So hunt away, but they are here to stay.
Now if some enterprising person could train them to eat gang-bangers, I might be persuaded to stop shooting them.
“Chicago, for example, has a sizable indigenous population.”
Yes, I can attest to this for a fact. I’ve lived here all my life, and I’ve never actually seen a live one, since they are very careful to stay out of sight of humans, but you can hear them in the forest preserves, or up on the freight train tracks at night. A few years back we did get a bold one who tried to nab a small dog in a mall parking lot, right off the owner’s leash.