The Thanksgiving Coyote Killer

Thanksgiving to me is a time to reflect on what I am thankful for. For me it is the time to say thank you for a healthy family and an abundance of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and thank you for the unconditional love of friends.


It is a time to hope for peace in the world, wishing for enough food on the table for everyone, especially the children of the world. It is a time to share joy as well as sorrow, a time of storytelling of days gone by.


Thanksgiving is not a time to be confronted in my own front yard with a dead Coyote. We live three houses away from open land, eleven years ago I used to hike the trails, no longer, it is too dangerous and too sad. ATV’s has destroyed the area; the ground is littered with garbage people feel justified to dump, as well as empty shells.


It is widely known that I do not believe in owning a gun or using a weapon of any kind. However, it is also well known that I believe in leaving the choice up to the individual whether to own one or not. It is utterly stupid of me to expect these people shooting on the open land to pick up their empty shells, they don't and they poison the land.


What I expect of the gun owner is not to shoot innocent animals and not having the skill or decency to at least shoot to kill. This inhuman shot the coyote to wound, not kill and the animal suffered. I am sad that I did not find the coyote while it could have been helped. What kind of hateful person did this?


I'm not a bible thumper, but I remember from my religion classes in Germany the sentence "as you sow, so shall you reap", some call it Karma, I call it what goes around comes around and I hope that this inhuman will get his in time.