12/24/2025
This Is Exactly What’s Wrong With the Way We Talk About Wildlife
“Any coyote is a bad coyote.”
“They shouldn’t exist.”
“Looks like it has a lead deficiency.”
This is not “farm wisdom.”
This is fear, ignorance, and bloodlust dressed up as expertise.
Coyotes did not magically appear out of nowhere. They adapted because we cleared forests, wiped out apex predators, fragmented habitat, and built subdivisions where ecosystems used to function just fine.
Then people turn around and say, “Kill them”
All of them?
How many is enough?
When you indiscriminately kill predators, you create the very problems you complain about.
Coyotes regulate:
• rodents (rats, mice, voles)
• sick and weak deer
• rabbits and small mammals that destroy crops
• carrion that spreads disease
Coyotes are not “evil.”
They are not “out to get you.”
They are not roaming your property plotting attacks.
They are doing what predators have done for thousands of years: balancing the system.
Yes, farmers protect livestock. We use good fencing. We use guardian animals. We use smart management. We don’t cheer for cruelty or fantasize about extermination like it’s a sport.
You don’t fix ecology with hate.
You don’t manage land with ignorance.
And you don’t get to call yourself a steward while celebrating the destruction of wildlife simply because it exists.
We can do better.
We should do better.
And we will keep saying so — loudly — because this land deserves intelligence, not violence for sport.
— The Fox & Crow Farm
