Predator Control (Coyotes)
 

Hey yall !
For one of my classes, I'm doing a study on hunter's attitude towards predator control.

If any of yall could do this super short survey, I would really appreciate it.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VWZ29KQ

Thank you <3

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Thanks so much !

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So far yall have been the most helpful <3
Thanks x a million

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Done!! Please post the results from your survey. We would like to see it.

Married a woman from Maine so, when she heard this, she said I had to help one of her own!

Hope it helped!

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If you're PETA then we are fueling your fire!

Had not considered that. Michelle, would you care to elaborate on the reasoning for your study? Not accusing, just curious.

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Done, good luck..

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haha, hell no am I in any way associated with PETA. I've been hunting since I was a little girl.

I'm doing a study on hunter's attitdues toward predator control just to understand the audience and then afterwards I have to launch a public awareness campaign. It's for a big research project I'm doing for one of my classes, so any help with this survey would be greatly appreciated !

Good deal. I hope you get all the info you need!;)

Survey done!!;)

You may want to look up 'compensatory reproduction' just in case that question is aksed of you. When the population of coyotes takes a big hit one year then the next year the population becomes a 'boom', they will compensate for their losses.

Had a girl at ULM doing research on coyotes and I helped as much as possible. We would check the stomachs and you would be amazed at what was in there. Grasshoppers, beetles, persimmons, rats and rabbit hair. 90% of them had heartworms also. Some had so many heartworms it was amazing they were still alive.

'The wolf makes the elk strong' - Aldo Leopold:)

Started to do this yesterday and then I thought about what Shawn posted and didn't.

Done now.

Good luck.

HMMM, you hunt and fish??? Ever think of moving to SW La?????

haha, I would loveee to be down south. I'm pretty sure that's where I belong <3

Whats the story with the deer in your avatar?

I worked on a deer ranch in Texas this summer & bottle raised about 60 whitetail fawns. The one in my avatar is a little buck fawn we named Mighty Taco because he was only 3 1/2 pounds when he was born & he looked like a chihuahua

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...x/IMG_0341.jpg

done! happy to see your not peta

:) Love the hat

Done, keep us posted on the results.

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Did you work at kerrville?

I have no idea what that is, so nope !

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He is referring to Kerrville, TX. I'm guessing they have a facility that does the same there.

I applied to probably about 20 deer ranches last summer; they're all over Texas & some other states like Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania. The ranch I worked at was in Pearsall, TX.

I see what you did there;)

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completed, post results when u get done. Welcome to Saltycajun.com also !!

Done as well. Our 50,000 members at Delta Waterfowl are big fans of predator management. We have been doing it successfully for 17 years. Let us know the results.

Will do ! In the past 2 days people have submitted over 300 submitted surveys so it might take me a little while to go through them all and pool the data, but I'll share my results as soon as I'm done !

Hope my participation helps you.

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I'd just like to say thanks to anyone that's completed the survey & since I've got almost 500 surveys filled out so far, I'll be closing the survey tomorrow morning and will results posted sometime next week !

So, 531 people took the survey for me, which is awesome ! But it gave me ridiculous amounts of data to go through which is why this took me forever. I’m also on spring break, soooo I haven’t been working on homework all that much these last 2 weeks. Sorry !

Ohkay,
so this is pretty much most of the results that matter and I could do without using the statistical software that’s only available to me at my school. But if you guys want to know anything else just ask !

95.6% say they are for predator control
4.8% say they are against predator control


Views on predator control by age group:
Ages 14-20, 90% were for predator control, 5% were against, and 5% were undecided
Ages 21-30, 94% were for predator control, 6% were against, and 0% were undecided
Ages 31-40, 95% were for predator control, 4% were against, and 1% was undecided
Ages 41-50, 94% were for predator control, 3% were against, and 3% were undecided
Ages 51-60, 96% were for predator control, 4% were against, and 0% were undecided
Ages 61-70, 92% were for predator control, 8% were against, and 0% were undecided
Ages 71-80, 100% were for predator control, 0% were against, and 0% were undecided


Species Hunted:
75% Hunted/Trapped Large/Small Mammals
29% Hunted Waterfowl
39% Hunted/Trapped other predators
50% Hunted Coyotes


66% have experienced problems with coyotes
34.2% haven’t experienced problems with coyotes


79.1% live in an area with a high population of coyotes
21.4% do not live in an area with a high population of coyotes


Pros of Having Coyotes:
1. 18% say they effect game populations in a positive way (they have a vital part ni the ecosystem and they prey upon the sick/weak animals)
6% say they clean up the carcasses that are left behind
16% say they help control varmint populations
1% say they can sell pelts

Cons of Having Coyotes:
6% say they spread disease
55% say they effect game populations in a negative way (they prey upon game so frequently that they lower their populations to low levels)
23% say they kill off too many fawns and young animals
29% say they are a danger to personal homes, pets, or livestock
7% say their populations are too high
51% say there are no pros about having coyotes


Additional Comments:
18% say we should just kill them all
4% say we should just let coyote populations be and have nature control it
13% say what is currently being done to control coyote populations is good enough
64% say that more control is needed

Percent of people in support of predator control by state
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Views of people on the issue in accordance to their knowledge of the subject
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Thanks for the update.