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It’s all over the CA and AZ deserts. For at least a decade I have witnessed it destroy small game and coyotes. Along with mange and the general public using an insane amount of poison to keep the rat population down, there will be no wildlife left.
The combination is an environmental death spiral.
That’s why I laugh at the preppers. Do they think they will be the seeds for the future? Because they won’t. They’re just morons. ESPECIALLY the rich ones.
It is not contagious to coyotes, canines are either too short-lived to show symptoms or their scavenging-optimized digestive tracts are capable of destroying it, much like all the other horrible stuff that goes down their gullet.
It's not naturally contagious to small game either, but only to cervids. If your small game are sick, I would blame poisons both intentionally set and oversprayed by farmers. Here in the hills we have plenty of small game but the flat farmland areas are barren from all the spraying. Only rats, mice and coyotes left there.
Almost all of our deer here in my part of Saskatchewan are dead from CWD now. More coyotes than ever before though, and it's rare that you see one that looks sick in any way. Almost a shame as if there's any single animal that we wouldn't miss out here, it's the coyote.
Doesn't have to be contagious to canines, it just has to severely reduce their sources of food.
What if the preppers have an underground zoo to repopulate the earth with, Noah’s ark style?