The Canid Project

16/10/2024

The city of Kenner, Louisiana in Jefferson Parish is at it again! Indiscriminately trapping and killing coyotes. The best available science and the public’s values do not support the unregulated and indiscriminate killing of coyotes.

The indiscriminate killing of coyotes will not reduce their populations. Coyotes are native to North America. Since 1850 when mass killings of coyotes began in the U.S., their range has tripled. Persecution of coyotes disrupts their social structure, which, ironically, encourages more breeding and migration, and ultimately results in more coyotes, to start.

If you want to reach out to the Kenner government to voice your opposition to this short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective waste of money - paid for with tax dollars - please email:
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

To learn more about this issue and sustainable, science-backed, and humane alternative to indiscriminate killing of coyotes, please visit thecanidproject.com The Canid Project

16/10/2024

The city of Kenner, Louisiana in Jefferson Parish is at it again! Indiscriminately trapping and killing coyotes. The best available science and the public’s values do not support the unregulated and indiscriminate killing of coyotes.

The indiscriminate killing of coyotes will not reduce their populations. Coyotes are native to North America. Since 1850 when mass killings of coyotes began in the U.S., their range has tripled. Persecution of coyotes disrupts their social structure, which, ironically, encourages more breeding and migration, and ultimately results in more coyotes, to start.

If you want to reach out to the Kenner government to voice your opposition to this short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective waste of money - paid for with tax dollars - please email:
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

To learn more about this issue and sustainable, science-backed, and humane alternative to indiscriminate killing of coyotes, please visit thecanidproject.com The Canid Project

Geaux Wild Rehab Tails of Nature Wolf Conservation Center
Karin Hargrave Saucedo Project Coyote The Humane Society of the United States WVUE FOX 8 Unfiltered With Kiran

05/10/2024

yay! Zelda!

13/08/2024

Fox Friends! We need your help! ❤

My colleague Skye of Tails of Nature here in Louisiana, has a terribly unfortunate case of two red fox kits needing a lot of care to pull through their issues. As of right now the vet bills are at $700. Malnutrition, partial lameness, muscle atrophy, bone issues, anorexia, extreme anemia, to mention a few of the issues currently being addressed.

*The saddest part of this all is that these foxes' issues are due primarily to diet/malnutrition, because a layperson with no knowledge of basic red fox nutritional needs took them from the wild 3+ months ago and tried to raise them*

If you are able to donate (see the post below) it would be so appreciated as we want to try to correct this wrong if there is still time. Alternatively you can pay the vet directly by calling and asking them to place the donation on Tails of Nature's account. Veterinary Associates of Acadiana 1-(337) 534-8228
More updates soon!!

20/07/2024

We had a pretty devastating blow yesterday when a couple of huge trees came down on our enclosure.

This video shows 2/3 of the damaged area. The part not visible in the video is of the entire covered area with a roof and the covered sally port. It’s completely smashed/destroyed.

Everyone is ok, thankfully, but we need to repair this asap. Please consider a small donation if you are able so we can get back up and running again.

Venmo: @ canidproject (Amy Shutt)
Or visit https://www.thecanidproject.com/contribute

Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

26/06/2024

Owl is now here and transport is arranged for the morning ❤️ thank you Tara🦉🥰

Need emergency transport to LSU...is anyone available to help first thing tomorrow morning? Owl is located in Springfield

Please call/text me if you can help
504-491-8036

06/04/2024

Mama Coyote Update April 5+6, 2024.

Well, what can change in a day with these animals is amazing. Yesterday morning we went to the vet to get a pelvic xray to make sure there were no pelvic fractures. Thankfully, there were none (see the end of the video for the xray pic).

After we got back here yesterday she rested for some time, clearly just exhausted from a very stressful outing. Then after a few hours, it was like a light turned on and all of the sudden she was aware! aware of her surroundings, of me, of sounds etc. She started looking at me, looking out into the woods, and started scanning the entire enclosed area—looking for a vulnerable spot to plan her escape.

This morning, after a meal she started working on two of the most vulnerable spots to make her escape. I want to get her back out to her territory asap.

This is how it goes with adult red foxes and adult coyotes in my experiences — when they feel well enough and are ready to go they will hurt themselves to get out. I am concerned she’s going to break a canine or jaw trying to do so—she’s pulling heavy duty wood staples out and trying to pry 10 gauge wire off the door! These instincts are so hard-wired.

Amazing how these animals heal so quickly. I bet the fact that those babies are coming soon is another factor in her urgency as well. I do not want her to be in captivity when they are born. I am very concerned she will maim or eat the babies if they are born here to a stressed mom—it happens often with stressed moms in captivity, in fur farms etc.

We will be monitoring her from the camera all day and will be paying close attention to her mobility, her displacement behaviors which could be self harming, and her general awareness. I will then make a decision on when she will be released.

