State wildlife officials have drafted a new coyote hunting law intended to prevent live coyotes from being illegally sold to people who then hunt them down with dogs.
The proposed rule change was drafted after the Indiana Department of Natural Resources learned last year that coyotes trapped in Indiana were being exported to Southern states for use as live bait at hound-dog facilities.
Linnea Petercheff, operations staff specialist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' division of fish and wildlife, told The Star Press of Muncie that there was "confusion among trappers as to what they could legally do" with coyotes they had trapped.
"Some thought the term 'prompt disposal' meant as long as they promptly got rid of the coyote by selling it, then they were complying with the regulations," Petercheff said.
The Indiana Natural Resources Commission, which drafted the new rule, is planning public hearings before considering final adoption of the changes to Indiana's administrative code governing coyotes.
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Trapping is inhumane and unsportsmanlike. I am for letting trappers commit these atrocities, but they need to quickly take misey away from these beautiful creatures. I hunt coyotes in Southern Indiana. I do not allow these animals to suffer, and I sure as heck would NOT take a live coyote, and sell it to some idiot who would abuse it.
Coyotes can be mean, but not as mean as people. Shame on those who would allow torture or ill treatment.
In Freedom's Loving Arms,
Otemigo