Am I Evil?

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Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Have a look at this Carl this is what most working class people in the UK hunt with Terriers Lurchers and ferrets, a Lurcher is a cross between a greyhound and either a working collie or a Bedlington or Whippet, and when they go fox hunting they just leave the ferrets behind.

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I'm unsure what to say. One, I'm pretty sure those are rabbits, not foxes, second, I'm not sure if it's cruel or just what dogs and rabbits get up to when they're together. If it's WORK hunting rabbits to save the crops that's one thing, but if it's SPORT I'd rather I didn't kill or hurt an animal to entertain myself, these days. I've grown up. I'm not condemning those who do, it's just not my cup of tea ('scuse the pun; why is it that English people drink tea doing ANYTHING?, it's a wonder they don't drink tea while having sex, or do they?).

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm unsure what to say. One, I'm pretty sure those are rabbits, not foxes, second, I'm not sure if it's cruel or just what dogs and rabbits get up to when they're together. If it's WORK hunting rabbits to save the crops that's one thing, but if it's SPORT I'd rather I didn't kill or hurt an animal to entertain myself, these days. I've grown up. I'm not condemning those who do, it's just not my cup of tea ('scuse the pun; why is it that English people drink tea doing ANYTHING?, it's a wonder they don't drink tea while having sex, or do they?).

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The Tea thing is very funny Carl as I never ever drink coffe and love my tea, but getting back to the sex bit and drinking tea, well here's a funny thing we in Wales have a slang word for the female genitalia we call it a teabag.:D And as for the rabbits they are all sold or eaten by the hunters rabbit meat is extremely low in cholesterol, and as for foxes especially hill foxes they kill early newborn lambs as well as the farmers chickens ducks and geese.

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Originally Posted by celticcrusader

The Tea thing is very funny Carl as I never ever drink coffe and love my tea, but getting back to the sex bit and drinking tea, well here's a funny thing we in Wales have a slang word for the female genitalia we call it a teabag.:D And as for the rabbits they are all sold or eaten by the hunters rabbit meat is extremely low in cholesterol, and as for foxes especially hill foxes they kill early newborn lambs as well as the farmers chickens ducks and geese.

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I'm so glad I'm being funny, and not annoying, Jamie! I'd love to eat rabbit but SWMBO doesn't allow it, she only eats 'non cute' animals, i.e. cows and chickens...

Rabbits is good eatin'. I've hunted rabbits over in W.A, both for myself, and for dog food. I don't have a problem with hunting anything that is feral game. Hunting is all about conservation and/or food to me.


Mick

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Originally Posted by MickR

Rabbits is good eatin'. I've hunted rabbits over in W.A, both for myself, and for dog food. I don't have a problem with hunting anything that is feral game. Hunting is all about conservation and/or food to me.

Mick

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Well yeah. Not for fun. I'm not saying it's not FULFILLING, but I wouldn't want to just go and kill things for fun, that seems odd to me, I LOVE animals. I get all teary when I see a dead animal on the road. And koalas. Have you ever seen a dead koala on the road? They look just like people, all tragic and stuff, with their little arms thrown up over their little foreheads...You feel like painting a yellow line around them...

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm unsure what to say. One, I'm pretty sure those are rabbits, not foxes, second, I'm not sure if it's cruel or just what dogs and rabbits get up to when they're together. If it's WORK hunting rabbits to save the crops that's one thing, but if it's SPORT I'd rather I didn't kill or hurt an animal to entertain myself, these days. I've grown up. I'm not condemning those who do, it's just not my cup of tea ('scuse the pun; why is it that English people drink tea doing ANYTHING?, it's a wonder they don't drink tea while having sex, or do they?).

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I think a good shot with a rifle is a more humane way of dealing with pests than running them to exhaustion then ripping them to pieces. And with regards to the tea question, you need to use a travel style cup with a lid, and even better if it has a sippy straw.
I wasn't offended by your commments on hunting, though it may have sounded that way.

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm so glad I'm being funny, and not annoying, Jamie! I'd love to eat rabbit but SWMBO doesn't allow it, she only eats 'non cute' animals, i.e. cows and chickens...

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My very carnivorous sister in law won't eat baby animals, but pretty much anything else is fair game.

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Well yeah. Not for fun. I'm not saying it's not FULFILLING, but I wouldn't want to just go and kill things for fun, that seems odd to me, I LOVE animals. I get all teary when I see a dead animal on the road. And koalas. Have you ever seen a dead koala on the road? They look just like people, all tragic and stuff, with their little arms thrown up over their little foreheads...You feel like painting a yellow line around them...

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Speaking of road kill, did you read about that German guy who spent 17 years in the bush, living off road kill? No its not got a punchline, its true.

Never, except in movies, have they ever painted lines around the 'victims'. As for Koalas we used to trap them, and boy did they kick up a stick about being trapped too. We never harmed them, beside the initial trauma of being noosed out of a tree and thrown in the lockup. No, we had them all checked over by a Vet before releasing them back onto the property from whence they came.

As for killing animals, I can't say I haven't derived pleasure from it. I have. Especially when it has been a challenge to make the kill. I have had some extremely satisfying hunts, have taken shots that would have been hard if not impossible for someone other than expert marksmen, and even then my shots relied on speed and correctly estimating the fall of the shot at extreme ranges for the firearm in use. So some experts may have been challenged to make the shot themselves anyway.

Keep in mind, I had the fat man hoisted over the rail into the path of an oncoming train without much of a second thought though..:)


Mick

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Originally Posted by MickR

Rabbits is good eatin'. I've hunted rabbits over in W.A, both for myself, and for dog food. I don't have a problem with hunting anything that is feral game. Hunting is all about conservation and/or food to me.


Mick

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Much as I don't really like the idea of hunting particularly, provided the meat is put to use and the animal is killed quickly and as painlessly as possible then it is ok as far as I can see.