Looky What I Found!!!!
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nigerfish
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Well may i tune in on this topic, i happen to have a good friend that keeps these animals for pets and it is not uncommon for people to have these as pets, so please do mind what you say as people can take offense to this.
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75bownut
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Originally Posted by Beth
Why is that, bow? Or are you trying to inflame this discussion?
Where I live they are so overpopulated that it is encouraged to shoot them. They will pay you 20 to 25 dollars per pelt. Not trying to inflame anything, just stating a fact of life.
Why is that, bow? Or are you trying to inflame this discussion?
Where I live they are so overpopulated that it is encouraged to shoot them. They will pay you 20 to 25 dollars per pelt. Not trying to inflame anything, just stating a fact of life.
zoie2
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I love racoons! I have had several for pets. The last one I had was last year. It's mother was hit by a car. It was only 4 weeks old. Her eyes had just opened. I had to feed it a bootle. they are so cute. When she was old enough, she moved away, back into the woods. Very hard to say good bye. My husband keeps teasing she will come back this year with babies!!
1journeyman
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Originally Posted by 75bownut
Where I live they are so overpopulated that it is encouraged to shoot them. They will pay you 20 to 25 dollars per pelt. Not trying to inflame anything, just stating a fact of life.
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
Where I live they are so overpopulated that it is encouraged to shoot them. They will pay you 20 to 25 dollars per pelt. Not trying to inflame anything, just stating a fact of life.
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
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reeffer
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put him in your tank they love fish!!
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jdragunas
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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
ahhhh, my hero (googly eyes)
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
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75bownut
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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
Again I am just stating a fact of life, Im not an animal hater , and I agree with you , but when you have them as bad as we do its like an infestation of roaches.
Animals over-populate when man messes up the ecosystem.
"Shooting" them isn't the solution....
Again I am just stating a fact of life, Im not an animal hater , and I agree with you , but when you have them as bad as we do its like an infestation of roaches.
danedodger
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You did the right thing and I'm glad to hear that he's doing well! It's sweet of the rehabbers to keep in touch with you.
KingSpade, you may be sad to have had the lil guy grow up and move on but that was the best thing in the world for him! You did a fantastic job, picture perfect rescue, rehab, and reintroduction to the wild where he belongs
Too many people try to keep them as pets and WAY too often they find out they have more than they bargained for when the animal grows up! Then it's the animal that suffers because it can no longer be safely kept by people the way it's used to but it hasn't learned to fend for itself in the wild either.
I prolly would have killed it if it poked me in the eye after saving it's life and nursing it back to health...
You can't take these things personally, Shu-perman. It was just being a bird and expecting it to act otherwise isn't realistic. You just have to take animals as they are to some degree. When two of my dogs got into a fight years ago I (stupidly!) waded in the middle of it to break it up and got bitten badly. Lots of people around here asked if I shot em or something and it made me mad everytime. They didn't mean to bite ME, they were just being dogs, so it was my own fault. Why would I punish them in any way for that? We just kept them seperated from then on and everyone was happy.
But in bownut's defense I can easily see where a population of some wild critter might need to be thinned out to some degree so don't be TOO hard on him. It's true that the problem is largely man-made but what else is to be done about it but thin them out to safer levels? We can't mandate that humans stop having babies (although sometimes I'm not so sure we shouldn't!) so as our population expands people will encroach on wild animal's homes and more times than not when wildlife encounters humans the animals suffer. Leave them to their own devices and they suffer from illnesses, injury, and starvation not to mention become pests or, worse, dangerous. There's no easy answer but in some cases with the way things stand right now I think it's actually kinder to hunt them to a limited degree. Hopefully we'll find a better way to live with nature one day.
KingSpade, you may be sad to have had the lil guy grow up and move on but that was the best thing in the world for him! You did a fantastic job, picture perfect rescue, rehab, and reintroduction to the wild where he belongs
I prolly would have killed it if it poked me in the eye after saving it's life and nursing it back to health...
You can't take these things personally, Shu-perman. It was just being a bird and expecting it to act otherwise isn't realistic. You just have to take animals as they are to some degree. When two of my dogs got into a fight years ago I (stupidly!) waded in the middle of it to break it up and got bitten badly. Lots of people around here asked if I shot em or something and it made me mad everytime. They didn't mean to bite ME, they were just being dogs, so it was my own fault. Why would I punish them in any way for that? We just kept them seperated from then on and everyone was happy.
But in bownut's defense I can easily see where a population of some wild critter might need to be thinned out to some degree so don't be TOO hard on him. It's true that the problem is largely man-made but what else is to be done about it but thin them out to safer levels? We can't mandate that humans stop having babies (although sometimes I'm not so sure we shouldn't!) so as our population expands people will encroach on wild animal's homes and more times than not when wildlife encounters humans the animals suffer. Leave them to their own devices and they suffer from illnesses, injury, and starvation not to mention become pests or, worse, dangerous. There's no easy answer but in some cases with the way things stand right now I think it's actually kinder to hunt them to a limited degree. Hopefully we'll find a better way to live with nature one day.