Gentle environmentalists frustrated by garden-nibbling wildlife; retaliate with brutal, shocking violence
Oh, the humanity:
This NY Times article made me chuckle–for all the green pieties of the Times’ readership, things can turn real ugly when one’s garden is threatened or the herons are using your koi pond for a sushi bar. In addition to the porky-flattening grandma above, pitchforks, drownings, shotguns, and various unspecified violent means are resorted to, sometimes without a pang of guilt, to defend one’s heirloom tomatoes and arugula beds.
Then again, sometimes there’s plenty of guilt and a little new age ritual to absolve it:
Finally, the artist decided he would have to shoot the animals. First, though, he went to each hole and made an announcement.
“I said: ‘I intend to kill you. You have 24 hours to get out,’ ” he recalls. “I wanted to give them fair warning. I said, ‘If I were you, I would find another place to live.’ I also promised them I would not take a shot unless I knew it would be fatal.”
He is making this into a funny story, he says, but when he killed his first woodchuck he “literally felt sick.”
“I went outside and knelt down to it and said a little prayer to whatever the powers that be that when my turn comes, I will do it as gracefully and uncomplainingly.”
Eventually, though, he embraced his mission, and grew so obsessed with it that an aunt began to call him Woodchuck Johnny.
The squirrel drowners–she an environmentalist and lawyer–have gotten eerily desensitized at their rather elaborate squirrel-destruction method Part of me isn’t surprised; if we didn’t effectively rationalize our need to kill pests, our species would have died out long ago. Whacking woodchucks is just as necessary, and not that different from,stepping on crop-devouring locusts, except that the woodchucks are cuter. And gooshier.
Exit question: do you think it’s possible that this whole green thing is just a sham the city folk put up to fool each other?
Nah, couldn’t be.
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Oh my gosh this made me laugh. I’ve always known leftys were only ‘peaceful’ when convenient.
I mostly can’t kill anything. I even save spiders and assorted bugs that make their way inside.
But mosquitos and ants were made to be killed. Any and every way possible.
I also don’t eat meat except rarely. But I found myself wondering how Woodchuck would taste… Might be hard to cook them though if they’re blown to bits.
One more comment… I am going to make a T-shirt with a little pig running away and a hatchet kind of in the upper corner and have it say, ‘If pigs don’t want to be eaten, they really need to stop tasting so good.’
The meat that can tempt me is pork.. baby back ribs, pork tenderloin… MMmmmm tasty.
Bacon tastes gooood.
Pork Chops taste goooood.
They didn’t invade your garden…
Your garden invaded them!!
“Love me, love me, love me…. I’m a Liberal”
Phil Ochs
#97 iowavette
Squirrels, woodchucks and raccoons are not cute, furry domestic pets. They are WILD ANIMALS. And they will not hesitate to ACT like wild animals.
They also carry parasites like tics, and diseases like rabies.
They don’t “love human beings” - or even want to co-habitate with human beings. It’s naive, dangerous and self-delusional to believe otherwise.
It’s different if you live in the country. But if you live in the city, you do your neighbors and yourself no favors by encouraging this kind of thing. In some places there are fines for feeding wild animals to draw them into populated areas like this, and rightfully so.
It doesn’t matter how “cute” these animals are… It’s NEVER a good idea to encourage wild animals to share their living space with human beings. EVER.
What was said does not matter. I just get a funny feeling he/she is pro-
choicedeath.BM,
NIIIICCCCCE pic of little goofy mole
I used to manage over 300 acres of organic farm outside of Berkeley Springs. We marketed (For quite a nice profit) to the folks in and around DC.
Organic - Yeah, all our stuff was but the state still sprayed chemicals 3, 4 and sometimes 5 times a year to kill pests. So much for organic huh?
Deer would take a bite out of each melon and not only eat what they needed and leave. Good meat so we killed a couple and spread the stuff we cut out around the edge of the melons to keep them out.
Groundhogs/Squirrels Again, pests but very tasty all. We used to cook them up on a regular basis.
Copperheads? Death on site. No rattle, no warning and no mercy. In our view it was child endangerment NOT to kill them.
Coons, good if cooked right and yeah, if you found one dog that could take on a coon and come out with nothing more than a full belly … you shoulda kept it!
