Well our friend Matthew Duncan must feel vindicated. No longer will he be the lone wolf, howling at the moon, while defending coyotes from inhumane execution at Anaheim Council meetings – the cavalry has arrived! (And he told me this was gonna happen.)
Over our transom this weekend, PETA (the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) sent us this video and press release. FIRST THE SHORT VIDEO, an excerpt from their upcoming film “One Nation Under Dog,” showing the gas-chamber execution of four young coyote “song dogs”:
UPDATE VIDEO REMOVED AT PETA’S REQUEST. A copyright thing with HBO I think. But you had 4 days to see & hear it!
And next, PETA’s press release, announcing an action they’re taking tomorrow, Tuesday:
Orange County — In response to the cruel and ineffective trapping and gassing of coyotes in Orange County, PETA representatives—flanked by a pack of supporters wearing coyote masks—will hold a news conference outside the headquarters of the California Fish and Game Commission in Sacramento on Tuesday to call for statewide regulations that would ban gassing coyotes to death and prohibit cities from contracting with private trappers who trap and kill the “song dogs” on public land.
PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange, PETA Foundation General Counsel Jared Goodman, and PETA Foundation Wildlife Veterinarian Dr. Mason Payne will all speak at the news conference on Tuesday and are available for phone or video interviews with you about this issue.
The news conference will highlight PETA’s petition for rulemaking, which the Fish and Game Commission will consider at its June 19–20 meeting, filed in response to Anaheim’s contracts with a private trapper—Jimmie Rizzo of Coyote, Wildlife & Pest Solutions Inc.—who uses a gas chamber in the back of his truck to kill coyotes and has repeatedly self-reported setting snare traps near dozens of homes in possible violation of state law.
According to contracts between Rizzo’s company and Anaheim—as well as Rancho Palos Verdes and Torrance in Los Angeles County—each city has spent between $105,000 and $215,000 in taxpayer money on coyote-trapping programs despite extensive research demonstrating that lethal removal doesn’t control the animals’ populations or minimize conflicts with humans. None of the cities could produce a single public record showing that they exercise any oversight of Rizzo’s use of a gas chamber, which Californians historically have opposed.
“It’s time to put trappers on notice for cruelly killing California’s wildlife, who should be respected, not slowly strangled in snares and gassed in the back of a truck,” says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange. “PETA is urging state lawmakers to ban Anaheim and every other city in California from senselessly exterminating animals who are simply trying to survive.”
At Tuesday’s news conference, members of PETA will speak about the legal ramifications of the trappings and killings and show footage of coyotes caught in snare traps and coyote-sized dogs sent to gas chambers to highlight the immense suffering and terror caused by these lethal methods.
To encourage coyotes to leave residential neighborhoods, PETA and California state authorities recommend that homeowners remove food sources and keep companion animals indoors and garbage tightly sealed.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
3. The RIZZO Concern.
Vern here again. To paraphrase Trump, we are sure there are MANY FINE PEOPLE named “Rizzo.” It’s just that the Rizzi we KNOW about give one pause to say the least.
- Jimmie Rizzo, the trapper/killer in question, who has managed to charm journalists with his Southern accent and eccentric behavior into writing puff pieces like this. “What a character!” they rave, he reminds them of that Australian crocodile guy. Meanwhile in recent years he’s come under investigation for breaking numerous laws in his insatiable and sadistic quest for more dead coyotes and other wildlife.
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- Robert Rizzo, HB-dwelling Bell City Manager, “was regarded as the ringleader among the ‘Bell Eight,’ former Bell city officials (all of whom resigned or were recalled or fired), accused of bilking taxpayers out of about $5.5 million through hefty salaries, benefits and illegal loans of public money.” Comparable to and a harbinger of the Anaheim scandals of 2022!
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- Rizzo of the Jerky Boys, the most aggressive of the characters developed by those 1990’s prank-call artistes. Though others of their characters are more surrealistically creative, “Rizzo” or “Paul Rizzo” or “Frank Rizzo” is the scariest, and most worthy of our concern.
