Blood In The Water
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 11 months ago
Amei Francesco-Folsom arrived home on a Thursday afternoon to find blood all over the streets in her Palm Springs neighborhood. Her husband, Greg, informed her the blood was from neighborhood ducks and she subsequently called her town’s maintenance department to have it cleaned.
However, she soon discovered it wasn’t there by accident. The Lakewood residential community is removing ducks — violently.
In late November, men dressed in dark blue, carrying guns and orange buckets started walking through the neighborhood. They work for Allstar Animal Removal, a licensed wildlife removal company contracted by the homeowners association. It is not clear what type of guns were used.
Their job is pretty straightforward: shoot and remove the Muscovy ducks — a nonnative species from Central and South America with black and white feathers and red waddles.
“I came home and saw blood everywhere,” Francesco-Folsom, who has lived in Lakewood since 2003, said. “I’m beyond upset about this situation.”
So I assume that you would rather your children walk around in feces and contract awful diseases?
On December 16, 2018 at 11:15 pm, Dan said:
This idiot comes from the same group of morons who complain in ‘letters to the editor’ about evil cruel hunters harming helpless animals and those hunters should just get their meat from the store like everyone else so animals won’t be harmed.
On December 18, 2018 at 5:35 pm, Henry said:
Well, I’m beyond upset about that situation, too. It’s a damn slaughter; it’s a waste of valuable meat; and if you’re going to charge people money to shoot their birds, you ought to do it in a sanitary, professional manner and clean up the gore behind yourselves.