How Many will Support Houndsmen?

[Huntbear]

My letter is supporting hound hunting.  I feel all of us need to support each other, not bicker about this and that!!!!!

[stumprat]

Letters sent and phone calls made. Good luck buddy.

[wazzuhunter]

Never hunted coyotes with hounds but I've run into a few groups of people who do it.  I don't see any reason not to allow hounds to run dogs.  Last deer season I saw 59 in two days...don't really think there is a shortage.  I have been coon hunting with hounds on numerous occasions and am a little worried that coon hunting with hounds will be banned next.  I have pretty much lost hope in ever seeing cat hunting with hounds ever return.  We are pretty lucky to even have several areas open for draw permits.  Anyways, I wish the PETA tree huggin' hippie groups would understand that we are doing them a favor using hounds.  They wouldn't have to worry about getting attacked while they were out nature biking or worry about their pet poodle FeeFee getting eaten.

[FrankDown]

They did it in California, now the mountain lions and bears have joined the coyotes in managing the numbers of moutnian bikers and hikers, as well as children out of arms reach.  When I was in California I saw bit in KCal or soemthing from a security camera with a young kid shateboarding in a private gated community.  The security camera caught a coyote trying to attack the kid.  THeres many issues about coyotes in California.

I was camping at Joshua tree one winter and the coyotes were circling around outside my tent.  My dog was inside my tent, he and my wife had a hard time sleeping withthem yipping and walking around outside the tent.  THey never tried to come in the tent, and dont know what would have happened if they did.  There had to be at least 4 or 5 of them.  Occasionally I could see them touching the tent with their muzzle.