THANKS to all who have contributed to her care!!!

04/04/2024

A higher up employee at very large Louisiana state institution in Baton Rouge made the ridiculous short-sighted and counterproductive decision to trap 8 week old BABY FOXES and separate them from their mom, dad, and older sister and to euthanize them.

Thankfully the first one caught was saved by Geaux Wild Rehab, as the employee directed by the higher up employee of the state institution thought he should look for an alternative to euthanasia and got in touch. THIS IS NOT THE BEST OUTCOME FOR THE BABIES OR THE INSTITUTION WHOSE LAND HAS HAD FOX FAMILIES FOR OVER 20 YEARS.

And, sadly, this will all be for nothing in the end, because they have opened up a vacancy for another fox to fill and they will be back next year. I am so sick of people doing the crappy thing, and wildlife rehabbers have to rear a perfectly healthy animal that takes the space of a possible injured or sick animal in need. Please read the post.

04/04/2024

Mama Coyote update!
We sent a few security videos like the one below to our regular Vet at Veterinary Associates of Acadiana so he could see how she is getting up and down and walking/moving. He is highly suspicious that she may have a pelvic fracture. So, we will be heading to him tomorrow morning to get x-rays just so we know one way or the other so we can move forward in a plan for her. We need (and appreciate! ) continued support from those who would like and are able to contribute to her care, and esp to this upcoming vet bill. 🤗
🐺❤️🦊

The Canid Project is committed to continuing her supportive care to help her heal so that she may be allowed fo care for her babies once born. This mama is old (about 8 yrs) with worn down teeth to show it, has been shot (saw the birdshot and buckshot on her abdominal x-ray), was loaded with hookworms and anemic, and has suffered an injury that has compromised her mobility and ability to care for herself due to a car strike or the like, and may have lost her mate and/or has been displaced from her territory. She needs a break, and we are happy to help.

THANK YOU all who sent in donations for this mama so far! So grateful for you all. ❤️

Contributions can be sent via
VENMO to @ canidproject
Paypal: [email protected]
or through our website Donorbox at http://www.thecanidproject.com
THANK YOU!

03/04/2024

Here’s an update on The Canid Project coyote intake from Sunday. She’s been moved to a small enclosure and is walking a bit, though it’s difficult for her. She continues to eat and take meds. I was able to clean her up a bit (tail and back legs) thankfully bc she was coated in muck and mud and who knows how long it’s been there. We will continue to give her support to help her heal.

THANK YOU all who sent in donations for this mama and her wee ones! i will send you all messages individually soon. So grateful for you all. ❤️

We will need continued support to those who would like and are able to contribute.

Contributions can be sent via
VENMO to @ canidproject
and Paypal: [email protected]
or through our website at http://www.thecanidproject.com
THANK YOU!

02/04/2024

Here's an update on the coyote intake from Sunday. We went with Geaux Wild Rehab to see her vet yesterday since she could get us in early at 8 am. Surprise! Miss coyote is pregnant with 9 wee ones. See the red dots at each baby skull in the x-ray picture. And we need continued support to those who wwould like and are able to contribute.

02/04/2024

01/04/2024

We really need your signatures! :) We need 500 by Wednesday night so we can send a statement along with the signatures to the Louisiana House and Senate. PLEASE go here: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/242/238/690/help-protect-louisianas-wildlife-and-oppose-hcr-6for more info on the bill trying to get passed, and if you oppose the bill please sign the petition. Also, see this letter included here of opposition by Carney Nasser, which she sent to her district Senator and House Representative. She gave me permission to share it. Please read to get a sense of how detrimental this bill, if passed, could be!

Carney Anne Nasser is the big cat expert and animal protection attorney who pitched the wildlife trafficking case against “Tiger King” Joe Exotic that triggered the investigation leading to his conviction for multiple federal crimes and a 22 year prison sentence. Carney Anne Nasser, Esq.
carneyannenasser.com
Podcast: Tiger Talk With Carney Anne Nasser
Co-executive Producer: The Conservation Game

01/04/2024

We need some help today for this injured coyote. We were contacted today about a coyote who seemed like she couldn’t walk and a little dazed. I drove the 1.5 hour drive and she was nowhere to be found. But, as I searchedI saw a little nose poking out of a culvert! I’ll be taking him to the vet tomorrow for x-rays.
I need to raise about $300 for the vet bill. If you would like to contribute please Venmo: canidproject or see our donation page at our website https://www.thecanidproject.com ! THANK U! ❤️
PS The second pic is part of the awesome family who called me about the coyote. Bill on the left is a crawfish farmer and fisherman. He was so helpful and did a good job assisting me with the coyote catch. They invited me to have Easter Lunch with them - We had fresh Crawfish and Fish Couvillion, fried shrimp and a bunch of other delicious stuff! So nice-I loved hearing the stories about the wolves they used to hear and see out there several years ago, especially with those cajun accents.

