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Quote: Heck -- strictly speaking, any discussion about shooting anything at all is irrelevant to the OP's question -- since she specifically asked about catching the possum without a gun.

Quote: Sure thing. No sarcastic comments or judgments here. Just adding a few, hopefully helpful, facts to the discussion.

Quote: Heck, I never said that it's wrong for you to shoot everything in sight, if you want. I'm simply pointing out a few of the facts that surround such actions. I think it's a great thing to be able to provide facts for the readers of this board, so they can make up their own minds.

Quote: That's not really how it works. If requested, I'd be happy to provide references in support of the fact that increasing migration by removing animals will increase the spread of disease. In turn, do you have any evidence behind your claim? Plus if I let it live,there's no tellin how...

Quote: Oh, sorry. The fact that removing animals from a wild population, therefore increasing migration of other animals to fill the empty spaces, tends to increase the spread of diseases within that population. That's a fact. You said you disagreed. I suspect what you may really have meant...

Quote: You can "disagree" with facts all you want -- but that doesn't make them any less factual.

Quote: You should care, for a coupla reasons. Most especially, it's not just "the coyote crud" that's getting spread around. It's things like rabies, and canine distemper, and brucellosis, etc., and so on. Things that we really don't want to spread around, for our own sake and the sake of our...

Something to remember, for y'all of the "shoot it now" clan -- Killing these animals can actually INCREASE disease transmission, because it increases animal migration. When you remove one animal from a wild population, another animal tends to move in to fill the empty space. And the animal that...