Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Killer Raccoons....

... are terrorizing Olympia in Washington state, killing cats and abducting small dogs. Read and weep-- or maybe laugh, as Oscar Wilde said re the death of Little Nell.

"The problem got so bad that residents Kari Hall and Tamara Keeton even started a Raccoon Watch after having an emotional neighborhood meeting attended by about 40 people.

"It was a place for people to mourn and cry," Hall said."

As you finish, you realize not ONE PERSON, including the animal conrol people, has advocated, say, shooting the animals, or at least the well- identified "ringleader".

In PC England, that would already have been accomplished with a .22. With a legal silencer.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Goodness... When I was in high school and we moved into a new house in a wooded area, we had terrible problems with a pack of racoons. There was a definite leader and a large group of other troublemakers. They are pretty intelligent. It didn't take long for them to learn that they'd be shot if they came too close to the house at night.