Badgers? We Don't Need No Stinking Badgers!

If you live in an urban setting like Orange County, you know that it wasn't all that long ago that various critters (coyotes, foxes, martens and weasels, etc.,) were commonplace.  Driven into the local foothills by human encroachment (areas which are now being developed as well) these various species adjust to life with humans, and slowly but surely begin re-populating their former turf.  Seems that badgers are now moving back into urban areas like the City of Orange.  Badgers Are Back!

Speaking of critters, I, for one, am sick and tired of Orange County residents being told by city and county officials that the uptick in the coyote population is something "we'll just have to learn to live with."  Citizens of one local community--whose missing pets number in the dozens--are demanding that city officials quit bowing to the Animal Rights activists and that those paid to protect them and secure the public welfare, actually do something to remove the coyotes from the area.  I've had them in my yard, and you see (or hear) them all over the place at night.  Enough!  Sadly, it will take a child or an elderly adult getting attacked for anything to be done.  No, coyotes do not have rights!  Coyotes Need Killin'

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Comments

[George]

Yeah, coyotes are becoming an urban/suburban problem everywhere, not just in the OC. Here in NE Illinois there have been numerous accounts of the predators killing and/or carrying off small dogs. And you're right, it's just a matter of time before a toddler gets caught in the middle, as well.

Coyotes haven't been a problem until the past couple of decades because there used to be a bounty on them - so they were kept to small numbers. Nowadays that would be difficult to resume because, 1) they've penetrated so far into populated areas where trapping would be more hazardous and firearms out of the question and 2) the PETA-types would never stand for such activity.

The argument that "we've (mankind) moved into THEIR habitats so it's now our duty to co-exist with them" is a lame one, because that already happened a long, long time ago. But previous generations knew how to deal with it; we've apparently lost that ability in this day and age.

[DB]

Round up the badgers, use their fur to make shaving brushes. Shaving brushes made of bradger fur are the best. Brag about it at the next PETA barbecue you go to.