Coyote

[Liota]

A few years ago, the Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predator, the tree-huggers had a "more humane" solution.

What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males castrated and let loose again and the population would be controlled. This was ACTUALLY proposed to the Wyoming Wool and Sheep Grower's Association by the Sierra Club and the USFS. All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.

Finally, an old boy in the back stood up, tipped his hat back and said, "Son, I don't think you understand the problem. Those coyotes ain't f****n' our sheep - they're eatin' 'em".

[AlamoShooter]

I think it would curb my appetite

[SiG Lady]

I wish I'd been there to hear him say that... then to hear the audience reaction.

[Sam]

God, I love this state!

[dajarrel]

I wish I'd been there to hear him say that... then to hear the audience reaction.

Me too. For me it was another of those LOL moments by myself.

I can't imagine the response in a crowded room.

dj

[Liota]

God, I love this state!

Sam,

I have to admit that by the end of the joke I had to go back to make sure it said Wyoming instead of West Texas.

Liota

[SiG Lady]

Oh... I thought it WAS Texas...!

Mwahaha!!

[Liota]

Oh... I thought it WAS Texas...!

Mwahaha!!

What made this so funny is a guy who lives about an hour from my home town telling me a story. His parents had given his kids about 250 sheep. In the spring, the lambing was happening. He'd go out in the evening and there would be a set of twins. Going out the next morning, the twins would be gone. "Where's the twins?" He then noticed the coyotes around the place. He said they were so fat they could hardly walk. He said you could hear them... awoooo..Burp! ooooo....

His proposal was to get a couple of us with rifles to go out at night. He would set up a kill zone and use pre-recorded sounds to attract the coyotes. We never got around to doing it. He said the coyotes wandered off. I'm wondering if they ate themselves to death.

Liota

[Barlin]

Unfortunatly the original joke was not to far from the truth. About 10 years ago the greens and the reds (our fed gov) teamed up to come up with an alternative to lethal predator control. The solution was coyote birth control. The idea was before breeding season dart the bitch with a substance to prevent esterus (how 'bout a hollow-point), anyway for some perverse reason they wanted to watch coyotes mating. So a reasearch center was set up and loyal gov employees took shifts watching, ready to record coyote coupling. (what a job). So after 3 months and $85000 of tax payer money. It was discovered that the only effective method of coyote birth control was to have a Fish and Wildlife employee staring slack-jawed through a chain link fence at the frustrated coyotes. It also explains why there is no 'yote porn.