[Varda]

Raccoons are one of the top vectors for rabies. Releasing them into the country has spread this disease into every county and by default sentenced many other wildlife to death by a gruesome disease.

[Elsie]

Releasing them into the country....

I am NOT raising baby raccoons, infecting them, and then turning them loose!

These varmits are alREADY 'in the country' when I catch them.

I do NOT test them for rabies.

If I catch one that is foaming at the mouth I WILL kill it.

All I am doing is a bit of relocation of them.

The RABIES!! menace is EXACTLY the same as if I'd not caught them in the first place.

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FWIW - I'm located in that little blue dot in the middle of Indiana.