Just wait. When the beaver are in every drainage ditch, flooding them, and are in the backyard eating those expensive fruit and ornamental trees, all thos PETA people will begin demanding that " Someone( else) Do Something". When the animal control officers tell them beaver just don't go into the nice box traps that don't kill them, and that if they live trap them, there is no place else that wants MORE beaver, as everyone has enough, Then the laws will be change again. It happens in cycles all the time like this. It just takes time for the animals to become a big enough nuisance to a lot of people, and the voters will do the right thing. The same PETA people who were against killing beaver and muskrats in the forest preserves, got all bent out of shape, when the critters invaded a local city park, flooded a walker's trail along side a ditch the little guys dammed up on night, and started eating all the trees planted along the walkway to provide shade to the hikers and walkers, and joggers. They demanded that something be done, but didn't want to pay for it. They were even more furious when they were told that box traps don't work. But, in the end, they finally decided it was best to let the professionals deal with the issue, and passed an ordinance allowing leg hold traps to be used once again. they got assurance that the traps would be set in water, to reduce the chance that someone's dog or cat would be injuried( duh!) and that the traps would be checked daily( state law already required that). So, other than re-inventing the wheel, the lovely, high-educated, and well-intentioned PETA types spent a lot of public money doing nothing. But isn't that always the case? If they had bothered to talk to trappers about why they choose to use one kind of trap vs. another, and how the traps differ depending on the species of animal being trapped and the location, they would have realized the trappers don't make any money catching your neighbor's cat, either. They don't want to be setting traps they have to check daily only to find someone's dog caught in the thing! Duh! ( Here's your sign! ) :youcrazy: :surrender: :rotf:
