The DNR’s raccoon killing class for kids runs until noon today.
Yesterday I told you the Wisconsin DNR is running a “Learn to Hunt & Trap Raccoons” program for kids at Governor Dodge State Park. No trapper education. No hunter education. No park sticker. It’s still going this morning.
Then the messages started coming in. I want you to see them, because this is who we’re up against.
This Is Who These People Are
“Someone needs to trap you and leave you in a box for days.”
Read that again. Someone looked at a woman who rehabilitated raccoons for ten years and decided the answer was to trap her like an animal. That’s not a debate about wildlife management. That’s what this culture does to anyone who says no.
Another man wrote to tell me raccoons “destroy and kill everything” and that thinning them stops rabies.
Here’s the truth: according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the main rabies reservoirs in Wisconsin are bats and skunks, not raccoons. Every one of the four people who caught rabies in Wisconsin since 1959 got it from a bat. Killing raccoons in a state park doesn’t protect anyone.
What These Kids Are Being Taught to Trap
Their paws are their eyes. Almost two-thirds of the sensory area of a raccoon’s brain is devoted to touch. Those are the paws that end up clamped in a trap.
They’re as brainy as primates. Raccoons pack dog-level neuron counts into a cat-sized brain, on par with primates in neuronal density.
The babies are still with their mothers. Young raccoons stay with mom through their first winter. Kill her this weekend and they face a Wisconsin winter alone.
They want me scared and quiet. I’m neither. Our state parks belong to every Wisconsinite, and I will keep saying so as loud as I need to. But I can’t do it alone.
Cruelty Is Not Conservation
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2 thoughts on “Day Two: I spoke up for raccoons. This is what came back.”
to inflict pain and suffering and death or any of one of these is evil. to know and see the pain when your life is not in danger is the most evil of all. same thing as a serial killer. animals are at our mercy most of the time so go out of your way to cause pain and suffering and torture for now reason is beyond my comprehension. leave them alone and torture your own self if u must. the only way out of this is prison time since these humans don’t have a loving heart, they only enjoy to hurt animals which is punishable only with stiff prison time. a life is a life. if there is not self defense needed to save your own life then leave them the f=== alone. how can u even do this????????????? i love the people who try to protect and preserve all the wonderful wildlife and domesticated animals. they r soooooooooo much better than us.
to inflict pain and suffering and death or any of one of these is evil. to know and see the pain when your life is not in danger is the most evil of all. same thing as a serial killer. animals are at our mercy most of the time so go out of your way to cause pain and suffering and torture for now reason is beyond my comprehension. leave them alone and torture your own self if u must. the only way out of this is prison time since these humans don’t have a loving heart, they only enjoy to hurt animals which is punishable only with stiff prison time. a life is a life. if there is not self defense needed to save your own life then leave them the f=== alone. how can u even do this????????????? i love the people who try to protect and preserve all the wonderful wildlife and domesticated animals. they r soooooooooo much better than us.
i replyed back to myself and i second the motion