- Further research may help us shed more light on … everything under the sun! I just read that the Jerky Boys named that character Rizzo (although they Americanize the pronunciation) in honor of that unforgettable Dustin Hoffman character from Midnight Cowboy, “RATSO RIZZO.” At some point all of this may make sense...
- Greg belatedly chimes in to ask: “Is it more, or is it less, respectful of women to have omitted from this list a role that was surely among the greatest of all Rizzi? Like Squeaky Fromm and Sara Jane Olson in Sondheim’s “Assassins,” it seems best to include Here’s Betty Rizzo of “Grease,” arguably at this late date when high school musicals have kept her perhaps the most famous of them all — even though she wasn’t really bad, but more like just misunderstood. She was played by the great Stockard Channing prior to her becoming First Lady a couple decades later. This Rizzo’s view on coyotes? Unknown, it would hardly be surprising if she eventually became a cougar.”
Well, we hope this was at least a little bit helpful. The Orange Juice Blog will keep you abreast of any developments on the coyote front, and whether or not Anaheim and other towns will stop contracting with the cruel and irresponsible RIZZO! Vern out (and not a moment too soon!)
Once again: is the argument really about the ends or the means?
It might be more karmically just to put them into the big cat cages at the zoo with no means of escape, so that they could be mauled and eaten. Would PETA really say “yeah, that’s what we wanted!”?
Worse: to conflate public opposition to the gas chamber for executing humans (among opposition to any other means to that end) with opposition to the same thing for coyotes is both dishonest and loony. If we could arrange for the “song dogs” to be euthanized as they are in a veterinary office, would that be OK? Not likely. Unless there is an independent study that shows that the public opposes the gas chamber for coyotes, this argument chokes their own credibility.
I think PETA and Duncan don’t want them killed at all. But I understand there are more humane ways to kill them if it is necessary.
Again, it’s about both the ends and the means. Come chat with me at the Council Meeting tomorrow night. I prefer face-to-face dialogue.
I’m sorry that I didn’t see this until today.
Anyway, I don’t see why I would make a special trip out there to talk to someone whose mind is so firmly fixed and seeks at best to justify and more likely to harangue.
I can agree that killing whatever number of coyotes should be killed should be done as humanely as reasonably possible, within available financial constraints. And I agree that enough should be spared to help contain the rat population. But it would not shock me if there was no real good alternative available.
I just finished watching the video and am so mortified, I haven’t even finished reading this article yet. As someone who lives DAILY in unison with coyotes, I have no words as to WHY Anaheim is killing these beautiful animals.
The problem IS NOT coyotes; it is Anaheim’s REFUSAL to hold residents accountable for their numerous, free-roaming cats and the extreme number of litters which are birthed every year in our neighborhoods, with lack of the owner of said cat(s) taking responsibility! Well just this past week WE, in my neighborhood, are pulling funds together to assist Mama Cat and her babies, to insure they are housed are cared for properly, to get Mama Cat fixed as soon as she can, and to find loving homes for the new baby kitties.
ANAHEIM SHALL BE HELD FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLINGS OF COYOTES! Even your own Code Enforcement will confim that, without coyotes this city will, and has, experienced an extreme RAT problem.
Thank you, MATT DUNCAN, thank you! This city knows fully well you are correct! Instead of focusing on feral cats, they focus on the killing of coyotes.
I have your back, Sir, 1000+ percent!
Hi Kathy. The “rat control” argument is a good one. But bear in mind that, from a coyote’s viewpoint, Mama Cat has a lot more meat on her than a rat and her kittens are a lot easier to catch than rats are. My guess is that it there were a video of a coyote eating a litter of kittens, you’d be similarly mortified — right? (Although, apparently you care little for the suffering of rats. Does not a rat feel pain?) And spaying every feral cat — if you can catch them — isn’t going to solve the problem of coyotes feeding on animals in their vicinity. It’s just that more of those animals are likely to have names. (And if one is a human child at home, then we are really talking about civic liability.)
