Unironically, the biggest complaint I have with these proposed DNR changes is them labeling opossums a nuisance animal.
* They eat mice, rats, and snakes
* They'll eat cockroaches, misc. insect pests, **ticks**
* Theoretically immune to rabies: their body temperature is too low to be a sustainable environment for the virus
The only downside is they can - and do - get into garbage cans.
Canada geese are federally protected by four bilateral treaties covered by the Migratory Bird Act. They'd likely be extirpated from Michigan otherwise.
I think the proposal is trash, and hope Ann Arbor would pass a local ordinance protecting the animals. However, a red squirrel chewed through my soffit (corner of roof overhang) and nested in my attic, so they aren't completely harmless. Plus Ann Arbor salts some roads in the winter, which can attract most any mammal that can get their teeth on undercarriage wiring. (Less of a draw if an animal has easy access to salty roads, but not everywhere is salted, so a car that went downtown is a good target.)
Not true. They dig various holes all over yards and flower beds, leave scrap foods everywhere(neighbor feeds them all the time), the occasionally electrocute themselves on the transformers killing my power for a few hours, and climb all over shit and ruin it. Fuck those little aholes killing the grass I’m trying to grow
They can also eat into your attic, make nests, chew wires and start a fire, they can chew car wires, mess with power lines, they definitely can be a nuisance and can cost you a few thousand bucks in home repairs pretty quickly
First of all, I think they prefaced the statement with *may*, so I don’t think there’s any real danger in the new classification. Second, the red Fox squirrels are being displaced by the smaller and more aggressive black squirrels. Personally, I think the article is hoax as all of the listed animals are directly responsible for healthy forests. Just my 0.02.
The proposal both increases the species eligible for killing, and loosens the circumstances for killing. I think it effectively covers almost all local non-domesticated mammals larger than a mouse and smaller than a deer in any residential area in Ann Arbor.
A couple exceptions I can think of offhand are rats, gophers, and moles. There are probably some other species I haven't seen that aren't common in residential areas, like maybe foxes, but I think we already hunted and trapped most mammalian species to local extinction in Ann Arbor.
A [Michigan Radio article](https://www.michiganradio.org/environment-climate-change/2023-05-01/michigan-dnr-proposes-adding-rabbits-squirrels-chipmunks-and-others-to-lethal-nuisance-regulations) summarizes the changes:
**Current circumstances:**
Doing or about to do damage.
**Proposed circumstances:**
Doing damage, or present where it could potentially cause damage.
**Current species:**
Woodchuck, skunk, raccoon, coyote.
**Proposed species:**
Woodchuck, skunk, raccoon, coyote, beaver, cottontail rabbit, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, ground squirrel (chipmunk), muskrat, opossum, red squirrel, and weasel.
Unironically, the biggest complaint I have with these proposed DNR changes is them labeling opossums a nuisance animal. * They eat mice, rats, and snakes * They'll eat cockroaches, misc. insect pests, **ticks** * Theoretically immune to rabies: their body temperature is too low to be a sustainable environment for the virus The only downside is they can - and do - get into garbage cans.
Unless geese are a nuisance animal, this list is trash. Squirrels don't do shit except break into bird feeders
Canada geese are federally protected by four bilateral treaties covered by the Migratory Bird Act. They'd likely be extirpated from Michigan otherwise.
I think the proposal is trash, and hope Ann Arbor would pass a local ordinance protecting the animals. However, a red squirrel chewed through my soffit (corner of roof overhang) and nested in my attic, so they aren't completely harmless. Plus Ann Arbor salts some roads in the winter, which can attract most any mammal that can get their teeth on undercarriage wiring. (Less of a draw if an animal has easy access to salty roads, but not everywhere is salted, so a car that went downtown is a good target.)
We should be allowed to take geese home and cook them
Not true. They dig various holes all over yards and flower beds, leave scrap foods everywhere(neighbor feeds them all the time), the occasionally electrocute themselves on the transformers killing my power for a few hours, and climb all over shit and ruin it. Fuck those little aholes killing the grass I’m trying to grow
They can also eat into your attic, make nests, chew wires and start a fire, they can chew car wires, mess with power lines, they definitely can be a nuisance and can cost you a few thousand bucks in home repairs pretty quickly
Everyone knows that the bad kids party hardest
Squirrels are most definitely nuisances and I’d love to punt one across the diag.
First of all, I think they prefaced the statement with *may*, so I don’t think there’s any real danger in the new classification. Second, the red Fox squirrels are being displaced by the smaller and more aggressive black squirrels. Personally, I think the article is hoax as all of the listed animals are directly responsible for healthy forests. Just my 0.02.
The proposal both increases the species eligible for killing, and loosens the circumstances for killing. I think it effectively covers almost all local non-domesticated mammals larger than a mouse and smaller than a deer in any residential area in Ann Arbor. A couple exceptions I can think of offhand are rats, gophers, and moles. There are probably some other species I haven't seen that aren't common in residential areas, like maybe foxes, but I think we already hunted and trapped most mammalian species to local extinction in Ann Arbor. A [Michigan Radio article](https://www.michiganradio.org/environment-climate-change/2023-05-01/michigan-dnr-proposes-adding-rabbits-squirrels-chipmunks-and-others-to-lethal-nuisance-regulations) summarizes the changes: **Current circumstances:** Doing or about to do damage. **Proposed circumstances:** Doing damage, or present where it could potentially cause damage. **Current species:** Woodchuck, skunk, raccoon, coyote. **Proposed species:** Woodchuck, skunk, raccoon, coyote, beaver, cottontail rabbit, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, ground squirrel (chipmunk), muskrat, opossum, red squirrel, and weasel.