Penticton is a city in British Columbia  in the Okanagan Valley with a population of about 4o,ooo. It is one of the rare parts of Canada that gets very little or no snow, and it boasts of being nestled between two lakes with lots of summer fun.

It is also a tool belt with only hammers to its name where beavers are concerned.

3 beavers culled from Skaha Park pond

Industriousness killed the beavers.

Three of the flat-tailed, sharp-toothed animals were trapped and euthanized last month after making nuisances of themselves in the stormwater retention pond on the east side of Skaha Lake Park in Penticton.

You see what happens in this paragraph right? The words are carefully selected to present the least sympathetic picture of the beaver and the MOST sympathetic description of their dispatch. “Euthanized” “Culled” they just sound so gentle. And “sharptoothed animals” sounds like something that should be a jurassic park.

Len Robson, the city’s manager of public works, said the beavers were damming culverts and other equipment within the system, potentially putting the public at risk.

“If we let the beavers go in there, that pond won’t work and we end up backing up South Main Street and all those other areas during a flood event, so, unfortunately we have to exterminate the beaver from time to time,” said Robson.

“It’s not one of those things we like to do – it’s a necessity.”

Robson said the number of beavers that need to be removed from the pond varies on a year-to-year basis, with no animals destroyed in 2021.

It sounds so rational doesn’t it? Of course there’s NO OTHER WAY to prevent beavers from damming a culvert besides killing them right? You know like how we can only stop speeding on the hire with assassination?

Some one better write Len about a beaver deceiver, or maybe since it’s Canada a beaver baffler. Apparently the internet has been down since 1993 in those parts.