“I enjoy hunting both coyotes and foxes...”
While I fully understand the necessity to control wild animal populations, my mind is still unable to comprehend what “enjoyment” can be had from killing a living creature doing nothing other than what it has to do to survive. That sort of “enjoyment” is as foreign to me as anything liberal minds “think” or enjoy.
Said he enjoys hunting.
If you have witnessed a pack of coyotes kill your beloved pet dog you might have a different opinion.
Maybe you are reading too much into that expression. I can comfortably say I ‘enjoy’ prairie dog hunting. They are varmints that destroy grazing land and their tunnels make it hazardous for grazing cattle and horses. I also enjoy hunting big game. One clears a nuisance, the other puts meat in the freezer. Both require mastering a skill set with an appropriate firearm.
So part of the enjoyment is getting a clean kill, not maiming the animal.
Part of the enjoyment is knowing that what you are doing is wildlife ‘management’, not killing for the sake of killing. In many cases, uncontrolled herd growth will lead to starvation due to insufficient food sources.
Part of the enjoyment is the gratification of mastering a survival skill.
And part of the enjoyment is just getting into the outdoors.
“I enjoy hunting both coyotes and foxes...”
While I fully understand the necessity to control wild animal populations, my mind is still unable to comprehend what “enjoyment” can be had from killing a living creature doing nothing other than what it has to do to survive.
The sentence started: “I enjoy hunting...” Nothing was said about enjoying killing. Non hunters never get this distinction.
Ever seen a hen house after a fox has visited?
[[my mind is still unable to comprehend what “enjoyment” can be had from killing a living creature doing nothing other than what it has to do to survive. ]]
What did you have to eat today? An y meat? Those animals sat you ate were just “standing around just trying to survive too”
Are you a vegan? If so, what did those greens ever do to you to cause you to want to consume them? They were just hanging around, surviving, until some mean farmer came along and ripped them fro their roots, sent them through tunes. Tubs, spraying, etc, then into neat little bags for the veggie choppers to consume without getting their hands dirty. Plants have “feelings” too. It’s a fact.
Ranchers “enjoy” ranching too, are they monsters? Pig farmers enjoy their work and the money they get fro it
. Are fishermen monsters for catching food for others?
Varmint hunting keeps predators in balance, and yes, it is enjoyable to hunt, being outdoors, tracking animal habits, learning about their ehaviors, learning where they are at certain points, perfecting shooting skills, selling the fur making some good money. Th8e folks that hunt them don’t simply drive up to a shooting range, sit in their vehicles and start blasting at defenseless animals out their vehicle windowa. There is a lot to hunting that is very enjoyable, even if one doesn’t get a shot all season at vermin or predators. Getting a shot is just, and harvesting a predator in a culling manner to ,eep populations fro exploding and decimating the wild game industry is the payoff for all the hard enjoyable work that goes into the effort.
Hunters don’t understand your enjoyment of sitting at a computer, that uses fuel and trees, and coal etc to run the online industry, complaining about them being outdoors and enjoying being a vital part of game management
The way I see it, it takes a lot of time and practice to become a good hunter. And if a person is going to invest that much time to become a master hunter, they’d better damn well enjoy it.
Hear here! Adding my dittos. Killing for ‘enjoymrent’ is demented.