To the editor:
Re: "Urban wildlife here to stay so get used to it," July 18.
Urban wildlife will be the losers as long as we often inhumane humans keep on building houses, condo complexes and office towers, etcetera, on the non-human life-forms' territories. Then, too-often it's only a matter of waiting for "wild, stray" animals to threaten or attack newly arrived human inhabitants before the latter act-which is usually to kill the wild animal.
Of course the very-inconvenienced humans could bother themselves with making it a solid habit, perhaps even municipal bylaw, to dose the "wild, stray" animals with as much potent tranquilizer necessary to encase and relocate them all, alive and well. But it appears that humanity's superior-minded nature allows its collective conscience to simply "cull" such animal life for reacting in their natural, predatory manner.
How can humanity justify snuffing out wild animals that stray into human-occupied communities when humans were the ones who came along and procured the animals from their formerly wild territory to make way for our own homes and infrastructure?
Frank G. Sterle, Jr., White Rock
