Grrrr they are still cute when this little....

[Wifezilla]

Descented they do make nice pets. I had one as a kid. I would descent and sell if local laws allowed it.

 

[klf73]

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umm, of course they were looking for their parents as any kit/pup would. why leave when you have food readily available? I am not going to debate it, I just don't kill needlessly. I also would have just contacted a local wildlife rehabber, not like you couldn't just catch them

I guess I don't have problems with my nests(oher than the stupid ware coop) is because they are secure....

 

[Moxiechick]

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Sorry but I'm not turning them into someone else's future problem. They are as thick as coons up here....

I'm not sure why everyone thinks that anyplace an animal is relocated to is within range of someone who keeps livestock. Animal rehabilitators take great care to release the animals they take in to areas where they won't be an issue.

 

[Mattemma]

Awwww so cute. Cute like the baby bunnies and squirrels and coons that devestate my yard eating my veggies and tree seedlings. At first I let it go.Let them breed as they would. Now the packs hit my yard to support their families.Doesn't matter how much I spent on those plants I tended to for weeks to years....they eat what they want.

 

[easttxchick]

C'mon guys, her house/animals/property, her rules. Give her a break...
You wouldn't want someone telling you to take a predator/pest to a rehabber, return the favor.

 

[klf73]

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yep, I get it...but to open a pic and say....aww, so cute, then read they were killed kind of bothers some of us

maybe it's the mother in me

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It's just not a "scary" critter to me even as an adult, maybe a nuisance but nonetheless....
gophers, I get, horses break their legs and they descimate crops
raccoons pull birds through whatever they can...
coyotes, destroy flocks (yep had those)....same as fox(those too)
just seems more of and "inconvenient" species to me
If the title inclued something letting me know they killed them, I never would have opened the thread and hence would not have shared my opinion

 

[Moxiechick]

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Well, besides the fact that I wouldn't need someone to tell me this, if I were someone offended by such things, I wouldn't post pictures online saying how cute they were. If you make some things public, then the public has a right to an opinion. Otherwise, why advertise it?

 

[Heathero617]

Had several as pets as a kid, caught them as babies, had them descented and they were awsome! Cats with an attitude is all they are.

 

[destiny_56085]

Lol.... I know better too.

Even in some remote area nowhere near livestock, you are still disrupting the natural ecosystem by introducing more predators. Ever think about all the pheasant and wild waterfowl nests? Have one of them bite your precious horse or dog and fear them getting rabies.... Can I come release them near your house?

At quite a few of our trail rides last year there have been some of our group sprayed by skunks. The best was when my best friend's fiance got dumped off his horse, sprayed, and had to ride in the horse trailer home that afternoon. That saddle of his still stinks like skunk a year later.

I usually keep a 0.22 locked in my horse trailer at the farm.... It comes in handy when you those varmints show up. This also includes rats, sick cats that people drop off, nuisance neighbor dogs, etc.

 

[easttxchick]

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yep, I get it...but to open a pic and say....aww, so cute, then read they were killed kind of bothers some of us

maybe it's the mother in me

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It's just not a "scary" critter to me even as an adult, maybe a nuisance but nonetheless....
gophers, I get, horses break their legs and they descimate crops
raccoons pull birds through whatever they can...
coyotes, destroy flocks (yep had those)....same as fox(those too)
just seems more of and "inconvenient" species to me
If the title inclued something letting me know they killed them, I never would have opened the thread and hence would not have shared my opinion

I kinda doubt she would have posted this in the PREDATORS/PEST section had she decided they were gonna be house pets living in her bathroom.
This section always fires people up-not sure why they even open it if it is going to upset them.