Posted on 10/23/2021 8:30:37 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I wonder if there are protective helmets for lambs?
I think it is good to have scary animals in the deep woods. I propose we only allow hunting of large predators on public lands with hand held pointed wooden sticks. And you have to eat them, there, then, in the woods.
I have a rifle that can hit a pie plate at a thousand yards. What fun is it to shoot an animal with it? It’s no fun.
When I go camping, I would rather run in to a wolf pack than a troop of entitled millennials. Come to think of it, could we have an entitled millennial season? We could kill them with pronouns and male toxicity!
Cry wolf.
Here’s a clue:
Predators are dangerous and kill,eat,destroy people and the animals we most benefit from.
I much prefer my property free of such predators ( including stupid busybodies from Peta or the government.).
Eagles eat dead animals almost exclusively. Their diet is more like a Turkey Vulture.
I can see where the judge is coming from....but it's all about the wolf population...and the fact that "wolves kill farmers sheep etc". It's in their nature.
Lift the injunction...it's a lesson in stupidity.
So do coyotes and wolves. Filthy beasts.
Not exactly true - while an eagle would never pass up a carcass, they regularly hunt live game.
This judge need to watch what a few wolves can do to dogs and livestock.
Check around and see how many people have packed up their picnic baskets to go look at the wolves.
It’s not about looking at wolves.
Good story - this behavior, while uncommon, isn’t completely unusual in ‘elderly’ animal populations. They often go towards unusual food supplies when they become incapable of their natural hunting skills.
An eagle is not a top of the line predator.
Wolves, on the other hand are a top of the line predator, in N America.
Eagles are opportunity scavengers. They will grab whatever becomes an opportunity up to about 4 to 5 pounds of weight. If there is something dead, they will feed on it, especially in winter where I have watched them feed on a dead deer carcass right alongside of Ravens and Crows.
Wolves, on the other hand, will kill and keep on killing until there is nothing left to kill. They will kill for the sake of killing also. I have also watched these animals eliminate an entire deer herd in a deer yard. 20 30 60 deer, doesnt matter. They’ll hang around until its all gone then move on.
Again, I have watched them wipe out 19 deer that were harboring on our logging job near Gibbs City Mi in one week, just for example. We counted 19 deer, by the end of the week there wasnt any. Two to three blood different spots on the logging road every day for the entire week.
Now, the deer are moving into towns to harbor away from the packs roaming around. If you want to hunt deer, you need to hunt in and around places like Iron Mountain Mi or Kingsford, or Iron River Mi. Crystal Falls, etc.
Now you tell me who has a better handle on what these critters can and will do. Some BSer or someone who has worked and lived among them.
Tell me again who has a clue.
If there are no wolves in WI, then this wouldn’t be a problem. Hunters should make the wolves ‘disappear’ and no more tax dollars will be spent on the issue.
All the more reason to seriously reduces the wolf population.
But I still harbor no love for raptors as they will take small farm animals and pets.
My observation is the city people are forever trying to regulate things they have no understanding of.
“no love for raptors as they will take small farm animals and pets.”
Yes they will if the opportunity presents itself.
But kill off all of them and your rodent population will explode.
BTW, through the forestry meetings I used to have to attend. The biologist explained that out of all the wolves they have ran DNA tests on, only one to two percent are pure/true wolf.
The rest were mixed with dogs at some point in the past.
I live in the northwoods and I am glad they stopped these idiots from killing the wolves.
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