*&$#@%* coyotes!! (Read 1402 times)

Um ... what?

I guess I'm just not used to it being so acceptable to talk about shooting beautiful, harmless animals! In England if you hunt anything you're pretty much seen as a bit of a d**k really. I guess it's just a different culture. I understand they may annoy you but for me, personally, I can't understand how you think we have the right to take their lives because they are an "inconvenience". Don't you think they were here first?

I guess I'm just not used to it being so acceptable to talk about shooting beautiful, harmless animals! In England if you hunt anything you're pretty much seen as a bit of a d**k really. I guess it's just a different culture.

Yeah...'cause no cultural elite people in England hunt...

Yeah...'cause no cultural elite people in England hunt...

hmm she makes a point they are d**ks

I guess I'm just not used to it being so acceptable to talk about shooting beautiful, harmless animals! In England if you hunt anything you're pretty much seen as a bit of a d**k really. I guess it's just a different culture. I understand they may annoy you but for me, personally, I can't understand how you think we have the right to take their lives because they are an "inconvenience". Don't you think they were here first?

Um ... what? Can you point to the post where I said any of that, please? Or is it your impression that us Yanks are all the same and all 300 million of us can be lumped together? Maybe you could target your comments a little better. Actually, now that I look - NOBODY said that. Srlopez made a joke, and somebody else cited a state law on the issue. The only pro-hunting talk came in response to your post. I've never hunted anything in my life. And I spent a morning with Bambi just today. My log even says so. And for the record, I lived in the U.K. for three years. In both northern England and Scotland, hunting - specifically stag hunting - is a way of life, not much different than in places like northern Michigan in our country. And sadly, the arguably cruelest kind of hunting there is - fox hunting - is native to and still practiced primarily in your country, or was until 2004.

And sadly, the arguably cruelest kind of hunting there is - fox hunting - is native to and still practiced primarily in your country, or was until 2004.

Lest we forget where "mad cow" disease originated. Because of the time I spent in the UK I can no longer donate blood in the US. Nice. Apparently it's not all rainbows and sunshine as far as livestock is concerned in Great Britain, either. Debbie, unless you are a strict vegan who wears no leather or other animal products it's hard for your stance to not come off completely hypocritical and ignorant. Hunting is not about going and blowing up anything that moves...for some few it might be, but for the vast majority of hunters I personally know it's about putting food on the table and helping control populations of animals with few natural enemies. It also brings a TON of money into a lot of regions of the world (including the state I reside in...the state with the highest unemployment in the entire US) that are financially struggling.

Srlopez made a joke, and somebody else cited a state law on the issue. The only pro-hunting talk came in response to your post.

Hold on there. My singular contribution to this thread was riffing on the idea that it's the PhDs doing the helicopter hunting.

I just saw on this thread a lot of people encouraging the OP to shoot and kill coyotes purely on the reason that they annoy him/her. I was just expressing my shock at this, as nobody I know would ever condone hunting.

Examples please? Who said that? And while nobody *you* know may hunt, rest assured your country has a rather active hunting culture. From what I remember, it's actually great hunting, if you're into that kind of thing. Tens of thousands of Brits hunt for everything from at least six species of deer to all sorts of birds to wild boar. I doubt 1% of them qualify as "upper class." Plenty of them hunt to put food on the table. Just like in most places. Actually, I just checked. Over a million Brits annually participate in shooting and hunting, and your leading hunting organization - well, one of many - has almost 150,000 members. You can actually hunt for snipe in the UK. I thought snipe hunting was just an old joke.