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Re: woodchuck killers

We live in a very rural area and I know my husband and the neighbor boys regularly go through the fields and shoot woodchucks or groundhogs, as they call them around here.  They really do cause great damage and the burrows they make are also dangerous to the livestock.  People too for that matter.  I would hate to be running along and step into one.  A broken leg for sure.  As much as all of you love cute little critters, this is just part of the order of nature.  Some of them just have to be eliminated.

Sue in central PA

At 12:30 AM 1/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> I sort of felt bad for the woodchuck, though. It was minding it's own
>> business in the brush and my spreeing dog found it out. There was really
>> no reason for her to kill it.
>Out here in Upstate New York, it is considered a sport to kill
>woodchucks.  Yep, grab a 6 pack, get in your truck, and drive around
>backroads in the spring, summer, and fall looking for woodchucks to pop
>off.  Those claim that they cause great damage to farmers land.  I can
>attest to them causing a little bit of damage in my garden, but I could
>never kill one.   All life matters.
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>> -chris
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