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Luvmyzoocrew

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Well i am an animal lover who lives with a hunter :in tears:. Tommorrow he is going small game hunting, and if you dont know small game includes squirrel and rabbits :pray::sad:. I am really sad about that, i love watching the wild cotton tails, watching them binkie and just being bunnies, and i am sad that he is going to go out and possibly kill one,i could just cry :nope::bawl:. i feel like :run:and getting them all so that he cant get any. This is hard my husband knows how i feel and respects that i feel that way but that is not going to stop him, and i try to understand that , that is what he feels and that i have to respect that. :banghead he doesnt try to change me and i dont try to change him. i just got ok with him hunting deer, i will not let him trophy hunt, what he hunts he eats, but it doesnt make it any better. I will just die if he brings a bunny home here.:dunno please pray that he doesnt get anything, every year when he goes deer hunting i pray that he doesnt catch anything,lol, evil but i am ok with him not getting a deer. I am on the fence the animal loving side doesnt want anything to be hurt, or killed for a sport or for fun, but then the practical side of me sees the need to "thin" out the deer population. But the practical side of me also sees that we might not have to thin out the herds if we didnt keep building on their land and pushing them out . :innocent/:devil well i am off to be sad.



Anyone else have someone that hunts and makes them sad too?
 
Try to imagine the horrible death at the claws of a predator, and being taken by a hunter doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

There is also the benefit of a healthy, lean meal on the table.

Personally, I don't prefer to eat game, but my husband and son do occasionally hunt deer.



Pam
 
My husband goes deer/elk hunting in Colorado for two weeks every year. We have a full-size freezer out in the garage chock full of meat. I don't eat meat, so he has a lot of eating to do.

I don't really mind him hunting and I even cook his meat for him. It does bother me when he makes a snide remark about me not eating meat. I never put down people who enjoy their meat.
 
most of my family hunts... and they all no how i feel... and they all give me a hard time about it... I do not eat the stuff they kill...

a long long time ago i was in emt school and my olde4r cousin came running and got me saying their was someone needing cpr... so i ran outside to help and on the back of his truck there was a deer that he shot and i started crying... that was the cruelest thing he has ever done to me....
 
My husband hunts, but only deer. I'm ok with that because they're seriously overpopulated and are getting nasty diseases like CWD because of it. And deer taste good. He doesn't hunt birds or small animals. I don't know if he could shoot a rabbit any more. He was really upset one day because he had been mowing the lawn at the farm and accidently hit a baby rabbit... and the poor thing was still alive, dying slowly. He had to put it out of it's misery and he was so upset about the pain he had caused it. He was brought up with hunting and with butchering farm animals and was always taught to do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. But I don't know if he could hurt rabbits any more.
 
We should also note that hunters are the primary source of funding for conservation of our national wildlife. State hunting and fishing licenses generate over 1 billion dollars per year. Excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment generates over $600 million annually. Duck stamps bring in over $24 in federal funds, helping to preserve over 5 million acres for migratory birds.

Quotes from National Geographic:

"The irony is that many species might not survive at all were it not for hunters trying to kill them. The nation's 12.5 million hunters have become essential partners in wildlife management."

"It's the hunters who keep most of these species going. They put in the money, and they put in the hours. Hunters really care about what happens."

"As we've become more urbanized, we've lost this connection with the natural world. The further away we get from the wild, the less we understand it."

Pam
 
i sometimes think that imagine if no one hunted, there are already tons of dears along the sides of the road could you imagine how many more would be getting hit by cars.



i am happy to report though that no bunny was killed, but a quail was :(. of course it is funny to come in and show me and tell me how pretty it is, to which i replied " yeah, i sure he was even more pretty when he was alive"
 

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