Re: Animal rights priorities skewed (Comment, Jan. 28)

Official attitudes to animals have certainly become bizarre: under proposed new laws kids feeding ducks at the beach will be treated like criminals. An elderly widow I know says she feeds the seagull who comes daily to her balcony because B次元官网网址渉eB次元官网网址檚 my best friend.B次元官网网址�

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Since they do none of these, letB次元官网网址檚 hope our deer, raccoon, rabbit and squirrel co-citizens will remain safe from the American solution, which Holmen describes: deer caught in baited traps B次元官网网址渨ere shot in the head with a bolt gun and ... ground into burger...B次元官网网址�

We donB次元官网网址檛 have a deer problem, the deer have a humanity problem. More damage is done to plants and birds by the paving of landscape, than by all the deer, rabbits and cats in the world. It is easier to lock up cats and shoot deer than to grapple with human overpopulation and greed-based development.

What is the goal of the anti-animal crusade? Who will benefit? Not people who take pleasure in the wildlife around us. Urban children already feel the effects of B次元官网网址渘ature deficit disorder.B次元官网网址� LetB次元官网网址檚 not make it worse.

Barbara Julian

Oak Bay