On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 1:20:32 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 7/28/2016 1:03 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 11:14:46 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> >> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I know Gary wouldn't do this, but my husband would stick the
> >>> Havahart trap with the possum still in it into a big container
> >>> of water. He'd rather shoot it with his .22 (which would be quicker
> >>> and thus more humane, but doesn't want to risk skipping a round off
> >>> into the neighborhood behind us.
> >>
> >> Oh dear lord. Are you kidding me? You catch it in an animal friendly
> >> trap but then drown it? How unfriendly is that? I suppose that saves him
> >> some gasoline money though. Use that for the lawnmower.
> >
> > The alternative would be a leg-hold trap, which is both inhumane
> > and illegal.
>
> WOW. Drowning animals that were caught in a trap & release trap is
> humane and legal?! You must be crazy.
>
> > They only are trapped if they come near the house. We have two acres.
> > They can stay in the back by the drainage ditch without risking their
> > lives.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> Did you expect the animals to know not cross the drainage ditch? Sorry,
> the wild animals didn't go to school to study boundary maps. They go
> where they can forage. And you're nuts.

The other side of the drainage ditch is a manufactured home community,
not a wild animal habitat.

We got a skunk (or perhaps two) this morning. I wasn't involved, since
I'm not nuts and I don't kill animals. Except for the time I dispatched
a purple finch that had flown into the patio door and was obviously
in extreme distress and from which it never would recover. I cried
like a baby as I laid a newspaper over it (so I wouldn't have to see
it die) and hit it with a shovel. My husband was out of town, or he
would have taken care of it.

Cindy Hamilton