Rabbits? I can usually hit them on a dead-run (no pun intended) with my ruger .22 pistol. Might have given them a slightly gamy taste but boiled up right nice in a stew. (My Ma is a much better shot though)
Point being, there really is no such thing as organic unless it is grown indoors. If you gotta kill the critters to keep them out of your pockets, make use of what you can and don’t waste anything.
Conversely, if the liberal mindset is such that it can find just cause for committing acts of violence, maybe when they get their communist/socialist
utopiahell they have been wanting for so long and see how much it threatens their existence … just maybe some of them will join us in our stand. (Though we may have to teach some of them how to handle firearms properly)Just sayin
I guess all those Disney movies didn’t take…
TEEEEEJ
Okay guys…it’s time for me to express myself.
First of all…MostlyAnnoyed and Mom2jack…I am a conservative, just not when it comes to animals and the environment. Actually, animal rights is not a leftist movement…it just has to do with your feeling for animals. I do NOT have Bush Derangement Syndrome nor do I support Obama. There is NO WAY I would support Obama. I am a conservative person who thinks we should consider animals and not cause undue suffering. Capiche?
Irish Rose…the cockroach comment. The idea here is what is in your heart. Certainly there are some situations where killing would be hard to avoid..for instance like a cockroach invasion. The question is do you partake in killing because it brings you joy or do you do it ONLY when there is no other option. The question is the nobility and compassion in one’s heart. To your question, the other day I found ONE cockroach in my mother’s bathroom. I scooped him up in a towel and took him outside and released him. If there were many, then I would probably kill them but only if I really had to. The difference is I sincerely do not want to kill and I do my best not to. I put the biggest attention on animals who have a higher capacity to feel…and that means mammals and the like. Vegetables don’t have the same capacity to feel.
It looks like I’ll be giving a big donation to PeTA due to so many of your sophmoric, moronic, and rude comments. That’s OK…as I said before, I can afford it and PeTA is a noble organization and does good work. Too bad I cannot say the same for most of you.
Iowavette…thank you for having some consciousness and consideration.
Per Penn and Teller’s awesome Showtime series, “BullSh*t”, peta kills 75% of the animals they “rescue”. Keep donating, they’ll keep killing.
TEEEEEEJ
I am still amazed but the animal loving hippy taking a sledgehammer to a porcipine. A freaking sledgehammer. A bullet I could understand but a sledgehammer is positively mid-evil.
ROFLMAO
That turned out even better than I had hoped! Thanks, BM.
We have racoons and those gosh horrible opossoms’ they are really nasty teethy things. The racoons climb trees, get on the roof, go down trees, looking for cat food and their poop on the roof gets everywhere on the ground when it rains. I don’t have moles, I use bug granules to kill the gurbs, they eat them. Now the moles, they are really hard to get rid of. They won’t let me fire my 357 in the city unless it is for self defense. We have javelins, I have eaten them and they do not taste good. No amount of bbq sauce will help.
This has been fun reading the posts.
L
I have a gopher problem…damn things are eating my roses from 6 to 4 inches below ground. I’d love to borrow that sledge hammer. One afternoon the cat watched from behind the Begonias to one pushing dirt up and out from below the safety of a rose. I stood there from the other side, watching. Neither saw me. The cat pounced. Missed! Stuck his whole leg down the hole. Stupid gopher.
I understand some of your points Soliel. I will certainly not kill anything without cause. (Which is more than we can say for many urban dwellers in today’s society … much less outdoors enthusiasts and those that live in very rural areas)
I do not kill insects when there is a capacity to remove them safely. I do not kill animals for “fun”. When I was a kid, we would get five .22 shells every morning. We were expected to bring home something for dinner on the way back. A deer goes down very quickly with a well-placed .22 but you better be certain to hit it in the eye or the ear or you will be chasing it for miles. Likewise groundhogs, if you do not hit them in the head, they will shimmy right back down in the hole. If any shell was spent without something to show for it, we were held accountable and had to answer for it. If it was found that someone had left an animal wounded, they were sent out to fetch it.
However, I do NOT believe in allowing anyone or anything to dictate to me what a free market economy will bear. I do not see the need for mercy or concern when I am defending my property from any invaders. As for the use of chicken wire, most deer can jump over an outhouse from a flat-footed stance. A fence never even makes them think twice. Ground dwelling critters can easily get under the fence as well.
Granted, animal invasions are a lot different than the invasion of human beings (like the one we are currently facing) but there are times and occasions when the use of force is the only viable option. This can be evidenced by Johnny Woodchucks conversational approach. I just wonder if he sang Kumbayah to them as he killed them.
