I'm sorry if I offended anyone in any way. If I were a predator, which technically I am, I would much rather be taken somewhere else and still have a fighting chance instead of being killed. No matter how small the chance of survival, it is better than nothing, IMO.
Isn't that selfish and irresponsible, when you boil it down?
By relocating are you not just passing off your known nuisance animal and it's problems onto someone else when you relocate it, that assumes it actually survives? And even if it doesn't survive the relocated animal has no idea where food, water and shelter are in the new area, so this alone could increase it's nuisance behaviors as it tries...
Also there is no shortage of historical studies and data to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that relocating animals can have devastating effects to the inhabitants of the area the animal has been relocated to as well... This is especially true of skunks and the potential for rabies...
And there is the fact that it's illegal in most areas to relocate...
Sorry but IMO the washing your hands with the feel good I gave it a fighting chance doesn't outweigh the negatives in my book...
I understand some people don't want to be the hand that kills, and if that is the case don't trap it, because chances are even if you relocate it you are sentencing it to death in the end...