9:23

The Sun
September 23, 2013

Dear Editor,

Are we a city or a zoo? There is something to the pride we take in being a ‘green’ city but I and my fellow citizens feel that allowing animals to run rampant through the streets has always been an issue that needs addressing — see the coyote controversy of a few months ago — but now that we are having to put up with drunken abusive beavers and rabbits on our streets we feel it has gone to far.

Something needs to be done!

Just yesterday I was enjoying a latte on a lovely little patio downtown when this offensive rodent approached me and started to berate me for being a scum sucking capitalist. I replied that calling me ‘scum-sucking’ was perhaps a bit of a pot and kettle moment. He (I am assuming it was a he from his bad breath and BO) then threw an empty bottle of scotch at me and collapsed in a heap muttering ‘it wasn’t his fault’ and ‘don’t blame the victim’.

And, after all that, as I stood up to leave, he raised his filthy face from the gutter and had the audacity to ask me for some spare change because he “was out of work.”

This is insupportable. We need to send this beaver and all the other wildlife littering our streets back where they belong. They’ll be happier there among their own kind and away from decent, tax-paying citizens who want no truck with four-legged vermin.

I call on my fellow citizens to rise up in protest and demand that something is done. The city needs to act now. The city needs to act decisively.

Pete d’Leo
Concerned Citzen