twstanley, Oh, you must be in the workforce and not amoung us retarded (retired?) Actualy if you lined up 10 'coons and shot every other one, the rest would probably be back to about the way they were within a day and do what 'coons mostly do... look for food. On the other hand if you used a fence charger to booby trap the object of their attention they would learn to avoid it quite quickly.

A neighbor just bought two young black angus bulls at auction. He decided to put a hot wire inside the fence of their pens so they wouldn't walk through the fence to get to "the girls." He always marks the hot wire with white rag flags. In short order neither bull will get anywhere near a scrap of white cloth. You can fend them off with a hankie! Even funnier is how they apparrently thought the first few shocks were biting flies and tried to swat them with their tails with some obvious and humorous results!

Criters are well programmed for survival, find food, find a mate, avoid many "natural" dangers. They are relatively adaptable but are real short on logic, extrapolation, and such. Shooting a few as an example is not particularly effective on the remaining population.

Around here it seems that everyone wants to shoot all the turtles in all the ponds so they don't eat ALL THE FISH. One of the most prevalent species is the red ear turtle which when grown is 100% vegetarian.

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