Enough fear mongering about Wile E. Coyote. Homeland Security or whatever our Canadian version is called, is being misled when coyotes are being labelled as dangerous miscreants.
I live in outside of the GTA. Way outside. We actually had snow covering our ground from December 1 until the past few days. This morning I was horrified and sickened to see the damage caused to my lawns and gardens after the glacial blanket had retreated. Bets of tulip bulbs decimated. Trenches dug throughout the lawn. All the work of an enemy that has little respect for man. An enemy who has manipulated Hollywood into spreading propoganda -- painting the enemy as cute singing stars. That's right, the real danger is not the coyote but chipmunks. I live in an area with a burgeoning coyote population and have never had a cross word with our canid neighbour or reason to be annoyed. The chipmunks however, started moving in 2 summers ago and it has been bloody gruesome guerrilla warfare ever since.
Having recently been able to receive higher speed dial up service, we now have the internet at home so I thought I'd consult others wiser than me. I left the internet with a sense that I really am quite a bright fellow. One of dumber suggestions on the net was to set up buckets of water as traps, with a 2 x 4 on the top...place a few seeds on the 2 x 4 and the crafty insurgents will climb the bucket for the seeds, fall into the bucket and drown. First, the idea of killing one of the enemies is distasteful and unCanadian. If I stoop to their level, I am no better than a chipmunk then.
Other suggestions included setting rat traps (which would kill red squirrels too) to live havahart traps (what am I going to do with the live chipmunk then -- no doubt snarling and enraged).
I am open to suggestions. Until then, I am going to deal with this as a Canadian. I'm going to fill the buckets with beer.