I WANT TO COMMEND MATTHEW DUNCAN FOR A JOB WELL DONE AS HE HAS STAYED THE COURSE ON THIS FIGHT TO EDUCATE ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE, AMONGST A FEW OTHER CITIES THAT JUST ARE ACTING LIKE THE THREE MONKEYS THAT SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL AND HEAR NO EVIL. (I WRITE IN ALL CAPS FOR OUR VISUALLY IMPAIRED MEMBERS, NO DISRESPECT INTENDED.)
THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL AS SOME MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CAN COVER THEIR EYES, EARS AND MOUTHALL THEY WANT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE COYOTES AND OTHER WILDLIFE ARE HERE TO STAY.
BUT THE FACT IS THAT COYOTES ARE TRULY OUR BEST FRIENDS, THATS RIGHT FOLKS – OUR BEST FRIENDS.
BUT THERE ARE THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL AS A SMALL NUMBER OF BLOOD THIRSTY PUBLIC THAT WANT TO SEE BLOOD BECAUSE THEY EITHER LOST THEIR DOG OR CAT TO A COYOTE, BUT YET DON’T WANT TO OR REFUSE TO TAKE HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTION THAT THEY DIDN’T TAKE AND THAT THEY NEVER EDUCATED THEMSELVES WITH THE WILDLIFE THAT THEY CHOSE TO LIVE WITH OR AROUND.
HELLO!! WAKE UP CALL, AND SO YOU CHOOSE TO HIRE A TRAPPER THAT PREYS UPON YOUR FEAR OR YOUR IGNORANCE AND THE UNEDUCATED WHICH IN TURN MAKES YOUR CITY SPEND YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO TRAP AND GAS OR FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS “MURDER” THE VERY ANIMAL THAT KEEPS US HUMANS FROM GETTING RABIES, PLAGUE, TYPHUS FEVER OR THE EVER SO DEADLY HANTA VIRUS WHICH IF THAT HAPPENS FOLKS AND TAKES HOLD IN ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE, THEN BROTHER YOU WILL BE PRAYING FOR THE COYOTES TO RETURN FOR IT WOULD BE A MUCH WORSE SITUATION.
BUT YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT, DID YOU?
THE FACT THAT THOSE DISEASES WILL KILL YOUR KIDS OR THE ELDERLY BEFORE IT KILLS THE YOUNG AND HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS.
REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT CAUGHT TYPHUS FEVER IN LONG BEACH AFTER THEY TRAPPED AND KILLED COYOTES THERE AND IN SEAL BEACH, TELL THOSE FAMILIES HOW SORRY YOU ARE OR THE FAMILIES THAT VACATIONED IN YOSEMITE WHERE THEY CAUGHT HANTA VIRUS BECAUSE THEY KILLED OFF ALL THE PREDATORS THERE AS WELL OR WORSE YET, HOW ABOUT THE MANY FAMILIES THAT CAUGHT HANTA VIRUS IN THE 4 CORNER STATES, WHY DONT YOU ASK THEM THEY WOULD LIKE COYOTES AND OTHER PREDATORS TO RETURN?
YET NOT MENTION THE DISRESPECT TO THE NATIVE PEOPLE THAT GREW UP IN ANAHEIM AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA AND BEYOND THAT HOLD THE COYOTE SACRED OR IN HIGH REGARD, LIKE THE BUFFALO, THE WOLF, AND OTHER ANIMALS THAT WE WIPED OUT, WHY CANT WE LEARN TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE ? WHY DOES MAN ALWAYS HAVE TO KILL? MAN IS THE WORST PREDATOR OF ALL THE PREDATORS ON EARTH FOR WE KILL FOR THE FUN, SPORT AND PROFIT OF IT.
KILLING COYOTES IS NOT GOING TO BRING YOUR FEFE OR FIDO BACK, NO MATTER HOW ANGRY YOU ARE, BUT BLAME YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING THE SMARTER ANIMAL AND KNOWING HOW TO DEFEND THAT ANIMAL THAT YOU LOVE OR LOVED.
