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Trap, Not Torture
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There's no real excuse for someone like this guy to go to the extremes of, according to the charges levied against him, stabbing and pouring bleach on raccoons. That's cruel and horrible. But his explanation also sounds like something a lot of people experience: The raccoons use his patio as a toilet, pooping everywhere, trashing the trash, being as annoying as raccoons can be. He claims two of them were sick and left traps he set up in bad shape, hence the bleach to clean them up, but that doesn't explain or excuse the stabbing, which he says came because they were sick, the town's animal control people would not help him, and he felt like the animals were ruining his life. Really, yes, wildlife can do stuff that makes you crazy, but killing raccoons, especially in such a vile way, is not the answer. Or, more precisely, it's an answer, but a really bad and cruel one. (NJ Advance Media/NJ.com)
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