[Felvtalk] Hunters

[Lynda Wilson]

Unfortunately, you are so right, Natalie :(
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Natalie" <atia2 at optonline.net>
To: <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Hunters


> Actually, the deer aren't responsible for overpopulation; they are 
> "managed"
> for maximum sustained yield, for only one reason: to supply better hunting
> opportunities and revenues from hunting license fees. If they were left
> alone, their numbers would be normal, and just enough to fill the 
> biological
> carrying capacity of an area that can sustain their numbers. And, yet, you
> always hear: Isn't it kinder to kill them than to let them starve?  Then 
> why
> would they want such skinny deer?  Because they really care only about 
> that
> rack, and a few lbs of meat are irrelevant.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org
> [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Wilson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:02 AM
> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Hunters
>
> It just breaks my heart when we lived in Austin, Tx that there were so 
> many
> deer starving, they would shoot them rather than feed them. In fact, I
> worked for a CPA that would litterally climb a tree and have a pile of 
> corn
> on the ground, wait for the deer to start eating and shoot it. It made me
> sick and I certainly gave him my opinion on it. Deer are such beautiful
> animals.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorrie" <felinerescue at frontier.com>
> To: <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Hunters
>
>
>> On 09-12, dot winkler wrote:
>>>    Hysterical!   L.O.L.  I love it.  The thing is, yes, some of them 
>>> hunt
>>>    and actually use the meat - smoke it, make sausage with it (yuck!). 
>>> At
>>>    least  they  are  eating the deer.  But the thing is, the animal is 
>>> so
>>>    beautiful  a creature to behold and so delicate.   How can anyone 
>>> have
>>>    the  heart  to  kill  them?  They are graceful and grace our woods 
>>> and
>>>    lands.   To  see one in your yard is a special and breathtaking 
>>> sight.
>>>    I don't see how anyone could do it.
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________
>>
>> I could never kill a deer.  Many deer come to our yard, and they are
>> so beautiful.  Last winter some bastard shot the leg off one of them.
>> It was right at the knee and it was just dangling for weeks. Finally
>> it dropped off and thankfully it never got infected.  She still comes
>> to our house, and still keeps up with her group.  She's an amazing,
>> brave little doe and we call her "Tripod".
>>
>> Lorrie
>>
>>
>> Tripod and she
>> in
>> our yard
>>
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