Animal-rights activists are criticizing City Hall for its attempts to reduce the local population of squirrels — the fleas of which can carry disease — by setting out pesticide bait traps. Officials, who say the city stopped setting the traps in late June, contend the measure was necessary in the interest of public health.
So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Do you feel the city was correct in setting out poison traps to reduce the number of local squirrels in the name of public health? Why or why not?”
Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the weekend edition. Please try to limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 5, 2005. Read the original PDF.