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Damn, you found a shiny irl.

Very true! Most prey animals will reproduce more often and have more babies at a time, as they're bound to lose a good portion. Nature hasn't quite worked out how mankind has decided to treat predators yet.

The true face of "take a picture, it'll last longer!"

You can determine where you place it, but not where it ends up. Also, if one person is using poison, others around them may be as well, so there's always more than we think there is.

I often see a similar problem with people trying to help wildlife. One thing that comes up a lot is concerning foxes with mange. People want to help them, but they are hard to catch to bring in for help. What they end up doing is putting Ivermectin (yes, the fake COVID cure) into food and placing it out for the foxes. It can work, but getting the fox to eat the food, get it on a schedule where it is effective, not having other animals or pets eating it first, and not having a handful of well intentions neighbors all watching the same fox dosing it at once is a lot of variables to control.

Thread after thread, people get mad at the rehabbers asking them not to treat wild animals on their own. We get people want to help, but doing random stuff to animals rarely makes things better. If it does come into a rehab, no we have no idea what substances it's taken.

Animals don't understand what we do to them or their food, but we should, and we should be more thoughtful about it. I am glad you take the time to consider them as well.