I also have been around it for 68 years now. When I was younger there were very few coyotes and we could go out and shoot a few cotton tails for supper and did not have any trouble raising sheep or goats. Now there are no rabbits to speak of and coyotes are now so numerous you can't raise many young animals. I have raised no BB or Mouflon in the last 3 years. And that is not counting the Ibex I have had killed. So to me the only purpose of a coyote is to be killed any way I can.