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Authorities looking for person who dumped dead coyotes - 02/09/10 11:06 PM
By ABC-7's Andrew Chung
The discovery of approximately 47 dead coyotes Friday on Azogue Avenue in far East El Paso was a disturbing sight.
While the area has been cleaned up, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department continues to investigate. Game warden Ray Spears says the coyotes were shot as part of a "varmint hunt".
"We have a very large population of coyotes - coyotes are carriers of rabies and other diseases and so these hunters participate to kind of thin the numbers a little bit," says Spears.
And he says the hunt was perfectly legal. "All the individuals that were in this varmint hunt did have proper licenses through the state of Texas hunting licenses - they did kill these animals on properties they had permission to be on."
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The discovery of approximately 47 dead coyotes Friday on Azogue Avenue in far East El Paso was a disturbing sight.
While the area has been cleaned up, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department continues to investigate. Game warden Ray Spears says the coyotes were shot as part of a "varmint hunt".
"We have a very large population of coyotes - coyotes are carriers of rabies and other diseases and so these hunters participate to kind of thin the numbers a little bit," says Spears.
And he says the hunt was perfectly legal. "All the individuals that were in this varmint hunt did have proper licenses through the state of Texas hunting licenses - they did kill these animals on properties they had permission to be on."
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http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=11954182