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Re: pest control

Your letter is hilarious.  You sound like a real person dealing with a real
problem.

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> From: nonayobusiness <medium.kyootie@internetmci.com>
> To: veg <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
> Subject: pest control
> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 6:02 PM
> 
> -- [ 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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