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To: GovernmentShrinker
"...And it’s illegal everywhere to dump cats, regardless of whether they were found roaming free in a place where it’s not allowed by law..."

How about the chipmunks? I used to have a squirrel problem until my next door neighbor got a trap and started relocating them to a not so local park. He said he had transported 100 squirrels at last count.

36 posted on 07/03/2009 11:10:43 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: HangThemHigh

That’s illegal in most places, mostly due to wildlife laws aimed at avoiding unnatural movement of populations and diseases. I think most places allow it if the movement is very local, like within the county at a distance that the animal could have travelled on its own.

Personally I’m very fond of my squirrels and my cats love watching them too. We have several trained to take nuts out of our hands, and a few years back, one of the dear little critters had gotten so confident about the idea that creatures emerging from the back door of my house give nuts, that he tried — repeatedly — to get my elderly cat to give him one. Poor kitty was very confused, and finally took a half-hearted swat at the equally confused squirrel, and the disillusioned squirrel scampered off wondering what had become of the world he thought he understood. I lured him back and gave him a nut a minute or so later. I *think* he finally figured out that only *big* creatures emerging from the back of my house give nuts. These concepts are challenging when you’ve got a brain the size of a pea :-)


37 posted on 07/03/2009 11:21:32 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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