Coyote dangers
The coyote’s prevailing existence in Leisure World is surely getting dangerous.
It greatly affects my early morning walks and evening as well.
I’m always on the lookout, fearing to encounter one, which I was not previously used to.
Since dogs were allowed in Leisure World, the coyotes existing here slowly but surely multiplied.
And now the shareholders’ safety is in danger.
Hopefully, our peaceful walks, visiting friends, going to club houses, library, swimming pool, etc., will be restored to the way it was.
Lisa A. Dickson
Seal Beach Leisure World
Killing coyotes is wrong
We can agree to disagree about a lot of things, but at the end of the day Seal Beach’s policy just won’t work.
I know they want it to work but not only is there evidence that it won’t, but in the long term may well make the coyote problem worse (for the reasons described below).
Being upset about facts doesn’t change facts.
It is a complicated situation and, frankly requires a complicated solution.
I get it that some people will feel good to hear a few coyotes were trapped and killed.
But in the long term you will find yourself with a new generation of coyotes, and then another one and then another one.
They are just too smart and adaptable to kill off and then for us to think that will be the end of it.
The other stuff Seal Beach voted to do (that I described at the end of my email below) is a step in the right direction … Trapping and killing coyotes was not.
‘Cause it just won’t work.
Elizabeth Lambe
Seal Beach
Intolerable
If a rogue elephant (lion, tribe, think ISIS in Syria, Nazi in Warsaw, etc) was terrorizing a “civilized,” established culture, what do you think the correct response should be?
History has and continues to show that the “superior” cultures/animals/etc. rule.
This may be what evolution is all about.
While I applaud your zeal, I believe that when members of our species become at risk (most likely children, babies, elderly and other human life that cannot reasonably be defended in a protected, urban environment) that direct and positive action to eliminate that threat is desirable and appropriate.
I don’t think coyotes and their threat are any different from the “grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, bob cats and foxes that once roamed our local lands” you cite.
A rogue mountain lion in Hollywood would not be tolerated. Neither should coyotes in Seal Beach.
So, when you state, “ … we as humans have a responsibility to steward all the earth’s creatures …” I think an addendum might be appropriate.
Have you noticed that Leisure World has, over the past months, heightened their wall along Seal Beach Boulevard to an impossible height that any human could scale, with metal tabs along the top, to further discourage anything (coyotes?, people?, mice?) that should wish to make the attempt? Maybe we should dig a moat around Seal Beach … oh, I forgot … I think coyotes can swim.
Oh, what to do?
Ken Kropf
Seal Beach
Anti-graffiti email
Thanks for the coverage. The email address in the article is incorrect, should be graffitiremoval@sealbeachlions.org. The address in the article has an extra T in the email address. Thanks.
Lion Ray Longoria
Chairperson, Lions Against Graffiti
Seal Beach
Navy Golf Course
Great story on Joe Grohman, head professional at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress in the Sept. 25 Sun Newspaper. And a great golf course it is to play.
Joe Grohman is one of the nicest people I have ever met and he really helps the physically handicapped Veterans who want to play golf.
A few months ago he invited me and many others to the course to see the wheelchair special mobility device for those Veterans who have little or no use of their legs and severe back injuries.
The device I believe was called the Paragolfer and it lifts people from a sitting position to a standing position.
By enabling the upright posture, the Paragolfer allows unrestricted shoulder movement.
This freedom is not only a huge benefit on the golf course; it also opens up the new possibilities of movement during a range of other activities. There were twenty wheelchair-bound Veterans brought to the Navy Golf Course from the Long Beach Veterans Hospital by bus and all of them had the chance to use the Paragolfer. They also had putters with a small wheel on the putter to enable the handicapped to putt. After the Paragolfer show, we had a nice dinner at the Eagles Nest Restaurant at the Golf Course and then visited the Spinal Injury ward and the ward for the Blind Veterans at the Veterans Hospital Long Beach. For one who had never had any serious handicaps except my golf game, this was a wonderful experience. Joe also does this at other military golf courses. Thank you, Joe for all you do.
Paul D. Pudenz, Adjutant
Sgt. Thomas R. MacPherson
American Legion Post 857
Seal Beach
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