[R_haterade]

Your outlook on the human prerogative for mastery of his environment is absolutely fascinating to me.

[yial]

"Don’t believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." loosely related

[Ygg2]

Consequently, "You don't owe world anything. Tame it to your whim."

[ridgeguy]

Yeah. It wouldn't keep me from defending (a pet, me, my wife, a kid in the neighborhood) from a coyote attack, but I don't have a reason to make their lives more difficult. Fellow mammals, just getting through life, etc.

And it's my (illusory) hope that they'll eat the occasional gopher while they're in my yard. The gophers compete with me for food. The coyotes don't. Yet.