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That's nature. Man grows carrot. Groundhog wants to eat carrot. Man must kill groundhog to stop carrot from being consumed.
You think gardeners/farmers don't do every trick in the book to discourage animals from raiding their food supply before using deadly force? It's in their best interest to do so. Not unless they hire an armed guard to stay up all night to watch over the garden.
Actually had this exact thing happen on our front lawn when I was a kid and yes the Police came and shot it,whats the big deal .Has anyone ever been through a rabies procedure,if you had you would be happy this Officer did what he did.
From someone who grew up just about as rural as you can get while still having electricity, and who spent many an afternoon hunting groundhogs and other farm pests: wild groundhogs do not stand their ground when approached. They disappear so fast that you'll wonder if you really saw one. This groundhog was reacting aggressively to the officer, which is highly abnormal behavior. I don't know when this video was taken, but last year Maryland had an outbreak of rabies (which is far less common than people believe), including a groundhog at The Maryland Zoo. The officer was correct to shoot this animal if there was even the possibility of it having rabies. There was no way for him to contain the animal until Animal Control showed up, and rabies is not something to take chances with. Would you rather the groundhog got away and infected people before it died a slow, slobbering death?
But was that the reasoning? It seems to me he shot it simply because it approached him. Many PO will shoot at anything that approaches them.
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