Posted on 11/07/2017 9:44:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
California authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a protected southern sea otter that had been rescued and returned to the ocean last year.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday that the dead otter was found floating in Morro Bay in September and a necropsy determined it was killed with a pellet gun.
A numbered tag identified the animal as an otter that had previously been found tangled in a fishing line. It was rehabilitated and returned to the wild in July 2016.
Southern sea otters, which are also known as California sea otters, are listed as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act, are considered depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and are protected by California state law, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The Sea Otter was killed with an assault rifle requiring more gun control.
The authorities will spend more time investigating this than they do the death of any black person...
Is that because of Otter privilege?
Can Sea Otters be as aggressive and territorial as beavers?
I’ve always heard that beavers will quickly come after you if you mess with their nest or den.
If it was a rescued Otter maybe it scare the crap out of someone because of thinking people are friends.
As they should, one is just a person, this is the planet mother earth we are talking about. Doing otherwise would be racist.
Those Chicago killings are eliminating the “right” people - those who were supposed to be aborted in the Dem plan anyway.
Are you serious? Do you even understand what I typed there? The DEM PLAN - I’ve always voted pro-life, and that includes stopping the murder of black children. It is no accident that the party that rules over the cities with the highest black homicide rates is the same party that tries to stop black children from ever seeing the light of day.
My Chicago post didn’t require a sarcasm tag because it wasn’t even sarcastic - it is the absolute truth.
No, just post-Judeo-Christian paganism...
Sad but true...
I am really sorry to hear about some idiot shooting the otter. Probably some stupid teenager with a pellet gun who had to show off. Poor little otter.
My money says it was an illegal alien.
it coulda been suicide
Well the sea otter is an endangered species. Blacks just can’t seem to stop having babies.
My money is on some angry POS leftist. They want their gun control so they take it out on this little creature.
Someone was eating all the abalone
Asian poacher
Could have been Ray Bees. He’s still out there on the loose.
If not, then a shame someone would harm such a critter for no good reason.
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