As for PETA … as I recall, they have made some pretty good efforts as well. I especially like the way they dumped the bodies in the fields. Real classy. As I said, I agree with some of your stance and it is after all, your money and your right to do as you please with it (at least after the government gets their share) but maybe donations would be better served with fish hatcheries or other conservationist movements?
Still just sayin’
Here is a popular weekend activity at this time of the year courtesy of Prof. Tom Lehrer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2If9bVJJLY
on post 114, it should be gophers not moles hard to get rid of.
L
I am neither moronic, sophmoric and rarely rude. I will not, however, ever allow the animals of this earth have an equal footing to me and my fellow humans. If it ever should occur that I must choose between an animal or a human , the animal loses. I must agree with Irish’s point of inviting animals into urban and residential areas through uses of bird feeders, salt licks and the like. It is totally anathema to the law of nature and to the respect of other’s property. Again, I will not allow anthropomorphic attempts in my life,ever. You may certainly follow your philosophy if you choose, but keep your “pets” on your own grounds and don’t waste a veterinarian’s time when Fluffy or Kitty get infections or injuries from animals.
…and how many animals did they euthanize and toss into dumpsters? How many Hollywood elites drumming the cause sit on leather seats?
If PeTA is the moral conscience, I prefer Trinity Church.
P.S. I prefer to do my “good work” for humans who are suffering. Care to donate – you being rich and all. (click on moniker – shameless plug)
You are right Irish Rose. When I was young we caught just about everything catch able insects reptiles mammals and fooled around with them for awhile then let them go. A course diamondbacks and such got beheaded on the spot. At one time we had decided to catch some ground squirrels and we built this huge enclosure for them filled it with dirt and everything. The idea was to make a sort of ant farm only with ground squirrels. Well once we had several squirrels in there if we approached the habitat these things would launch themselves at the chicken wire head on with a crazed look on their faces hissing and growling as cute little squirrels will do. They were vicious; by the end of the day we had let them loose and scrapped the idea. A couple more points are most bears that end up having to be tracked down and killed have been fed by humans at one point. Also if an animal population becomes too large, like say deer, and there is a bad year of weather they begin to eat every thing in reach and when that runs out they all, all, slowing starve to death. That’s not compassionate, allowing that is insensitive.
Lol, you mean the same PETA that paid money and worked as a front organization for ELF? The same PETA that:
You mean that terrorist-group supporting group the FBI started an investigation into for funding ELF?
Oh, yes, they are truly noble. /sarc
Hey! Isn’t that cruelty to animals?
PETA is gonna love Billy Mays And these old people pounding the crap out of coyotes
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WOW, I see PeTA getting rich off of someone donating $5 per evil post.
Give them another $5 for me
Cha-ching $5
Here’s another couple questions. We hear a lot of talk about shark attacks off Florida, gosh, remember those shark feeding expeditions some lunatics, err, people, were hosting over the last decade? You think sharks are as dumb as they pretend to be? You think they have remained relatively unchanged over the millennia because they couldn’t adapt? Well the dinner bell was rung what do you expect? What peril have these people wrought on us by influencing the evolutionary process of these notoriously hungry and not very finicky beasts? On the bright side if any islamists try to swim ashore they better watch out, the sharks think they have food.
How do you know what LGM looks like? It would be easy to find my picture on line, just google sonofdy.
What, MS-13?
Anyway, We i live in the LA area, its mostly winged critters, and tree rat. If I could get away with it, I’d be more than happy to knock off every possum , rat, pigeon (rats with feathers) and raven in sight. All nasty and obnoxious creatures.
Soleil,
Sadly, your $5 donations to PETA will be spent on clothes made of petroleum based nylon by some Hippie who figured out the Democrat style of capitalism: Large corporations who make money by producing a product and selling it for profit are bad. However, corrupt organizations who are tax exempt that support Marxists and Terrorist organizations and dupe people who are ignorant of the facts but merely want to do right by the world are good. This is why most members of Greenpeace do not vote Republican. (BTW - Greatest naval victory in the history of France - Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior!)
If you want to make a difference, whatever state you live in will have a Department of Natural Resources. They will probably have a shooting safety program for kids. Donate the money you would have given to a Communists to them. The Kids need it and shooting teaches discipline, self control and competitive spirit (all things that the Democrats are against).
Also, my wife doesn’t like to kill things either. The difference is, we lived on a farm in the US and she understands the importance of not loosing the garden to deer or the chickens to coyotes or the kids to rattlenakes. She doesn’t kill but she never minded when I did.
Most importantly, she never tried to impose her will out of some misguided moral fervor. I really don’t care if you do not like to kill. That is your business. Last I checked, this is what America is all about.
Good luck.
I suggest using a 22 for shooting raccoons, not a shotgun as was earlier suggested.
Soliel - cha ching
Not when we’re done LOL.
If you want evil, you’re going to have to log into an Al Qaeda website…you know, the ones who partake of the wholesale slaughter of HUMANS.
Here’s some animal evil for ya…let the check writing begin.
1. I’ve shot at least 10 deer in my lifetime, when hunting with my grandfather. (do i get 5 bucks per kill, or just for the statement?)
2. I’ve been fishing and crabbing so many times, I’m sure there’s thousands of creatures i’ve killed, and consumed, all for the the pure pleasure of a wonderful crab cake sandwich, or a lovely Chesapeake Bay rockfish, oven baked with lemon and basil.
3. At least in the last 10 years i’ve terminated 4 moles from my grandmother’s garden with *extreme prejudice*. Rifle shot to the head. 1 shot, 1 kill.
4. 1 snake, terminated for the crime of scaring my child. 2 shotgun blasts.
5. Target: 1 bear. Hunting with grandfather. 500 bonus points for me for it being REALLY tasty, with a lovely glass of red wine.
6. The mass consumption of chicken, beef and pork i have, and will continue to, consume on a regular basis.
Oh, and i SMASHED a spider this morning on my way out the front door. On purpose. Because I could.
That’s at LEAST 35 dollars. If i really thought about it, i’d have you bankrupt by the end of the weekend.
And we wont even start on PEOPLE.
*shrug*
early weekend for me. I think i’ll go hunting………..
This is how, So don’t get out of line or I’ll have to make you an elephant or something.
Yes, I cried for the mole afterwards.
How did you cook your bear? My limited experience with bear ended up tasting really gamey.
I had a good time fishing a few weekends ago, maybe I should head up north again for some more. Have fun with the hunting Abstract
Oh I am not pro “death” as you say. I think abortion is a serious issue and is another form of killing but killing animals is not right either, especially when there is another way. They both matter.
Every single spiritual text on the planet says “do not kill”. It does not say “do not kill humans” it says “do not kill”. All killing. If one goes to a slaughterhouse you will know why. It’s repulsive, it’s gruesome, the animals protest to the last minute. There is a reason for this and this is because it is not the way.
For real enviromental nitwit-ism, you simply can’t beat the animal loving
folksfools in Florida who feed meat and other food to the alligators that live in apartment complex ponds and golf courses.Then they wonder why the alligator attacks a small child, comes after a group of golfers, or swallows a neighbors’ labrador retriever whole.
When I lived in Florida I experienced this first hand, when a friend and I were enjoying a walk around the concrete jogging path that surrounds the lake on her apartment complex property. An adult alligator surfaced, and came charging out of the pond at us with jaws agape. The week after we were attacked, the same gator attacked a lady walking her pekinese after work. The gator was put down by wildlife officials shortly thereafter.
I’m always amused by folks like sledgehammer granny in the photo up there… they’re always shocked and traumatized when the cute little furries that they have invited into their living spaces, suddenly start acting like the wild animals that they actually are (instead of the dewey-eyed, intelligent little animal friends that they manufacture in their fantasies).
So you are not pro-abortion? That was the reference. All too often these people who tout animal rights are pro abortion. That would be the ultimate hypocrisy. I was trying to find out if you were of the same cloth.
As for animals having rights, I am of the mindset they have entirely too many rights and, therefore, should pay taxes.
On June 6th, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Soliel said:
Clearly, you’ve clearly never read the Koran. Or for that matter, the Old Testament.
IR,
That’ll leave a mark.
All your $5 are belonging to me!
BLIND_MULE, go ahead, I am almost impossiable to insult!!! BTW almost anything on the need with sonofdy will be me since i first took the handle when setting up my first email account on a hilltop in bosnia in 1998. Yes i am on every email junk mail list in the universe. Apparantly I have won dozens of lotterys overseas, there has been a regular plauge in my unknow relatives overseas, and someone thinks my “male member” is in desprate need of enlargement.
oBORGama of 08,
He’d talk to the varmit,
Yes, that’s the ticket,
And to pay for what they ate,
He’d make a pitch,
to tax the rich…
I believe the spiritual text of the Old Testament originally said, “Thou shalt not murder”, implying that it was another human. I think it has lost something in the translation.
