[patriot08]

As a young girl growing up in Texas with an avid hunter father, he tried to make me his 'hunting buddy' until he saw that I would cry over each animal he shot.

I just grew up with a natural love of animals.

As an adult I have become very actively involved in efforts to preserve our endangered native Texas animals from destruction by man.

See my bio page to observe our endangered animals and what we are doing to help them: http://www.freerepublic.com/~patriot08/

So go ahead and flame, call me Liberal or anything unfair and disgusting you can think of. It matters not.

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[Darksheare]

I’m sorry, but vehicular damage and death, disease and starvation are better in your eyes than managing the population of deer and getting food as a side benefit of same?

[Darksheare]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPJp9KmmFI
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6296/20140308/deer-overpopulation-threat-forest-growth-researchers.htm

[Ditter]

I love animals too but deer are not endangered, not even close.

[JimRed]

I for one respect your feelings, though I don’t totally share them. Culling the herd is necessary to maintain a healthy population, and I prefer to see it done humanely rather than through starvation. I used to hunt a long time ago, but don’t any longer. If food or property damage became an issue I might start again. I’d just as soon watch deer as shoot them in most cases.

I don’t like to see any living creature suffer, not even mice, rats, roaches or pit bulls (or progressives). But some things do need killing.

[bgill]

Did your father put meat on the table or did he just shoot and leave it there for the buzzards?

Deer aren’t endangered.

So, you’re either vegan or you enjoy a nice steak.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I love animals, too. I really like them medium rare, with mashed taters and green beans.

[NorthMountain]

Wow. Nothing like tripling down on the ignorance. (Or is it stupidity?)

[21twelve]

“...until he saw that I would cry over each animal he shot...”

Good for you, and that you decided not to go hunting anymore.

I cried the first time I shot my first animal - a squirrel. It has been a long time since I’ve hunted, but every time I killed something it was both a sense of satisfaction and respect and a bit of sadness. Most shots were clean. A bad shot with an injured animal happened a few times by myself or friends and is tough - usually birds.