It makes no sense that animal lovers support predation The so-called animal lovers seem to have a special affinity for predators. A mountain lion's understanding of "love" falls in the category of "a great liking or fondness" for warm flesh, from house cat and dog to human children. Coyotes are carnivores that are virtually nondiscriminating. I heard the cries of a deer one winter night and discovered these "precious carnivores" ripping the intestines out of a still-living doe deer. Coyotes are great killers, but wolves are better. I guess you could call the way wolves and coyotes operate to control elk and deer populations as teamwork. Can you imagine the outrage if slaughterhouses killed livestock by running them down, hamstringing them and gutting the still-living animals?....