SHAME ON THE COUNCIL AND SHAME ON THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK THAT TRAPPING AND GASSING COYOTES IS OK!
ONCE MORE I COMMEND MATTHEW DUNCAN FOR HIS PERSISTENCE AND FOR THE ORANGE JUICE BLOG VERN FOR TAKING TIME TO FEEL THAT THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH T O FOLLOW AND SPEAK ABOUT, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT IS WHAT TRUE HONEST REPORTING AND JOURNALISM IS ALL ABOUT, THANK YOU VERN.
UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNION MEMBERS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL – RANDAL MASSARO
AN AFTER COMMENT, IT IS ONLY OBVIOUS THAT THE CITIES OF ANAHEIM HAVE SOME UNEDUCATED OR IGNORANT PEOPLE THAT NEVER TO TOOK THE TIME TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES ON WILDLIFE BIOLOGY AND TAKE INTO FORESIGHT OF WHERE THEY ARE INTENDING ON SETTING UP RESIDENCE AND TO KNOW WHAT WILDLIFE LIVE IN THE AREA IN WHICH THEY WISH TO RAISE THEIR FAMILY.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA MADRE ASKING FOR GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM TO PASS A LAW TO GET RID OF ALL THE BLACK BEARS IN SIERRA MADRE, REALLY ?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME ??
CITIES LIKE LA CRESCENTA, MONROVIA, DUARTE, AZUSA, GLENDORA, PASADENA, AND MANY OTHER FOOTHILL CITIES HAVE THE SAME ISSUES OF HUMANS INVADING BEAR COUNTRY, THEN WE COME IN AND WISH TO EXTERMINATE THEM LIKE WE DID THE NATIVE AMERICANS, THE BUFFALO, AND MANY OTHER SPECIES.
AS THE OLD SAYING SAYS, GOD MADE IT PERFECT, THEN MAN COMES ALONG AND RUINS EVERYTHING.
WHEN ARE WE HUMANS GOING TO LEARN TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN ACTIONS AND YET WE ALWAYS TRY TO PLACE AND BLAME ON SOMEONE ELSE, IN THIS CASE BEARS IN SIERRA MADRE OR COYOTES IN ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE.
SUXCH AN INTELLIGENT ANIMAL THAT WE HUMANS CAN LEARN SO MUCH FROM AND GIVE THANKS FOR THEM BEING HERE AS THEY THE AMERICAN SONG DOG THE NATIVE PEOPLE REFER TO THEM AS, HAS ENDURED PERSECUTION, DEMONIZING, ATTACKS, TRAPPING , POISONING, HUNTING FOR MILLENNIA, AND YET THEY SURVIVE WHERE OTHER ANIMALS HAVE FAILED.
GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE MY ITALIAN SICILIAN GRANDPARENTS AND GODFATHER ALWAYS SAID, GIVE CREDIT TO THE ANIMAL THAT PROVES TO BE SMARTER THAN YOU.
I ONLY HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITIZENS OF ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES, BECAUSE BY CONTINUING TO TRAP AND KILL COYOTES ONLY MEANS THAT THOSE CITIES WILL END UP WITH TRIPLE THE AMOUNT OF COYOTES NEXT SEASON DUE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF MOTHER NATURE, THEREFORE THE MORE YOU TRAP AND KILL COYOTES, THE MORE YOU WILL HAVE.
FINAL RESULT–ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE BETTER HAVE A BOTTOMLESS BANK ACCOUNT AND FOR THE TAX PAYERS AND CITIZENS OF THOSE CITIES, YOU BETTER VOTE FOR MORE INTELLIGENT AND ANIMAL FRIENDLY PEOPLE TO RUN YOUR CITY !
LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES–STOP THE TRAPPING, STOP THE GASSING–STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR SACRED WILDLIFE
ON BEHALF OF OUR UNIONS, NATIVE AMERICANS AND ANIMAL ADVOCATES, WERE WATCHING YOU!
