Posted on 02/09/2011 1:50:59 PM PST by Gennie
“Yes, let’s let the populations of deer, raccoons, coyotes and other pests overrun all human areas and carry disease and destruction so that no one may take enjoyment in their death.”
Yes, all of God`s creations are nothing but “pests” that are there so we can kill them for our “enjoyment,” right? You know very well the difference between killing some disease carrying rats and setting a pack of dogs on a racoon so it can be ripped apart for you enjoyment.
“That’s one weak analogy.”
A perfect analogy. Dahmer got great enjoyment out of killing helpless animals. And you see nothing wrong with killing animals just so you can get some sick kick out of it.
Irish Setters.
Just looking at them is a treat. At our previous home there was a male Irish Setter who came into our yard quite often. I would grab a leash, put it on him and walk him down the block to his home. What a handsome sweetie he was, and BIG!
I have owned a couple of them years ago - wonderful, very even-tempered dogs, and man, but they do like to run like the wind! One just loved to “point” cats to the extent that he would climb up trees to get closer to them. He wasn’t as graceful climbing down as climbing up! heh heh
JC
Our Male “Aladden” is big 130 lbs. and saddly over weight. The are a couple of clowns and very loyal. They both demand attention which the get. They have an alarm clock that rings right around 3AM that demands they go out - and they let us know!
Raccoons carry more rabies than rats do and can do far more destruction to property in less time.
I'm a big proponent of hound hunting for coyotes and coons. We have far too few doing it and it has hurt other game populations through their unchecked predation. I didn't realize FR was such fertile ground for the PETA crowd.
It’s been my experience that they are wonderful and funny characters. We have older Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and they often alert us that they must go out around 3-4:00 AM. Fortunately, we’re both insomniacs. :)
In much of the USA, coons are the PRIMARY vector for rabies nowadays.
You can also surmise that many of our members have never tried to raise chickens for eggs and fryers in a farm setting. We kept two fox terriers that were busy every night keeping the coons, possums and foxes away from our chicken coop where I grew up. It was a never-ending battle...
JC
The pooch on the right is clearly guilty.
Yep! And he was ready to bolt from the scene when I snapped the picture! Gave himself up right around dinner time!
“I didn’t realize FR was such fertile ground for the PETA crowd.”
Still don`t get it, do you? I highly doubt you ever will. Someone who believes that watching other living things suffer so they can get some kicks is beyond trying to reason with.
Yeah I get it. You're an anti-hunter, animal rightster. You anthropomorphize animals and apply a analogous morality to their treatment as you would humans.
Sport hunting, bull fighting, cock fighting, the Roman Coliseum, bear baiting, well by your reckoning there ought to have been a billion serial killers throughout history.
Yeah, I've gotten some pleasure out of another creatures pain, some of those creatures were human. We all have, you included, so you can save the holier than thou routine.
The doggie on the right looks really, really guilty. LOL
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Wow! So, you must be, like, an expert or something, right? I mean, if friends actually ask you to help get rid of coons, what more is there to possibly know? You're like, real smart, huh?
Yeah you're right... just raising them and doing soft-release back into the wild for over half-a century (50+ years) hasn't taught me anything about them. I wish I had people asking me to help them with raccoons.
Must be real cool to live in town...
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Don’t try the self-righteous preener with me. I grew up on a small, nearly self-sufficient farm waaaay out in the country, and am well aware of the destruction coons can cause to one’s livelihood. My point about living in town was that now the varmints are becoming urbanized, but still are destructive varmints that most folks can’t cope with. I live in town because that is where the jobs were and can’t wait to sell my house and get back to the country now that I’ve retired.
If you’re on the west coast, it may well be that some of those you’ve “rehabilitated” over those 50+ plus years are now trashing my neighbors’ yards and intimating their pet cats and dogs due to your “help” and meddling! Hand raising a juvenile animal for release into the wild is mostly a futile and stupid idea - makes yoe FEEL good, but is a quick death sentence to the animal, because it isn’t prepared to survive.
So YES, I still think you don’t know squat about wild coons!
JC
I knew I would be flamed for that post.
You picked one sentence about how people got rid of unwanted cats 70 years ago and you flamed me.
Of course I wouldn’t do that now, Today I would place them in a box and take them to the Animal Shelter and let them do the dirty work for me. You tell me what you would do with them.Too many people let them run wild or fill the house with them creating a health hazard or a stinking home everyone avoids.
We read every day of animal hoarders who live in crazed homes reeking of animal waste, of Animals wardens who come and gather up these animals from their waste filled environment.
The end result is still euthanasia,but today we do it the kinder, gentler way.
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