Special Trapping Permit Requests Denied

[Skyvalhunter]

Terrorist group

[Cougartail]

Is slobbering on my sliding glass door and drooling on the deck justification for trapping a coyote? This has caused my poodle severe emotional problems and he now under professional care from a doggie phycologist. I'm out $350 per week and consider this a financial loss due to these coyotes?


Will I get a permit? I'm afraid my poodle might crack and commit suicide!


This whole process of getting a special permit is so hurtful..

[Trapper John]

I turn down 10-15 coyote jobs a year in Seattle.  Why?
Think about it for a minute.  You set a foot-hold out (in the city with homes everywhere not acres) for a coyote and you catch the next door neighbors cat...... You just held that cat for the coyote or / and the neighbor calls the police, game department, local newspaper and the TV news.  Plus they take a whole lot of pictures to give to HSUS

"OR" you catch that coyote at 2:00 am and that coyote is screaming (Oh and they do sometimes when caught) 
Your Customer will be calling you to get over there now ! 
In the mean time the police are called  , media shows up,  all of the neighbor are woken up 

WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN?
You "THE TRAPPER" will be in the news and WSTA will have to be fighting the department, media, and legislators for years to come.
 
Was it worth it ?
Personally I would tell the home owner to take their dog out on a lash or fence in their yard.
Here is a job for you, build them a fence at $40.00 a foot.
Pet Owners need to be more reasonable for their pets.

Guys like Bruce, George and myself are going to fight for WSTA and all trappers to keep trapping here in Washington
Just my two cents.   
JC