I'll post more tomorrow once we've seen the vet. Thanks again! Keep this little one in your thoughts!

29/03/2024

Louisiana Wildlife Needs Our Help! Our wildlife is under threat, and we need your help now!

HCR 6, a Louisiana House Concurrent Resolution, was proposed this week during the current House session, and is barreling through, aiming to amend the Louisiana Wildlife Rehabilitation Program regulations. This was set in motion without consulting the current permitted rehabilitators, who are the local experts in this field. See link below to read more and show support....

Also please see our Google Drive ( link below) on this concurrent resolution, with the documents of the HCR 6, current Wildlife Rehabilitation Regs, examples of our letters of opposition submitted this past week:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nkCArKkI0r9XIvIi2Mki5JOU2zmHn44G?usp=sharing

And this link will help you find your legislator and their contact info: https://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/H_Reps_FullInfo

Louisiana Wildlife Needs Our Help! Our wildlife is under threat, and we need your help now! HCR 6, a Louisiana House concurrent Resolution, was proposed this

29/03/2024

04/11/2023

Know what your tax dollars are going to, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. We encourage communities to find more long term, cost efficient, humane and sustainable options to reduce human-wildlife conflict. Thanks so very much to Project Coyote for collaborating on this issue with The Canid Project.

26/09/2023

Fox surgery happening today with . I’ll update with a post about it once we are situated afterwards. Stay tuned! If you are
interested in helping with the costs for the surgery and/or our rehab and outreach efforts, Venmo @ thecanidroject or see link in bio!
The Canid Project is a Louisiana-based wild canid education and outreach non-profit that features a Red Fox, Gray Fox and Coyote Rescue and Rehabilitation outfit. These programs can not exist without the public's generous ongoing support! Thank you!

17/09/2023

30/08/2023

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‼️ Only four collared wild Mexican gray wolves currently survive in Mexico. ‼️

Conservationists sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service () this week, warning about the severely low numbers of Mexican gray wolves in Mexico. The agency relies on the Mexican population of wolves as a buttress against extinction in the United States.

Just four remaining radio-collared wolves are alive, joined by a likely very low number of uncollared individuals, according to information obtained through a public records request.

“The recent data highlighting severely low populations of wild wolves in Mexico raises serious concerns over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s continued reliance upon a second recovering population in Mexico — where they have no authority to oversee recovery efforts,” said Renee Seacor, carnivore conservation advocate at Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute. “Instead, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should focus their recovery efforts on addressing persistent threats to the population, including continued illegal killings.”

Mexico has been releasing Mexican gray wolves into the wild since 2011, and the Service has been relying in part on this second population to justify its claim that U.S. lobos are “nonessential” under the Endangered Species Act. But a recent analysis by Western Watersheds Project demonstrates that only about 20% of the released collared wolves survive for longer than one year, with the median lifespan in the wild being approximately two and a half months.

Read the full media release through our link in bio.



📷 Monty Sloan

09/08/2023

T-shirt Fundraiser For The Gray Foxes!

You can support The Canid Project through this Bonfire campaign! We currently need help with costs for daily feedings, and upcoming vaccinations for the gray foxes, to prepare them for their release in early September!

Support the grays with a new tee designed by Amy Shutt. Buy a shirt and the profits go directly to the grays’ care. We are a Louisiana-based Red Fox, Gray Fox and Coyote Rescue and Rehabilitation center. These programs can not exist without the public’s generous ongoing support.

See the link in our bio or go to:

https://www.bonfire.com/grayfoxes-tcp
Or
https://tr.ee/A6uoRVbykK

21/06/2023

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Howling out to for making this a success in New York! 🐺🗣️✊🏽

Vermont was the second state in the country to ban coyote killing contests, but we have more work to do. Next step is banning ALL killing contests, including squirrels, raccoons and other wildlife.

26/05/2023

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🦊 Thousands of gray foxes are killed for sport each year with assault rifles equipped with thermal scopes, electronic calls, traps, and poisons. Shockingly, these methods are entirely legal, sanctioned by most state wildlife agencies across the country, and subsequently used in wildlife killing contests to kill as many target animals as possible within an allotted time frame.

Animals targeted in these senseless bloodsport events play vital roles in maintaining a balanced ecosystem. Gray foxes actively regulate rodents that could otherwise damage agricultural crops or facilitate the spread of diseases. Killing essential species in our ecosystems for sport goes against ethics and is *not* supported by the best available science.

🧡 Join the growing community of photographers and videographers, from amateur to professional, who have signed our petition calling for an end to wildlife killing contests. Click the link in our bio to join the campaign!



📷 Dan Elster, |

08/03/2023

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