Do Not Kill South End Foxes.

If you are going to live trap them,don't kill them! tag them, vaccinate them, and release them!

WE CAN DO BETTER

You need to look at more humane options than killing these innocent beings. It's important to keep an ecological balance in nature.

Stop killing wildlife that aren't diseased or activingly hurting people ffs.

Please reconsider your decision. It will have grave unintended consequences in the form of a surge in voles and rodents, as happened at Goose Rocks Beach in 2008-2009 from a similar decision. Additionally, it is not humane and is "extreme."

There is an evidence-based, scientific and successful way to address the issue and it is not through trapping. Those who would like to learn more please do click on these links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720040/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-008-0198-3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720040/ https://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/site-page/control-rabies https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/esm.10.11.00577-en https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/cd/rabies/orv.html

Trapping/killing is NOT the answer in 2020. For years, science has confirmed that human-caused warmer weather (global heating & drought) contribute to the increase in rabies, tick-borne illness and other diseases. Humans continue to make old style, destructive decisions, such as murdering wildlife, cutting trees, fragmenting and invading habitats, and the spread of cattle operations. When drought & hot temps take hold, animals who have no place to go seek water and food in urban areas that have more pollution and contaminants, which increases the cycle of infection rates. These reckless practices we do weaken ecosystems & thereby increase negative consequences and disease. Foxes and other wildlife and mesopredators are essential to healthy ecosystems, non-toxic rodent control, and the climate. Indiscriminately killing them and other animals will only INCREASE PROBLEMS. We MUST learn and adapt with practices that promote healthy wildlife, woods and waters, curb our OWN behaviors which are out of control, and use sound, nature-based practices blended with enlightened science to control rabies. Links: https://thinkprogress.org/u-s-rabies-outbreaks-linked-to-drought-warm-weather-84d7f63cf2e1/; https://grist.org/climate-change/climate-change-could-give-you-rabies/; https://www.who.int/globalchange/summary/en/index5.html;

This is not the way to control rabies by wiping out animals! Decades ago rabies was controlled and we did not worry about it for many years until it popped up a few years ago. There is another way they’ve done it before! NO SLAUGHTER!!!!!

This is not the best option I’m sure..

No lethal intervention is a more humane path forward for our wildlife, and should be adopted in this case. Killing wildlife indiscriminately is not a solution, and should be avoided. Other means of screening for the health of the population would support research into conserving a healthy fox population in Maine. They are too important to the ecosystem, thus indiscriminate killing has intended consequences and a ripple effect on other species that will only bring unwanted outcomes.

Please don't kill them.

Ask a wildlife biologist if killing the natural predators in an area is a good idea. This does not promote balance in an ecosystem.

Trap until eradicated. Set uninfected free. Kind of a no brainer.

Please stop this senseless killing, it will NOT solve anything!!!!

I sign as a former resident of Bath. I sincerely hope the good people of this great town work to find a kinder alternative to a mass slaughter of foxes conducted out of fear.

The balance of nature will be thrown off and we will have a greater problem, don’t do it!

You do not kill off a part of an integral piece of our ecosystem to solve this long term problem.

Why not feed them oral rabies vaccine?

Ya’ll are ridiculous for thinking this’ll work.

This is absurd.