Mr. Middleton, I'm glad you seem to have all the answers. You should take over the county program, which is not by the way Wildlife services. Natrona county has a private predator control program ran by a board made up of the sheepmen in the county. Go tell Mills, Owens, Forgeys, Dodds, and Martons to fire Fish and hire you, because you have all the answers and are taking over. Explain to them when and where they should run the plane or chopper and then have them come up with the money to do it. I'd be curious as to how far you get. You crack me up! I'd really like to see you explain to Fish what he is doing wrong, when he has a whole county to over see, and you are talking about one small deal on a miniscule portion of the county. I'm sure you killed a coyote or two, there are plenty around. Who knows if you did any good or not, maybe maybe not. Even you don't know. I tried to explain in another thread that it is pretty important to clean up a group of coyotes completely or the killing isn't likely to stop. But you don't seem to grasp the whole picture. If you were competant and had the time to do things correctly, including finding and taking all the adults and pups, Fish probably wouldn't have a problem with you calling in the summer in the sheep that he is trying to protect. But what usually happens in these deals is something gets screwed up and the problem gets worse and when he get another call from the person that let you in, he has to come out and spend days trying to solve a problem that normally would have taken him a day if the coyotes hadn't beed called and shot at already, and probably have been moved three times. Then to top that off, he has no clue what is left there for adults and may spend an extra day looking for a coyote that isn't there, but he's thorough and has to spend the time doing so, all the while, while he has wasted three of four days cleaning up someone elses mess, somebody else in the county is having the same problems elsewhere and has lost a bunch more lambs because Fish can't get there fast enough because he was trying to finish up someone elses screw up. You can bet that he will not be a happy camper in these situations. And you have to also realize that for him he has more than one person to answer to. While he is trying to get everywhere he needs to be, the guys that are losing sheep have his number on speed dial, and they will deliver a butt chewing to him that you are indirectly responsible for. There is more to it than whacking a coyote occasionally and thinking you done good because it was in the sheep. Like I said in the other thread, I know what Fish does and is capable of and how hard he works. If you are taking between 600 and 1000 coyotes a year by yourself, you aren't having many days off and I'll guarantee that if you call his house at 5 am he ain't there, he's already gone, and if you call his house before 10 pm, he ain't there then either. In his time in Natrona county, I would venture that he has killed somewhere around 10,000 coyotes. How do you like those numbers?