Only someone who's never had a family of raccoons destroy their entire vegetable garden overnight would say that. Or rip their screen door to shreds. Or spread their trash cans over half an acre. Or crawl in the cat door and tear up the kitchen. Or........
Oh, I have had several of such experiences.
While I say all life is precious, that doesn’t mean we cannot protect what belongs to us or keeps us sustained. There is a time for being sentimental and writing storybooks about talking , singing animals who teach us lessons, and there is a time for D-Con, for when the Rats trespass or invade the places where we live.
Or maim or kill every chicken in the henhouse...
“Only someone who’s never had a family of raccoons destroy their entire vegetable garden overnight “
We currently have a family destroying all of my wife’s bird feeders. They are not happy with just taking the food, they have to destroy the feeders and some feeders just turning up missing.
I’m in the process of killing them. Caught one last night. Before the day is out rigor mortise will have set in on that masked jerk.
There is nothing cute about a destructive or dangerous animal. They will also pair up to kill house cats, I’ve actually caught that on a trail cam. They are extremely vicious. A cat climbs a tree, a coon runs up them - the cat has no chance.