Oftentimes, contests bring us together in wonderful ways. The chance to hone a skill, win prizes, and spend time with your community can be an amazing thing. Pie-baking contests, vegetable growing contests, art-making contests — all things that bring us together while adding beauty to the world. But one type of gruesome, tortuous contest does […]
Tag: coyotes
Petition: Help Ban Wildlife Killing Contests in New Jersey
Wildlife killing contests bring people together in the name of death and suffering, and that’s why many states are banning the disgusting tradition altogether. Source: HSUS/YouTube Oregon, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington have all banned wildlife killing contests, and now New York. Why? Because they are widely considered as […]
3 coyote attacks reported in Phoenix; 4-year-old among victims bitten
A recent spate of coyote attacks in Phoenix left three people, including a 4-year-old child, with bite injuries and prompted a search for the coyote or coyotes responsible, Arizona wildlife officials said Monday. Two of the incidents happened Saturday and a third occurred Monday – all in an area just east of I-17 and Happy […]
Petition: Tell New York to Ban Wildlife Killing Contests
The state of Oregon finally listened to experts and Animal rights advocates and became the 9th state in the country to ban wildlife killing contests! The New York state legislature just passed a bill to do the same, and it awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. We must encourage her to stand on the right side […]
Saving Coyotes: Why America’s “Song Dogs” Deserve Better
Coyotes have lived in North America for over one million years since the Pleistocene. By contrast, the earliest estimates of human populations in North America only reach back 130,000 years (although most scientists believe it occurred much later). This means that North America’s “Song Dogs” have lived here roughly 6.5 times longer than humans. These […]
State wildlife officials ban wildlife killing contests on public land – Graphic Video
Four years after the Legislature failed to ban wildlife killing contests, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission outlawed them. At its meeting Friday in Bend, five commissioners, with one abstaining, voted in favor of a rule to prohibit the contests, which have been held to kill coyotes in a few rural counties in Oregon. The […]
All the reasons we’re fighting to protect coyotes, America’s ‘song dog’
For years we have been working to prevent the wanton slaughter of animals in wildlife killing contests. The coyote, an animal who has been wrongly considered a pest in popular culture, is most often the central target of such events. We are trying to change that. Here, Katie Stennes, program manager of our Wildlife Protection […]
Lily the Cat Saves Family from Intruding Coyote
In the early hours of a Los Angeles morning, the Shoshan family was jolted awake by the terrified cries of their cat, Lily. In a heart-stopping turn of events, a coyote had entered their home through the pet door. Lily had been the first to spot the intruder and immediately sprung onto the dining room […]