First off, let me say, I'm a gardener ... I totally and completely
understand about 'nuisance animals' and understand the fact that critters
sometimes need to be dispatched for various reasons. On the other hand, I
totally feel that we, as humans, bring a lot (if not all) of crap upon
ourselves. I've had issues w/woodchucks in the past and I've relocated
several (I can't bring myself to kill them, I know you're not supposed to
move them either, but oh well).

Within the past five years or so (maybe longer, I've lost all sense of time)
Massachusetts voted to "Ban Cruel Leghold Traps" and guess what, now
everybody is complaining that they can't let their kids or pets out because
they might get eaten by a coyote, just this last week in my home town (20
miles north of Boston) got a permit to trap and kill 9 beavers and tear down
their damn because it's causing the water in the local pond to rise way
above 'normal' -- I just would love to ask each and every one of the
buttheads who had to go out there in their hip-waders how many of them voted
to ban the cruel traps?? I can almost guarantee they all did, seeing how
it's so cruel for the animals and all, yet letting them live, then trapping
them, killing them and ripping down their home is such great fun.

I'm just disgusted w/all the McMansions and developments, etc., and then
everybody complaining the deer are eating their plants, etc. I'm just
completely sick of it all.

On the flip side of the coyote thing ... I don't have any more woodchucks
:-)

Catty One
-formerly known as LeeAnne-
20 miles north of Boston MA
and damn it's cold up here!!!!