I wonder how bad the deer “feel” when around 200 of them come crashing through the windshields of cars and kill that many people every year in the US. Do you suppose the deer websites are admonishing them against killing humans?
in fact, have fun I will check in to see if any of you can do anything creative with this ugly mug of mine. better yet, send it to my email sonofdy@hotmail.com
I just like ribbing lgm because of some of the asinine comments he makes on the trollish fly.
Yeah I know, but I like to see what people who are more creative than me can do.
Actually, the text in the Commandments is “Thall shall not murder” when you go back to the ancient Hebrew script. Death is mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures as apt punishment under the Mosaic law even though it did change with the New Covenant when Christ ransomed his perfect life for our sinful lives. However, the eating of animals has been allowed since the time of the flood. Killing for fun? I do not see it but that is just me.
As I said, I agree with some of your points and as long as you give the socialist gubmint its fair share, you are free to do with your money as you please. However, I would hope that you would reconsider your benefactors. Not really my place to say however.
#80………..Blind Mule, you magnificent bastard !
Now there’s “community activism” that works. If D’ohbama had tried those tactics instead of shaking down businesses, he might have cleaned up Chicago.
lgm carries the identical style of bookbag that my twelve-year-old daughter carries. Contents are probably similar, too.
Thanks, I think?
I have to get my money out of these expensive programs somehow. Oh!, I should make a 3D model of him then the possibilities are endless, but I’m not sure if lgm is worth a week and a half of work.
Hot pepper wax spray worked well to keep critters from eating stuff in my yard. Shooting rabbits with a supersoaker is great fun too. Who knew that rabbits hated being wet.
To Soliel,
That particular commandment actually says “Thou shalt not murder…”
Big difference between that and any old kind of killing.
How about the New Testament where God says all the creatures of the earth are man’s to eat?
Just in case that hot pepper wax spray fails ya after a hard rain, rambler:
Rabbit On a Stick
marinade
4lb deboned cottontail rabbit, cut into small cubes
4tbl spoons olive oil
5cloves garlic minced
2tbl spoons rosemary
3tbl spoons parmesan cheese
salt and pepper
Place rabbit cubes in combined marinade and let marinade over night.
Place rabbit on skewers {small portions} roll skewers in flour then in egg then in seasoned bread crumbs.
Heat a cast iron frying pan with oil and brown skewers in oil place browned skewers in roasting pan standing vertical and roast at 400 degrees for 40 minutes, enjoy! Serve with a nice Niagara merlot.
/unrepentant carnivore
IR
Sounds really great… now I’d follow that up with a nice pint o’ Guinness and a snit of Jameson…..Slainte!
On June 6th, 2008 at 6:42 pm, SHoward said:
I’m actually thinking of all the verses that cover ritual slaughter.
Jesus was a meat-eater, too.
If its’ good enough for Him, then its’ good enough for me.
Thanks Irish Rose. I spy some plump rabbits which will do just fine in your recipe.
I once used one of those white powder critter repellents, which looked terrible and didn’t work. My neighbor asked me what the white powder was and I told him it was cocaine.
Soliel
I respect your heartfelt feelings on animals. I too am a conservationist. But I am also a lifelong hunter. It has nothing to do with a “bloodlust” and everything to do with our genetic makeup at the top of the foodchain and the preservation of wildlife in its natural habitat.
I grew up hunting and fishing. My father and grandfathers did as well. And up until very recent times, hunting and fishing were necessary to supplement what went on the table.
If you eat any kind of meat or fish, someone else has made the kill for you, and probably in a much less humane way that most hunters do. If you wear leather of any kind, fur or other apparel made of animal skin, someone else has killed so that you can benefit from the animal.
It may surprise you that most hunters today are avid conservationists, much in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt. And hunting plays a vital part in managing the ecosystems and wildlife populatins. If a species is even getting close to becoming threatened, hunting is either severely curtailed or stopped altogether for as many seasons as it takes.
