Cowman you are not crazy...

[coppertop]

well cowman, I can sure send you a bunch more coyotes if you like them that much !! May throw in a den or two of foxes as well !!!!

[kato]

I'll take the foxes! They like goose eggs, and we've been overrun by those!

I've even seen writeups by Ducks Unlimited praising the virtues of coyotes over foxes because apparently coyotes aren't nearly the egg eaters that foxes are.

We hear so much goose honking in the mornings around here you'd swear we had a flock of domestic geese in the yard.

[cowman]

Old momma coyote gets out and hustles to feed her babies! I wonder how many pounds of mice and gophers it takes to raise a den of pups?
The way I see it is the coyotes were here long before we came and will probably be here long after we are gone.
Personally I enjoy seeing them and like the serenade at night!

[coppertop]

Coyotes have a place in the scheme of things I guess. Many producers would likely disagree on the attractiveness of the darn things, as they have had to take extensive measures to control predation losses in their lamb and calf crops.