Do Not Kill South End Foxes.

Humans can not continue to do whatever they please with other sentient beings. Look at our planet. Look at our environment. Leave the foxes alone.

I do not see the need for killing up to 400 animals in a 10 day period. I believe I read there were going to be research done to the foxes after killing them. Trapping 400 animals, and they may or may not be rabid. It has been said there us no where to house these animals. Killing up to 400 innocent animals in this manner is absurd, and a waste if tax payers $26,000 dollars. You should hold off until you have a decent plan to handle the situation.

Other options are available and this must not go forward until a public hearing is held. This is a dangerous and inhumane path to take.

There are more effective and more environmentally sound ways to deal with this problem. Slaughtering healthy animals is not a solution.

It is totally cruel and senseless to exterminate wildlife. There are non lethal means of controlling rabies rather than murdering foxes and other species. Mass killing of wildlife should never be rendered as a "solution" to anything.

Killing both sick and healthy foxes to find out which one has rabies means all trapped foxes are dead. This is not a scientific solution and will result in more rodents and diseases they carry. Foxes are nature's balance to rodents and small mammals. If we want to treat rabies, why not place immunization baits? It's a non-viol.ent and more effective solution.

As I understand it, Bath plans to kill any wild animals caught in the traps. This is not EUTHANASIA-it is killing. The spreading of rabies vaccine can easily be done by hand. Claiming that it has to be done by aircraft is false. I'm sure folks know where many of the foxes live. This time of year foxes have a hard time finding food and would gladly eat the rabies vaccine bait. Wildlife Services is the killing arm of the USDA. What they do is kill things. Science means NOTHING to them. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/wildlife-services-04-23-2018.php

Please, NO!

Killing foxes is pointless and cruel. And what are they planning to do about all the raccoons and bats? Raccoon rabies is the dominant form in that area. A much more sensible plan would be to drop rabies immunization baits which would be accessible to foxes and raccoons. It would also be a lot more sensible to start a program to educate the public in such matters as avoiding wild animals and also keeping their dogs and cats as inside animals rather than letting them roam around. Marie Zwicker, A.C.O.

I am deeply angered and upset by the city of Bath's decision, in concert with the USDA, to indiscriminately trap and kill up to 400 wild foxes, whether or not they show signs of illness, using 20 traps in an extreme over-reaction to concerns about rabies. It is not clear whether those would be inhumane leg-hold traps or other kinds of traps. If the former, they would also endanger pets, non-target wildlife, and recreating humans. This is unacceptable. Even worse, the plan has gone forward without public input, although according to news reports, City Manager Peter Owen "is hoping to hold a public meeting next week to explain the plan". THAT IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Owen should, at minimum, hold a public hearing BEFORE such extreme measures are taken. The City of Bath should also explore, in concert with wildlife veterinary experts,, rabies vaccination options using bait with vaccine. Such vaccine programs have been implemented with success in other areas. Killing every single fox the city can catch is an extreme, inhumane, environmentally destructive sledgehammer of a proposal, and it is unconscionable that such a policy should be proposed and implemented before allowing the public the chance to weigh in on the extreme plan. I note with grave concern that USDA has a long and ignominious history of indiscriminate killing of wildlife through its so-called "Wildlife Services" program, which is responsible for wreaking environmental havoc and annually causing the deaths of millions of wild animals - many of them endangered - at taxpayer expense. The destructive program is also responsible for the deaths of countless pets, many human injuries, and grave environmental harm through the release of poisons like cyanide. While Bath's so-called "plan" apparently does not involve cyanide bombs, it is just as destructive and scatter-shot as USDA's abysmal "Wildlife Services" activities. Killing every fox USDA can manage to trap is frankly insane and extremely destructive

THE MAJORITY OF THOSE TRAPPED AND KILLED WILL BE HEALTHY. IT'S NOT WORTH IT TO KILL HEALTHY ANIMALS IN HOPES OF FINDING THE FEW WITH RABIES. THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS THAT DON'T REQUIRE THE SENSELESS KILLING OF HEALTHY ANIMALS.

this is their home too - it's so easy to kill, a holistic approach is needed

When humans interfere with the balance of nature they only succeed in making the problem worse.

Please find another way to solve this problem. It looks like there are other options out there.

Please don’t.

Please, please come up with something else besides a mass slaughtering of healthy animals. You can come up with NOTHING else like oral vaccines??

Are you crazy?? This is inhumane! Let's find a different way from killing harmless animals. I cannot believe that anyone thinks this is an option! PLEASE THINK!

Not like wardens care, but this is like cutting off their nose to spite their face...pissing the general public off isn't recommended...horrible choice to do this...disgusted.

Killing wildlife is not the solution. Please take other options and long term effects into consideration.

I like oral vaccine method