The fees that hunters pay for licenses and permits, unlike taxes, go directly to wildlife conservation and management. Hunting itself is part of that management plkan, culling overpopulated species to preserve the proper balance between populations, genetic pools and food supplies. There is no more heartbreaking sight than to go into the Rockies where hunting has been banned after a severe winter. The dead bodies of deer, elk and other species litter the countryside. These animals were too weak from over competition for food to make it through the winter.
This is not just in the US but all over the world. Africa in particular has been the biggest beneficiary of wildlife regeneration resulting from, of all things, hunting. In places like Africa, animals compete directly with humans for space and food. Africa’s human population has boomed over the last 100 years, and that has, until recently had a devastating imoact on wildlife populations.
When people and animals compete, the animals always lose. What hunting has done is turned the animals into a renewable resource for people. The local populations directly benefit from the hunting and license fees, and the kills go to feed a local population literally dying from lack of protein.
Very rigid quotas are set and followed. As a result, countries that have embraced hunting have witnessed a literal explosion in species once considered to be threatened. Countries that countinue to ban hunting, like Kenya, continue to see serious declines in those polulations. The populations have no benefit to letting the game live. Plus, there is no budget for anti poaching efforts which in other countries are funded by the hunting industry.
As hunters, we have an almost spiritual respect for the wildlife we take. We take not more than we need or can use. And we strive to leave this world in a better condition than we found, so our children, grandchildren and heirs can enjoy what we have seen and experienced.
Your remarks on a hunters motives as some kind of kill for thrill is unfortunately all too common. It is the mantra of those who react, rather than take the time to listen. I hope that when you step back and take a closer look at the issue, you will find that your stereotype is one that is not warranted.
And people going around smashing animals with sledgehammers is in no way related to the mentality of a hunter. You need to be smarter than the animals to stay a step ahead of them. In the cases cited in the article, it appears that we are either dealing with the mensa of the animal world, or these folks are not too bright.
Soliel
That’s $95 for the guy in the NY Times report…
and not counting the $20 or $25 for me either.. better round that up to $30 just to be sure..
I absolutely hate all rodents including squirrels but, even for them, I’d rather catch and release them, (near the house of a liberal whenever possible), than kill them. I used to hunt but that’s totally different than smashing unsuspecting critters in your back yard. BTW, human male urine deters many wild animals from frequenting your property; especially deer.
I say use the Obama approach: appease the animals by giving them small parts of your land or garden, or perhaps just feed them constantly so they won’t eat your garden.
Of course, this will offset the reasons you grew the garden in the first place.
Could someone please call in Master Negotiator Obama to take care of the flying crap machine, I mean Canadian geese problem? I am pretty sure they are far from endangered anymore.
Even plants have their nasty little surprises. I have spent most of the afternoon washing and depitting cherries, and discovered that about 1% have maggots in them. I ended up having to go back through my first half-gallon looking for them, once I figured out what those black spots on the pit meant. Half a gallon on cherries is a lot of cherries!
I remember that when I was in college, someone let about fifty chickens loose in one of the men’s dorms. The students woke and decided to deal with the problem by wringing all their necks. Since they were a bunch of morons, they couldn’t even kill the chickens properly, and down at the Grounds shop we discovered that we had about 20-25 injured chickens to deal with. I think that that the administration wanted us to kill and bury them, as the Board was due that weekend, but my boss didn’t want to do so - we improvised a hutch and kept them on the premises for a week while seraching for the owner. When no one came to claim them, we gave the 10-15 survivors to one of the locals.
The reason why I relate this little story is because my boss was a dedicated hunter who grew up on a farm, and consequently more inclined to treat animals responsibly. Most hunters I have talked to or read would do the same, I think.
sarc/ Don’t you see that the story of the artist is a metaphor for our involvement in Iraq? We give them an ultimatum in a language they can’t understand based upon values that are foreign to them. Then, we invade their sovereign territory and mercilessly slaughter them with a terrible psychological cost to the warriors involved (Woodchuck Johnny). /sarc
Sorry, I just had to say something since I haven’t seen lgm or sausage on this thread.
Seriously, the mental instability of considering spoken communication fair warning to woodchucks…
Rose, do you have a blog where you post these recipes?
Jim M. #156 - thank you for dispelling the negative propaganda about hunters. What you said is true.
I was appalled when I read about the woman who is drowning the squirrels. Drowning is a terribly inhumane way to get rid of anything. How she could have thought otherwise is beyond me.
And then the lady shooting the snakes - LOL! These are not snakes that pose any threat to her at all. She is getting rid of critters that are possibly her garden’s best friend.