Wabbit Season ... Duck Season... Conservation Season

I was raised in a part of the country where hunting is as much a part of the culture as Thanksgiving dinner. In fact the local board of education in that area has closed school for the opening day of deer season because otherwise absentee students would far out number those students in attendance and the cost of keeping the schools open for so few students did not make sense. While I never took part in hunting, I do support hunting but in the sense that is hunting for a purpose not for personal pride or trophies. That kind of killing isn’t hunting, it is brutal and is without honor and there is nothing sportsmanlike about killing animals just for the joy of killing them or to have a trophy. A true hunter is someone who will eat what they kill and many will use other parts of the animal for something such as bones for tools and jewelry and hides for clothing or many other things. Sometimes hunters will have to cull the populations of certain animals because man has driven out the natural predators of those animals. When this happens animals deplete their food sources and become malnourished and sick. They also suffer genetically without the weeding out of the weak and ill by natural predators the whole population is made weaker. However hunting doesn’t necessarily correct the problems created by the weaker in the species breeding in to the population; Often times hunting removes the better genetic animals leaving only the weaker ones to carry on the next year and the year after and so on and so on. Leaving a much lesser animal than what was previously hunted in less than one human generation. Hunters will not take a shot with gun or arrow if they think they can not kill the animal. Hunters will not let an animal suffer needlessly. Hunters do respect the animals they hunt. Killers do not respect the animals they kill. They may say they respect them but their actions speak for themselves. Running an animal in the woods with dogs until it is exhausted and shooting it when it is finally treed or cornered, is not hunting it is cruelty. Baiting animals is not hunting. Flying helicopters or planes to run an animal to exhaustion and shooting them from the air is not hunting it is brutality. Trophy hunting so called big game is not hunting it is ego feeding senselessness that serves no purpose, and it is essentially public masturbation with a gun. Predatory animals tend to avoid people until they have no where else to go. We push into the land where these animals have lived and hunted for eons and expect they will yield to our so called progress. Their yielding is called extinction and our invasion of lands we do not need is wasteful and wanton disregard for the natural world. The hunting of predatory animals should be outlawed throughout the world. The US can take a stand for the world to follow and make it illegal for any US Citizen to hunt all predatory animals and birds regardless of where it is in the world. Other nations would follow. The business of safari hunting would become not profitable and other businesses around animal conservation would most likely take their place. Other benefits will be that non predatory and herd animals will be thinned more productively by their natural predators than human culling can accomplish leading to healthier animals. Some non predatory animals should also become protected because killing them does not serve a purpose for sustaining human life. Trapping for fur and pelts is also a practice which has outlived its purpose. Traps do not discriminate and as often as not an animal which was not wanted ends up in the trap and is killed needlessly. More times than not that unwanted kill is just left to rot, it is not eaten or used in any manner. It is brutality. Fur farming while with a separate set of problems does, when done correctly, preserve the wild populations of those animals. You may disagree with what I have to say and that is fine, and if you partake in the killing of animals for sport rather than for purpose it still makes you a killer and not a hunter. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards