[sivex]

There can not exist symbiosis between docile domesticated animals and native wild predators. Articles that shame current control methods without providing alternatives aren't helping the cause. If predation of livestock is allowed in the absence of lethal management, you'll read an NPR article in a decade about "Tax payers fund feeding of wildlife" when ranchers get paid out for livestock that's killed.

[danaris]

This is presenting it as much more black and white than it really is.

There is definitely a middle ground somewhere between "kill off any native carnivores that could possibly come near a multi-thousand-acre ranch" and "just let them kill the whole herd lol".

[zw7]

The article briefly mentions non-lethal methods and that they are underfunded. I worked with a grad student who was doing research (supported by the USDA IIRC) on different dog breeds for use as guard dogs. Ironically, sometimes the guard dogs will kill a calf — they assume due to boredom and playing too rough.