I just thought of something else to add to this discussion. I wonder now if all of the wildlife rehabilatators are spending all their time trying to rehabilitate injured animals and releasing them back into the wilds are just wasting their time if these animals will only die anyway. We have several of these facilities here in Michigan that do this. In fact one time we took a fox cub that my husband found to one of these facilities. It sure would be a waste of time and money if this were true.