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goldwing2000
11-12-2003, 02:12 PM
More proof that PETA doesn't know sh*t from shinola.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes — Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program.

More... (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_re_us/girl_scouts_trapping_1)

One part that shocked the heck out of me:
The program is helping to curb a burgeoning population of the large rodents, which in Alaska can weigh up to 70 pounds.

Sweet merciful crap! That's a lot of beaver! :shock:

alex-vitek
11-12-2003, 07:33 PM
More proof that PETA doesn't know sh*t from shinola.


I saw this while reading the MACOMB DAILY this afternoon, complete with picture of the young ladies working by the side of the beaver pond. You are right about PETA.


The program is helping to curb a burgeoning population of the large rodents, which in Alaska can weigh up to 70 pounds.

Sweet merciful crap! That's a lot of beaver! :shock:

I ain't touching this one, no how, no way.