Randal,
You know what I’m for? Wise stewardship of both government and nature.
You know what I’m not for? Imposition of messianic quasi-religious beliefs onto the unwilling — as well as blaming pet owners for any harm to their pets (or worse.)
Maybe it’s that your caps lock key appears to be broken, but to me you don’t seem able to discuss these things rationally.
The “triple the coyotes” hydra’s head (look it up if you need to) theory of evolution you offer is more reason to think that you’re a bit unmoored.
By all means, leave enough coyotes around to kill rats, if that’s the best way to do it. But if that means killing lots of pets too, then it’s not likely the best way.
HELLO MR DIAMOND,
I ALWAYS WELCOME COMMENTS FROM THE OTHER SIDE AND DIFFERING OPINIONS, IF WE DIDNT HAVE THAT, THE WORLD WOULD BE A BORING PLACE, MAYBE A BIT MORE PEACEFUL BUT NEVER THE LESS MORE BORING.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT GOOD STEWARDSHIP IN BOTH GOVERNMENT AND NATURE, BUT SOMEHOW OR SOMEWHERE THE TRUTH OR FACTS HAVE BECOME LOST IN THE NARRATIVE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, LIKE SPENDING $ 150 MILLION TAX DOLLARS A YEAR TO ROUND UP WILD MUSTANGS AND BURROS BECAUSE THE CATTLE RANCHING AND MINING INTERESTS WANT THEM GONE, WHEN IN REALITY HORSES AND BURROS PLAY AN INTRICATE ROLE IN THE ECO SYSTEM WHILE CATTLE AND SHEEP RUIN AND DEGRADE THE LAND,MUCH LIKE THE COYOTES AND OTHER PREDATORS THAT HELP US, BUT YET LOOK HOW WE THANK THEM.
SO WE THE TAX PAYERS ARE ON THE HOOK FOR MILLIONS TO KILL WILDLIFE.
JUST LIKE CITIES THAT SPEND TAX DOLLARS TO PAY A TRAPPER THAT PREYS UPON THE IGNORANCE AND FEARS OF PEOPLE THAT DONT KNOW ANY BETTER.
AND GETTING BACK TO ME WRITING IN CAPS.
YES, I DO WRITE IN ALL CAPS AS MANY OF OUR MEMBERS IN OUR ORGANIZATION PREFER IT AND MANY HAVE VISION ISSUES.
MANY OF THEM ARE OLDER OR SHOULD I SAY MORE MATURE IN AGE.
UNLIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD, WE DONT CAST OUR OLDER FOLK’S ASIDE AND THROW THEM TO THE WAY SIDE, WE SHOW THEM THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE.
I CAME FROM A PROFESSIONAL FAMILY, WHICH IN OUR LINE OF WORK LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE DEPT, THE MILITARY AND THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WE OFTEN USED CAPS AS IT WAS USED FOR CAUSE, EFFECT, IMPACT, CLARITY AND STRONG EMPHASIS ON THE SUBJECT MATTER, BUT ENOUGH LESSONS ON ETIQUETTE AND PROTOCOL.
I UNDERSTAND THAT IN TODAYS AGE AND THE COMPUTER GENERATION MANY PEOPLE LOOK DOWN AT WRITING IN CAPS AS THEY SAY IT IS SHOUTING AND DISRESPECTFUL.
NO DISRESPECT OR SHOUTING INTENDED,
BUT THE STREET MUST GO BOTH WAYS AND EVEN TODAY MANY PROFESSIONALS STILL WRITE IN CAPS, BUT ENOUGH LESSONS FROM THE PAST, LETS GET TO THE PRESENT SUBJECT AT HAND ( COYOTES).
BEING THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION DOES”NT COME WITHOUT ATTACKS AND OPINIONS THAT DONT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH YOURS.
