I figured something was up when the shelves at Freddy's were totally empty of Acme anvils, rockets, BB's & giant magnets!

Costco has pallet's of Acme Safe's on special.

I would be just as sad as anyone to see my pet ripped up by a Coyote, but the life force is strong Luke.

Humans have had it too easy and now Nature is slowly putting everything back into chaotic balance.

The white males of this country have had it "too easy for too long as well."
Please report to the re-education camp in your neighborhood with car titles and house keys immediately.

Cause for having a Concealed Carry Permit.

Why a concealed carry permit?

Perfectly legal in Oregon to walk around with a handgun in a holster on your hip.

ORS 166.250(3).
State v. Fisher, 100 Or. App. 149 (1990)

Bye bye coyote.

Some localities in Oregon think they have authority to restrict open carry. See, Portland City Code (PCC)14A.60.010. The efficacy of those local option ordinances has not been tested in the Oregon Supreme Court, AFIK. See also, PCC 14A.60.010 (11);(3,(12),and other exemptions, as well as PCC14A.20.040.

Tim, your comment represents a cliche and ill-informed assessment of the forces at hand here. I know it "feels right" to assume that coyotes were "here first," and all that nonsense. But the fact is, coyotes were not common in these parts before large-scale settlement occurred.

Coyotes are opportunistic. They have not "moved here because they are being forced out of their natural habitat." They are lured here because of the abundant food source provided by pets and other creatures they prey on. Not long ago, the occasional coyote (then considered "wild dog") would wander into town, be seen and reported and either killed or relocated. That's because it was known then, as it is now, that once the dens become established they are harder than hell to get rid of. But the attempted eradication of a den out by the PDX airport many years ago created a hew and cry among the Koom-Ba-Yas, who prevented the action. Now we have allowed a problem to firmly root itself.

If you want to return to the utopian vision of nature you apparently have about the way things were (and should be), then I guess we should skin them for their hides and wear their heads as decorations, like the aboriginals.

So follow the logical path. Coyotes are now all over all our neighborhoods in numbers few Portlanders realize, and as the numbers increase, so will the probability that there will be an outbreak of rabies from them eating an infected animal. Coyotes are already more than acclimated in our populated areas without little fear of humans, and many folks feeding them 'cause they're so dog-goned cute. So instead of being proactive and preventing a problem, someday we will have to react and solve a much, much more difficult problem.

But I understand, it just "feels so right" to have them here.

PDXLifer:

Thanks for the recent history lesson. The fact is virtually everything that was here first is long gone. And we are all parasites, opportunists, and invaders.

And I have no problems shooting coyotes. Unfortunatley, we've pretty much been neutered as far as protecting ourselves goes.

Pushed out of their habitat? That's why the are in Portland? Ha!

They are in Portland for the rats, and the rat are there for the garbage. Surely the rat population has peaked yet, so neither has the coyote population.

Also shooting slugs in the city is ridiculous. And why would you need to conceal your gun from a coyote? They aren't like Wily Coyote, they are smarter. :-)