Wildlife considered nuisances are often removed by methods that cause significant suffering, when humane deterrence and exclusion offer equally effective alternatives.
Animals caught in body-grip traps designed to kill quickly often do not die instantly, suffering from broken limbs, strangulation, or drowning before death. Animals relocated from their territory to unfamiliar areas face starvation, predation, and territorial conflicts with resident wildlife in the release area, usually dying within weeks. Poison rodenticides cause internal bleeding over days before death and kill non-target predators through secondary poisoning. Humane exclusion methods achieve the same outcome — removal from human structures — without causing any animal suffering.