SifuPhil
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
- Location
- Pennsylvania, USA
... I will kill possums and armadillos. Armadillos, because they can tear up the lawn and pasture in one night, are ankle breakers, and pretty much have no redeeming social value ...
Of course it isn't ME that's twisting my ankle in the backyard, but armadillos DO have some value. They keep the bug populations down, and their unique birthing habits (giving birth to 4 identical babies) is of great value to scientists studying birth defects, cloning, etc.
Possums because of the disease they carry, although they will kill snakes and due to their low body temperature are not generally rabies carriers.
But also due to their low body temps they are more likely to be carriers of typhoid, at least that's what I've read.
Humans carry diseases as well - maybe we should start a "thinning" of the herd ... set out traps baited with Big Macs ...
This crafty critter has managed to trip both cages for the last few nights without getting caught. Too tired to set them tonight, but tomorrow night he's getting peanut butter and marshmallows...and hopefully a one way ticket outta here.
Well, at least you aren't going to engage in wholesale slaughter with HIM ... probably because he has little "jazz hands" ...