Some good, animal-friendly news for Kentucky's coyotes:
Caged up in a legislative committee, a bill that would allow trappers to catch and sell live coyotes appears to be dying a slow death.The legislation's sponsor, Rep. Royce Adams, claims that such a life is preferable to living in the wild, such as it is, where coyotes risk danger from farmers with guns, automobiles, and death by more natural causes. I'd wager that, if coyotes could speak, they'd take their chances on their own, so good riddance to this bill. Can we now see about banning the sale of live coyotes in the other eight states? Trafficking in live wild animals is one of the old abominable human traditions that needs to go the way of slavery and other barbaric practices we've seen fit to end.
If the measure had passed, Kentucky would have joined eight other states that allow sales of live coyotes. The coyotes typically are purchased by houndsmen who turn them loose in sprawling enclosures for their dogs to chase.
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