On Jun 22, 1:09*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jun 22, 7:18*am, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"

lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" fired this volley :

Why does everyone feel the need to kill?

Stormy, some folks actually suffer losses at the claws and teeth of
marauding wildlife.

Killing isn't always its own reward, but it positively ends the threat from
a single animal; "pack" and highly social animals respond strongly to
having one of their crew killed -- they tend to avoid the place it
happened, afterwards.

LLoyd

Prove that to me.

TMT

A dead coon isn't likely to return to raid the garden plot... "Take
away the food source" isn't going to work in that case, my sister
depends on canning the veggies for the rest of the year. A coon can
ruin a whole lot of ripe corn in a night. They end up trapping 20-30
a year, spray them with an orange stripe before relocation. Repeaters
get executed.

Coons carry distemper and flea-borne diseases, not so great for pets,
there's not a lot of natural predators around, either.

Stan