In the United States, we have large predators that can do real damage to stock, and as a consequence we are pretty phlegmatic about the red fox, which generally dines on nothing larger than a young rabbit.
Even in states with large sheep concerns, fox predation is considered to be so low that it is not worth keeping statistics on. Only owners of duck ponds worry much about fox.
That cannnot be said for the coyote, which can now be found in every mainland state of the Union, with the Eastern Coyote being significantly larger than its Western cousin.
Coyote control is not open to much debate in the U.S., where we shoot over 400,000 a year. In Virginia, where I live, we have a bounty on them, yet they are now found in every County, including those that are most decidedly suburban -- and their numbers are rapidly increasing.
To read more, see >> "The Ultimate Survivor" from Audubon magazine, one of the largest environmental publications in the U.S.
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