October 30, 2025 • 5 mins
"If coyotes are attacking pets in your neighborhood, do you trap them… or start a 2AM purge?"That’s the fiery question at the center of this unforgettable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle one of the most bizarre local stories in recent memory: DeSoto’s overnight coyote removal operation.With five documented pet attacks since June, the city decided to take action—by announcing a 2AM coyote “purge” that could include gunshots in the night. The crew dives into the ethics, logistics, and absurdity of the plan, sparking a hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt debate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the wild life lues the wild life blue all right,
our friends down in DeSoto, or they're doing something that's
a little bit unconventional. They're coding and uh, I will
(00:20):
just go ahead and give my opinion before I tell
you the story. I think this is a little questionable.
On Monday, the City of DeSoto announced that they're going
to be conducting a coyote removal operation starting at two
am Wednesday, so this would have been yesterday morning, a.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Purge o coyote purge.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dude, let's go now. This is because there have been
at least five documented coute attacks on residents pets since June.
Time to fight back, and it's resulted in the depths
of several small dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think you've got to train the dogs to fight back.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just kind of think it's the food chain, right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You're not going to defend your pet.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yep, Kyle Lee, I didn't say I wouldn't defend it.
I just said I've never really been in the head space.
You've never been in the headspace to be a protector
of anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You're out walking your beautiful little puppy. You're out walking
your beautiful puppy, and beautiful kyote. Yeah, cute, adorable puppy,
and he's like, keep I'm over here. It's just wandering around,
waddling around, so adorable, and a coyote comes and starts
eating it like a chicken nugget, and you're like, well,
that's the food chain. No, you've got to give your
(01:33):
puppy brass paws so that it can land.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah. I think the goal is just to not ever
be in that situation which not having the dog would
put me there. For me, it's funny exactly. We did
dog shit for some friends a couple of weeks ago,
and last night my wife goes, do you miss seeing
the dog? I said, not really. He was just like
it didn't make me feel any certain way that he
(01:59):
was there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's the moment just now where I realize your wife
doesn't even really know you, does she. That's the sweetest
question ever? Right, yeahs the dog. That's so awesome. That's
who you want to dog sit, somebody who actually cares
that much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I miss seeing him sitting on my spot on the couch.
Diamond sits in my seat all the time. I like
it at all. But they're cute. They when you get
one that's actually your dog. You'll understand. Yeah, no, you're right.
It's like what they say, once you see the baby,
your whole life will change. I guess who said this
visitor dog could get on the couch. Let's go back
(02:35):
to de Soto. Yep, he had dementia. I think the
dog had dimentia. So back to Soda five Kyoti attacks
on small dogs since June, but no human attacks were reported.
So what they were going to do is have a
removal operation, and which they said Desta residents might hear
(02:56):
gunshots overnight. It is the city aims to colts coyote population.
Don't do it at two am. That's not the time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Better you don't do it like when the kids get
out at three, like you need to do it at
when most people are at home.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But at two am, it's hard to tell a dog
in a coyote apart. Oh, it's dark out. There are
some dogs that look like coyotes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Dog yodes and if they're out roaming around and they're
maybe street dogs, because you would also tell people, hey, man,
keep your dogs inside. There's gonna be dudes out with
infrared scopes.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Let's start out and let's not like these cops are
always like right on the money, Like, I'll never forget
the East Dallas coyote attack that it got that kid.
Remember the attack that kid? And then they didn't even
know if it was the same one. And the officer
went to the park in the day and shot at
it and they didn't hit it either.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So it's like, so that's telling me you weren't close
to it. If you missed, you're just firing a gun
across the park in the d of the day. They
buried the lead. The lead was lady leaves small child
out unattended. You know what I'm saying, Yes, why is
your kid just out?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, your tiny toddler shouldn't be forced to square off
with a rabbit coyote. Right, Well, you're inside watching the
novella's he should be sitting in one of those chairs
with wheels on them where you can kind of scoot
around a little bit, eating some cheese ites or something.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A twenty year old resident I'll leave his name out,
but this is how the article reads in WFA. Some
of the residents are raising concerns about the operation. Here's
what a twenty year old resident of De Soto said.
He said he was stunned when they learned the killing
they'd be killing the coyotes rather than trapping and relocating. Quote,
when they were talking about actually shooting them. That touched
(04:40):
me in a certain type of way. It is weird
to just be like, you know what, don't worry, We'll
just go kill them all. Like, that's not the first
thing you should do.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let's try to find out where they're coming from first.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You want to give him some counseling you were rehabilitating.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Trap them and do what and just take them out
in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Farmland seems expensive. Who's paying for that? The Animal Relocation
Department of disoder.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
They got going on. Yeah, yeah, seriously, how are they
feeling out their days? Dude?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
If I'm living in a community where my dogs are
you know, dogs are getting eaten, I'm fighting back. Yeah,
so I want that. I'm like, yep, thank you, kill
them all, thanks, good luck. If I hear the gunshots,
I won't worry. I would try to domesticate them all right,
and then have a coyote auction adoption thing you do
see online every once while somebody has a wolf as
(05:33):
a pet, Like, how do you have that? Yeah, right,
it seems bold.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
All right. There you have it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There's the Wildlife News. Incredible investigative journalism by Kevin kat Turner.
