There are many things that make me happy: visits from out-of-town friends, unsolicited hugs from my daughter, Kozy Shack Chocolate Pudding.
But one thing stands out from all those warm and fuzzies and that's when hunters are attacked by the animals they hunt. Recent headlines that have given me great pleasure include:
"Hunter attacked by black bear," "Mountain lion pounces on local hunter" and "Swedish hunter attacked by elk."
Yep—I love it.
If anything qualifies as a non-sport it is the carefree killing of the lovely wild species that peacefully roam our forests and mountains. I don't care if you eat what you kill or not. I don't care if you were the one who wrote, "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang," in my opinion there is absolutely nothing at all sport-like to this pastime.
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The hunting of deer and rabbit is partially responsible for cougars and coyote having to encroach upon domesticated animals. This in turn can cause these animals to be ordered hunted themselves.
In my home state of Washington, there has been a dreadful incline in cougar slaughter. The reason lies within our state's Fish and Wildlife department's greed and lack of foresight while attempting to placate hunters.
This passage can be found in an April '08 article on the website of High Country News:
"The spike in cougar deaths resulted in part from a radical change in the state’s game-management plan.
After the hound-hunting ban passed, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials quickly liberalized hunting regulations in order to control the cougar population and maintain the revenue from cougar licenses.
They extended the hunting season by six months, doubled the legal bag limit, and rolled half-price cougar tags (traditionally sold to just 1,000 hunters a year) into big-game hunting packages."
And you know how hunters are. Once they get the big green-light to over-hunt, they are eager and more than willing to do so. Hey, bring the kids! Junior's old enough for his first kill.
Is it not enough that we recklessly enslave animals for our entertainment?
Hunting is not a sport. It is simple-minded bloodlust that cheapens life and creates a revenue stream for a chosen few.
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6 months ago
Well written, very well written.
I'm stayin' out of this one.
As Mikey Vick would say "I gots no dawg in this fight".
from 6 months ago
I'm surprised I haven't been flooded with Ted Nugent types defending their right to kill ... thanks for the comment.
6 months ago
Oh, don't worry, they'll show up.
5 months ago
I am always saddened by the seasonal wholesale harvest of natures most beautiful living things, Apples.
from 5 months ago
Apples are multiplying at dangerous levels but yet the best we can do about it is make sauce. Apples are "expendable" and a plague on society. Wait until your kids come back from trick or treat with a mouth full of razor blades and tell us how "beautiful" apples are. You people make me sick, you're worse than the Honey Dew Melon coalition.
Why don't you freakin' fruit's rights people focus on the real tragedy of humanity's back yard gardening excess ... Zucchini. Why can't you fruit freaks pool your resources for a sterilization program so I don't end up with a half a ton of squash dumped on my porch and Zucchini Bread recipes stuck under my windshield wipers in strip club parking lots? This obsession must end NOW!
You need to get your priorities in line with the rest of society before this great nation is overrun by fried squash blossoms. Grow up!
5 months ago
The difference, L.J., (if that is your real name) is that apples are beautiful, shiny, red, and might I say delicious. Zucchini on the other hand are like the cattle of vegetables. You can love a cute face on a deer or bunny or even a kitty cat. Nobody can love a warthog. And what is that vine that zuchini grow on an electrified strand of thorny giant hair. It' basically a weed. The Zuchini themselves are barely edible. Apples start ase fragrant blossom at the tops of trees like a hug for the sky. Please stop their destruction or I will be forced to march in a parade naked.
from 5 months ago
... and apples can be Ferrari-red whereas zucchini will always wear the Honda-green.
from 5 months ago
Oh gawd ... I've seen pictures of you naked, you win. You really should censor the MySpace thing you have going there, or make it private.
from 5 months ago
J.Michael that is...
5 months ago
Cathy,
I thought, in one of my more combative moods, that this article was just asking for a fight, so I indulged the best way I know how, sarcasm. As you did when the article was originally written, I expected a rabid(no pun intended) response. You failed to deliver such a confrontation, and in doing so renewed my faith in reason. It really would have been a sad statement on humanity if were simply waiting for several weeks to find enough offense with someone's posting to let them have it. Well played, you certainly took the high road on this one. And now I will run and hide before you pull out the big guns(pun definitely intended).
from 5 months ago
So, it's August apple boy...come and get this freakin' squash off'a my porch. I suggest using a 3/4 ton+ pickup or renting something from Penske...that way you'll only have to make a couple of trips.
And bring me apples.
5 months ago
I wish I had "big guns" to pull out ...
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