Obviously that was the beaver’s first mistake. It should never have protected itself or its young from the approaching dog. Now officials in Red Deer Calgary have no choice but to kill it and its entire family so that the off leash park can be left in its slathering, ruthless peace. You understand: dogs are more important than beavers, and every dog needs the liberty to chase an aquatic rodent that won’t defend itself.
City spokesman Trevor Poth says a dog was swimming in the water and chasing the beaver when the large rodent turned to defend itself. Because of the severity of the attacks, Poth says it’s necessary to trap and kill the beavers to keep park users safe.
Some weaker minded folk might feel sorry for the beaver, given that it was just protecting itself and its family, given that its summer and it has new kits to look after (well not anymore –), given that the dog was an intruder and the beaver was in its home. Ahh, but there are no second amendment rights for beavers. Like uppity slaves with pitchforks they can’t possibly be allowed to defend themselves. They’re second-class non-citizens that don’t matter. The only reason they were allowed to remain in that park in the first place is because it’s a dogpark and nobody cares about it. Now that the dog owners have been offended, their time is up. A beaver’s only option when being pursued by a dangerous attacker is to go quietly and make the sacrifice as peaceful, or as “sporty” as possible, depending on the mood of the attacker. End of story.
So some lucky trapper gets the job to take out the twelve beavers in the park, although they kindly won’t kill any newbies that replace them, at least not until they make the same egregious mistake of trying to save their own wretched lives.
That seems fair.