Coming up next, What America Fears the Most. That's three
minutes away. Don't miss it.
Well, the wild life lues the wild life blue all right,
our friends down in DeSoto, or they're doing something that's
a little bit unconventional. They're coding and uh, I will
(00:20):
just go ahead and give my opinion before I tell
you the story. I think this is a little questionable.
On Monday, the City of DeSoto announced that they're going
to be conducting a coyote removal operation starting at two
am Wednesday, so this would have been yesterday morning, a.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Purge o coyote purge.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Dude, let's go now. This is because there have been
at least five documented coute attacks on residents pets since June.
Time to fight back, and it's resulted in the depths
of several small dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think you've got to train the dogs to fight back.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just kind of think it's the food chain, right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You're not going to defend your pet.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yep, Kyle Lee, I didn't say I wouldn't defend it.
I just said I've never really been in the head space.
You've never been in the headspace to be a protector
of anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You're out walking your beautiful little puppy. You're out walking
your beautiful puppy, and beautiful kyote. Yeah, cute, adorable puppy,
and he's like, keep I'm over here. It's just wandering around,
waddling around, so adorable, and a coyote comes and starts
eating it like a chicken nugget, and you're like, well,
that's the food chain. No, you've got to give your
(01:33):
puppy brass paws so that it can land.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah. I think the goal is just to not ever
be in that situation which not having the dog would
put me there. For me, it's funny exactly. We did
dog shit for some friends a couple of weeks ago,
and last night my wife goes, do you miss seeing
the dog? I said, not really. He was just like
it didn't make me feel any certain way that he
(01:59):
was there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's the moment just now where I realize your wife
doesn't even really know you, does she. That's the sweetest
question ever? Right, yeahs the dog. That's so awesome. That's
who you want to dog sit, somebody who actually cares
that much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I miss seeing him sitting on my spot on the couch.
Diamond sits in my seat all the time. I like
it at all. But they're cute. They when you get
one that's actually your dog. You'll understand. Yeah, no, you're right.
It's like what they say, once you see the baby,
your whole life will change. I guess who said this
visitor dog could get on the couch. Let's go back
(02:35):
to de Soto. Yep, he had dementia. I think the
dog had dimentia. So back to Soda five Kyoti attacks
on small dogs since June, but no human attacks were reported.
So what they were going to do is have a
removal operation, and which they said Desta residents might hear
(02:56):
gunshots overnight. It is the city aims to colts coyote population.
Don't do it at two am. That's not the time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Better you don't do it like when the kids get
out at three, like you need to do it at
when most people are at home.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But at two am, it's hard to tell a dog
in a coyote apart. Oh, it's dark out. There are
some dogs that look like coyotes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Dog yodes and if they're out roaming around and they're
maybe street dogs, because you would also tell people, hey, man,
keep your dogs inside. There's gonna be dudes out with
infrared scopes.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Let's start out and let's not like these cops are
always like right on the money, Like, I'll never forget
the East Dallas coyote attack that it got that kid.
Remember the attack that kid? And then they didn't even
know if it was the same one. And the officer
went to the park in the day and shot at
it and they didn't hit it either.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So it's like, so that's telling me you weren't close
to it. If you missed, you're just firing a gun
across the park in the d of the day. They
buried the lead. The lead was lady leaves small child
out unattended. You know what I'm saying, Yes, why is
your kid just out?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, your tiny toddler shouldn't be forced to square off
with a rabbit coyote. Right, Well, you're inside watching the
novella's he should be sitting in one of those chairs
with wheels on them where you can kind of scoot
around a little bit, eating some cheese ites or something.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A twenty year old resident I'll leave his name out,
but this is how the article reads in WFA. Some
of the residents are raising concerns about the operation. Here's
what a twenty year old resident of De Soto said.
He said he was stunned when they learned the killing
they'd be killing the coyotes rather than trapping and relocating. Quote,
when they were talking about actually shooting them. That touched
(04:40):
me in a certain type of way. It is weird
to just be like, you know what, don't worry, We'll
just go kill them all. Like, that's not the first
thing you should do.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let's try to find out where they're coming from first.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You want to give him some counseling you were rehabilitating.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Trap them and do what and just take them out
in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Farmland seems expensive. Who's paying for that? The Animal Relocation
Department of disoder.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
They got going on. Yeah, yeah, seriously, how are they
feeling out their days? Dude?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
If I'm living in a community where my dogs are
you know, dogs are getting eaten, I'm fighting back. Yeah,
so I want that. I'm like, yep, thank you, kill
them all, thanks, good luck. If I hear the gunshots,
I won't worry. I would try to domesticate them all right,
and then have a coyote auction adoption thing you do
see online every once while somebody has a wolf as
(05:33):
a pet, Like, how do you have that? Yeah, right,
it seems bold.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
All right. There you have it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There's the Wildlife News. Incredible investigative journalism by Kevin kat Turner.
Coming up next, What America Fears the Most. That's three
minutes away. Don't miss it.
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