How would you like to make $100,000 a year by only working thirty hours a week? Just imagine being able to show up at your job around nine o'clock in the morning without any boss getting mad at you for being late. While picking up the keys to your brand new, company truck, you check your messages in order to see what work needs to be done during the day. You head out and make your rounds to the customers that have requested your services, and then return to the office at three 'o clock in the afternoon to pick up your personal vehicle. The rest of the afternoon you are free to spend time with your family, and to complete some odd chores around the house. Many Americans believe that this scenario is too good to be a reality, and that is not possible. However, according to the outdoor magazine Field and Stream, and increasing amount of blue collar workers are leaving their current careers to pursue the American dream of earning a higher income by doing a smaller amount of labor. How are they accomplishing this unimaginable task? They are trapping nuisance racoons. "We've got guys out there making in excess of $100,000 a year nuisance trapping," declares Steve Greene of the National Trapping Association(qtd. in Field and Stream 8).
             The racoon has become its own industry over the past four years in the state of Virginia, but the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries(VDGIF) has repetitively denied the appeal of both coonhunters and the general public for a continual chasing season. As it stands at the
             present moment, racoons can only be chased from August 1 to May 31. During that chasing season, only two racoons can be harvested per hunting party each night(Hunting & Trapping in Virginia 62).With these current game laws in effect, it is easy to see why the racoon population has risen so dramatically; and why they are considered nuisance animals. Drastic measures need to be implemented in order to ...