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To: Free ThinkerNY

People should be able to kill rodents on their property.


5 posted on 05/22/2010 7:42:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: ConservativeMind
People should be able to kill rodents on their property.

Agreed, but he's also on video baiting and torturing them. He has done this dozens of times. Still, I think the sentence is inappropriate, a bit much for rodents.
8 posted on 05/22/2010 7:45:15 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: ConservativeMind

“People should be able to kill rodents on their property.”

Yes. As a young girl with boy cousins who went after squirrels for fun, I was appalled by their behavior. But as an adult homeowner with vegetable gardens ravaged by squirrels, I really considered borrowing my neighbor’s pellet pistol. Someone in the neighborhood was leaving peanuts for squirrels. We never figured out who it was, but it increased the squirrel population to the extent that we had to abandon our veggie garden. They still manage to cut our tulips in half every year.

That said, squirrel antics are fun to watch and I don’t hate them. But thinning the population is necessary from time to time.


30 posted on 05/22/2010 7:59:52 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I recall my grandpa shooting squirrels sitting on the back porch in Ohio and letting me try.

That has stayed with me all my life and I always wanted a place where I could do that.
I have the property now and the critters but I have no desire to shoot em.


84 posted on 05/23/2010 5:59:41 AM PDT by winodog
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Including those campaigning for office ? ;-D


89 posted on 05/23/2010 1:37:19 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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