"Quote" Why in the world are people not looking into this more? "Unquote"
GW I have found that most people don't look at the logical approch on most things. If it seams to be a good idea somhow it gets overlooked.
I have had problems with predators as well and I don't like to kill or have killed any animal that is just doing what comes natural. But you have to find ways to keep your property safe. If you do all you can to keep them safe and nothing else will work sometimes you have no choice. As you have said you don't have livestock and it may be if you did you might think a little different. But for the most part I will try to do what can be done without killing, case in point, we had a coon kill some chickens, we found out where it was getting in and put in a live trap, sure enough we caught it. We took it to another part of the woods, several miles away and turned it loose, as a matter of fact it had a metal ring from a can around its neck and we cut that off as well. However, we have killed a dog that was terrorizing the neighborhood, after it attacked one of our dogs in our front yard. The neighbor that owned the dog would not do any thing to keep it at home and it was one of the large white dogs, GP.
So where do you draw the line? DO you allow animals, wild or not, to kill and or maime yours simply because its nature?? I agree with you in that it would be better to find ways to stop the problem without killing, however nature will find a way to keep going and taking a "few" problem animals out of the picture will not cause a major drop of predators.
