[goat granny]

I agree with you on your 2 things that could make you do unspeakable things--those that abuse kids or animals...The article on the Shepard being abused is disgusting as with any abused animal...when I had the farm there were things that had to be done to protect my goats and fowl...I did kill coons whenever I could...they are efficient predators and one got in my chicken coop one night and killed 1/2 of them, I had to finish off a couple that were chewed up but still alive and saved the leg of one of my guinea hens with splints. .They also chewed through the roof of the old ice house and killed all the baby turkeys but left the mother alive...to them I did unspeakable things...shot one and drown several in the pond....

When I was a city girl I had to call my neighbor to take a mouse trap out of the house with a mouse in it....farming toughens you up pretty fast. It took losing my rabbits to a pack of dogs and my house warming gift of 4 banty to a coon that turned me into a vermin hater, especially coons, they are nastier than spit (as another freeper put it)

We all have our personal reasons for doing and feeling like we do...I would never pry into your reasons as you said, they are personal...

[familyop]

"I did kill coons whenever I could...they are efficient predators and one got in my chicken coop one night and killed 1/2 of them,..."

Yep. Coons are like monkeys when getting into chicken pens and coops--very good at it. Up this way, besides coyotes, we also have to be on the lookout for bears in chicken coops. They've been known to surprise a few people going out to feed them. ...need something that's light to carry and will penetrate through about five feet of their hair, hide, flesh and bones.

[Salamander]

Seen worse.

Bobcats.
Weasel massacres.

Coons are rookies compared to them...especially the weasels.