[Blue Jays]

"...groundhog behaving oddly as if sick and/or rabid..."

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In a sane world, decent men and women would humanely put down sick or injured wildlife without getting a dozen levels of “official clearance” to do so.

A friend of mine shot a deer that jumped in front of his minivan and was mangled at roadside about ten years ago.
The biggest concern my friend had was shooting this terribly injured deer out-of-season and whether passersby would call-in license plates to report.

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I had to do this once. It wasn’t pleasant. The car we were driving behind plowed a deer and being a subcompact, demolished the car. The deer was thrashing around in the ditch, bloody mayhem. I took a shotgun we were transporting and put the poor thing out of its misery. I had forgotten about this incident until I read this article and was talking about it to my wife. The deputy showed up and I told him what I did and he said “good job.”

That said, it’s a groundhog people. We used to shoot them for sport on a sod farm when we lived back west (home). They sure do cause a lot of damage, let alone one rushing you. Never saw that before.

[PLMerite]

“In a sane world, decent men and women would humanely put down sick or injured wildlife without getting a dozen levels of “official clearance” to do so.”

Probably had to get permission to discharge his duty weapon. These days CYA is Job #1.