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The Compassion Experiment (Day 101)

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An Everyday Hero! I don't know how many people saw this, but we feel that this man deserves a medal: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/842289--man-charged-after-finding-deadly-beaver-traps-in-oshawa-pond How many people would do this for animals? To us, this man is a true hero. Though he stated his reason for taking the beaver traps, was to stop kids from getting hurt, the truth of the matter is, he took them, because he knows how the traps work, and it doesn't say in the article. How does a beaver trap work? It traps the beaver underwater and drowns it. What a way to die, trapped in a cage, underwater, until death sweeps in. Was the town of Oshawa really concerned that beavers were going to be responsible for drowning the city? In a case like this, involving animals, I think the city just assumed that people would ignore it, and pretend it wasn't happening, and/or that people generally just wouldn't give a @#$%. But they were wrong. Just like the Newmarket OSPCA