When I was a lad and Dad took me hunting around the farms of our relatives, there were certain animals he would terminate with extreme prejudice. He learned this as a boy.

He told me that there was no such thing as one fox, porcupine, racoon, skunk, weasel or whatever. Any animal that was any threat to the farm stock, crops or timber in any way, by predation, damage or disease (even the future possibility of disease, particularly rabies), had to go if it was near a farm.

So, it's a dicey call. I understand why you didn't pull. I haven't hunted for a fair time now and sometimes question why I continued to do so as long as I did. Photography would have been more fruitful and more rewarding but I didn't realize that until after I stopped hunting. I guess when you are taught about hunting beginning at age 5 it stays with you to some degree.

If it was my call? I kinda hate to say on accounta I really don't know for sure if I would pull, but, I think I would.