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-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --

Hi, if I sounded  at all judgemental, I surely didn't mean to.  Last year,
there was a big thing in Organic Gardening about somebody who killed a
woodchuck, and I think maybe they ate  it  and tanned the skin.  There was
a picture of the skin in the magazine, and all the vegetarian animal rights
people went ballistic,and  if they knew where the  people who did it lived,
they would have gone there and skinned them!  They were VERY condemning,
and called the  woodchuck killer all sorts of terrible things.  I actually
wrote a letter that got into the magazine about how you have no right to
judge why people do this unless you've been where they are.  I once
actually beat a woodchuck with a rake (the back part) after  he totally ate
EVERYTHING  that I planted, just when it was all taking off.  He was too
stuffed to get back over the fence, so I chased him around the garden,
saying (well, yelling) bad things, and hitting him.  It felt good, but then
my city lack of instincts took over, and I shoved him into the  humane trap
and relocated him, bruised, but intact. I do not condemn the necessary
killing of woodchucks, and probably  crows, who I've seen pull out of nests
baby songbirds, like robins and orioles and eat them! (I don't think I
could personally do this, not now, while we are living so easily, as you
just described.)  But if I had to do it, I would. My neighbors think I'm
insane,  because they've seen me throwing rocks at the top of a tree,
yelling, etc.   But what  is a 30-60, or whatever it is, already?  -Lauren
B. Z6 NY

(Notice, no last name or specific address, so the animal people won't  get
ME!)
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