Setting boundaries is one of the hallmarks of successful human relationships, and recent human-animal interactions gone wrong indicate that our interactions with Colorado’s wildlife can benefit from boundaries, as well. “Boundaries are not separation,” researcher and author Brené Brown said. “They are respect.” It was not respectful for folks in (Colorado’s) Yuma last month to […]
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Opinion: It’s time to ban wildlife killing contests in Colorado
The photographs are disarming: dozens of coyotes, their fur smeared with blood, strewn across the ground while grown men and sometimes children stand over them, proudly grinning from ear to ear. This is a familiar scene at wildlife killing contests, a little-known bloodsport rarely glimpsed by the general public. During these events, participants kill the […]
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Coyotes figured out how to survive in the city. Can urban Coloradans learn to coexist?
It happened quickly and quietly. In fact, it was the silence that made David Brosh wonder why the family’s two white Westies, taking a quick bedtime potty break, hadn’t barked to come back inside. On a frigid Sunday night in early December, he let them into the tiny yard behind their Parker home. It was […]