want to kill all the coyotes. The fact that someone comes and tells them that this is completely unworkable isn't acceptable and leaves on man wanting to scream - in his own words. I hear next week they have a meeting to complain about the sun and heat in the desert.
Of course that's not completely fair - the sun and heat would be there - these people created the condition they are complaining about all on their own. If they really wanted less coytoes - they would get rid of all the grass, trees, water, etc. Get rid of their little pets - and return the area to a more natural state that didn't support so many coyotes and attract them from all over. Otherwise they just need to suck it up and take it.
Of course that's not completely fair - the sun and heat would be there - these people created the condition they are complaining about all on their own. If they really wanted less coytoes - they would get rid of all the grass, trees, water, etc. Get rid of their little pets - and return the area to a more natural state that didn't support so many coyotes and attract them from all over. Otherwise they just need to suck it up and take it.
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But there is a growing problem with coyotes that can't be denied. Last week, the wife of one of my coworkers here in Prescott was taking her dog (largish lab) for a walk and it was attacked by four coyotes. She managed to break up the attack but the coyotes didn't go very far and they followed her home. This is a far cry from the way 'yotes used to behave. It used to be that at the first sign of a human taking an interest in them they would vanish.
According to Arizona Game & Fish, c
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Coyote are like deer - in that people provide an environment for them to flourish. A bounty might do it. Of course the antis would go nuts over it. I guess when I'm out there next week I'll do my part and go shoot a few. The problem is of course- that wont help for communities of coyotes that have set up in urban areas. Can't shoot inside city limits.
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Instead of coyotes, you now get to deal with gators [fark.com].
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On a different tangent, we had friends when we were still in AZ who got pictures of a mountain lion in their back yard. I was always jealous. I used to spend a lot of time out and about in the state and never once saw a wild lion.
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Also, last week my wife and I were over at the in-laws for dinner. When we were heading home a police officer was driving through the neighborhood warning people to watch out for a bear that had been spotted in the area. I think a lot of these encounters must be related to the drought we're having. There hasn't been all that much expansion on this side of town and it used to be pretty unusual to run into more than a couple javelina.
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i'm not surprised about the bear. if it is dry enough, long enough they are going to get pushed into neighborhoods. it seems like a few years ago there was such an uproar over the bear they killed down around tucson. i'll be in williams and strawberry the week of the 4th - and we always keep the dogs in when we are at the cabin in strawberry just to be sure they don't get into it with javelina. i haven't been in AZ since we left last may - so i'm really excited to spend som
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I've always liked it over near Strawberry. My family has a long tradition of summer camping and swimming around Fossil Creek, though I haven't been over there since they closed the power plant and restored 100% of the flow to the creek.
Did I ever mention the time my wife and I were accosted by javelina? A whole herd of nearly a dozen cornered us while we were getting groceries out of the car. Melissa scrambled up on the hood of the car while a tried to scare them off.
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Did you get in your time machine and write this 30 years ago?
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Yeah, I guess that was a pretty gross understatement, eh? Do you find that the coninued decline in our culture makes your decision to protect it harder?
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Significantly.
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I try to remind myself of the Socrates quote [google.com] on youth and expand it to society in general. I try to remind myself that all through history, NOW has usually seemed worse than BEFORE to a large segment of every society, regardless of the reality. Sometimes it works better than other times.
Right now happens to be one of those other times.
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You reminded me of a time in college when I was taking a class on the history of organized crime. Our professor told us about a gang in New Orleans and all that they did. I don't remember too many of the bad thigns that they did, but I do remember that they had an enforcer nicknamed "Bonecrusher" because he would break the victims bones while killing them. "I like to hear the bones go crunch," he was
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Still and all, now is one of those other times.