BUT WORKING IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, BEING TRAINED AND WORKING WITH THE FED’S AND INVESTIGATIONS, I LEARNED MANY THINGS, BUT ONE THING STOOD OUT ABOVE THE REST, YOU CAN ONLY USE WHAT YOU CAN PROVE IN A COURT OF LAW OTHERWISE IT WILL BE DISMISSED OR LOOKED UPON AS CONJECTURE WHICH WONT HELP YOUR CASE.
IN THIS CASE, PROFESSIONALS, BIOLOGISTS, ECOLOGISTS AND EVEN FISH AND WILDLIFE AGREE THAT TRAPPING, GASSING AND KILLING COYOTES ONLY MAKES THE PROBLEM WORSE AS IT ONLY INCREASES THE NUMBERS WHICH IN TURN MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT ONLY HAVE THE ALPHA PAIRS MATING BUT NOW YOU WILL HAVE THE BETA PAIRS MATING, WHICH INSTEAD OF MAYBE 2 OR 3 PAIR OF COYOTES GIVING BIRTH TO PUPS, YOU WILL NOW HAVE 6 OR 9 PAIR MATING, AND MR DIAMOND, YOU CAN THANK MOTHER NATURE FOR THAT.
THIS ISNT MY FIRST RODEO AS OUR ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MANY ANIMAL RIGHTS FIGHTS OVER THE YEARS WHICH WE HAVE CELEBRATED SOME VICTORIES AS WE OFTEN TEAMED UP WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO WIN THESE BATTLES LIKE PROTECTING WOLVES RETURNING TO CALIFORNIA, OR THE HOUND DOG HUNTING OF BEARS AND BOBCATS WHICH WE STOPPED OR HALTING BOBCAT TRAPPING AND MANY MORE FIGHTS, TO MANY TO MENTION.
AND WHILE PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAY WISH TO CONTINUE TO DEMONIZE OUR BEST FRIEND THE COYOTE, LOOK AT THE ALTERNATIVE WHICH I POINTED OUT IN MY OTHER COMMENT OR BETTER YET, LETS RELEASE WOLVES HERE WHICH ARE ARCH ENEMIES OF THE COYOTE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
MR DIAMOND, EDUCATION IS ALWAYS FIRST AND FOREMOST, AND IT IS ONLY OBVIOUS THAT THE COUNCIL AND THE PEOPLE OF ANAHEIM, TORRANCE, MAR VISTA AND RANCHO PALOS VERDES NEED A FEW LESSONS ON HOW TO DEAL WITH WILDLIFE.
BUT DONT LISTEN TO ME, LOOK AT ALL THE CITIES AND YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT DECIDED AGAINST TRAPPING, GASSING AND MURDERING COYOTES, CITIES LIKE FULLERTON, GLENDORA, ORANGE, CALABASAS, GLENDALE, PASADENA, OR BETTER YET PHOENIX, CHICAGO, NEW YORK JUST TO NAME A FEW.
CALL ME WHAT YOU WILL, BUT THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, NO MATTER HOW MANY EXCUSES YOU COME UP WITH TO TRAP AND KILL COYOTES, THE TRUTH IS—IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT MR DIAMOND AND YOUR TIME.
RANDAL MASSARO
You should remove your all caps, your comments will be easier to read without them.
KUDOS TO PETA FOR JOINING IN THE FIGHT WITH MATTHEW DUNCAN AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE COYOTES FROM BEING TRAPPED AND GASSED AND THAT’S PUTTING IT LIGHTLY, WE IN THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CALL IT INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER AND MURDER OF OUR SACRED WILDLIFE.
NOTE: WE WRITE IN ALL CAPS FOR OUR VISUALLY IMPAIRED MEMBERS, NO DISRESPECT INTENDED
BUT MATTER WHAT FISH AND WILDLIFE SAYS OR PETA OR EVEN MATT DUNCAN, THEY CAN SHOW THE ANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL AND THE TORRANCE CITY COUNCIL FACTS, FIGURES AND NUMBERS ALL DAY AND IT WONT MATTER BECAUSE IN THE END WE ARE TALKING TO THE 3 MONKEYS THAT SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL AND SEE NO EVIL, IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE.
BUT GO AHEAD AND KEEP SPENDING THOSE TAX DOLLARS YEAR AFTER YEAR AND IN THE END YOU WILL SEE THAT MATT DUNCAN, FISH AND WILDLIFE AND PETA ARE RIGHT, FOR THE PROOF IN THE PUDDING IS, TRAPPING , GASSING AND KILLING COYOTES DOES NOT WORK!
IN THE END YOU ARE CREATING A WORSE NIGHTMARE AND A LARGER POPULATION OF COYOTES WHICH WILL BE SMARTER AND MORE COY THAN THE ONES THAT GOT CAUGHT AND WERE KILLED AS THEY WILL HAVE LARGER LITTERS OR MORE TRANSIENT COYOTES WILL COME IN TO TAKE THEIR PLACE..
ONCE MORE A SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO VERN OF THE ORANGE JUICE BLOG FOR FOLLOWING THE STORY ON THE COYOTES AND CONSIDERING IT TO BE A NEWS WORTHY STORY AND TO MATT DUNCAN FOR BEING A VOICE FOR THE ONES THAT CANT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND TO PETA FOR EXPOSING THE PLIGHT OF THE COYOTES IN ANAHEIM AND TORRANCE.
RANDAL MASSARO
UNION MEMBERS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL
I REPRESENT UMPW. I WORK CLOSELY WITH MATT AND RANDY. WE ARE THE WHISTLE BLOWERS AND WATCH DOGS AT THE GRASSROOTS. WE AT UMPW BELIEVE THAT ENFORCEMENT IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT CONFRONTATION. WE BELIEVE THAT TRAPPING, POACHING, AND HUNTING PROTECTED NATIONAL TREASURES IS AN ATROCITY. WE GUIDE WILDLIFE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE PETA, CITY GOVERNMENT’S, AND STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES LIKE BLM AND DEPT OF AGRICULTURE IN PROPER DEALING WITH WILDLIFE AND ENFORCEMENT IF REGULATIONS. WE GO TOE TO TOE WITH CATTLE RANCHERS AND EVEN NATIVE AMERICANS THAT HAVE LOST THEIR WAY, SELLING HORSES FOR SLAUGHTER. MEDIUMS LIKE BLOGS CAN BE USEFUL, BUT THE FIGHT IS ON THE STREET AND THE BALLOT BOX. THE FONT OR TYPE THAT A BLOGGER USES TO SEND A MESSAGE IS IRRELEVANT AND ANTI REVOLUTIONARY. GROWN MEN DONT TRY TO CONTROL OTHER GROWN MEN IN ANY WAY. KEEP THE FIGHT ALIVE. STAY UNIFIED. THE UMPW WAY. UMPW, WE ON THE MOVE!
OK but NEVER AGAIN comment here in ALL CAPS – it is TOO HARD TO READ! OK????
To editor Vern Nelson, thank you for your support in getting the word out about what Anaheim is doing as well as Rizzo. Tax payer dollars being spent in ventures that are inhumane, ineffective, and indiscriminate is un- American. Id like to address a comment on pet ownership as well. The pet owner is 100% responsible for their pet. If the pet owner chooses to live in a city that has lots of wildlife like coyotes, then they cannot blame the Coyote. If the pet owner chooses to adopt a small dog verses a large dog that could defend itself against a Coyote, that too is owner responsibility. We as a people need to stop demonizing animals to justify, rationalize, minimize, or explain why something should or should not be. There is a natural order of things. To circumvent that natural order could be very costly in the end for us. Our willingness to kill wildlife is a precursor to killing man and mankind. We are UMPW look forward to working with all to save our planet and our wildlife, and each other. Peace.
What is it that appeals to you about the “Night Riders”? Their standing up to predatory corporations? Or their committing acts of sabotage and terror under cover of darkness?
Are you making an implicit (or explicit) threat here?