I hate deer porn

Jeffrey

You'd have to be from Michigan to understand this probably. But we have so many deer they starve and get in the roads. I understand hunting them is a lesser evil than factory farming also. And many families count on them as a source of meat to eat.

But I hate to see photos of the proud shooter with a dead deer all limp and dead looking and then everyone on facebook congratulates them. It would be a fun prank to photoshop a dead dog all dead looking with myself with a gun and a grin and post on facebook.

karasti

I personally like the photos that float around of animals driving cars with hunters bodies on the roofs, lol. I live in MN, our deer population is over a million on a regular basis, and a whole lot of them live in our neck of the woods. But I see wolves chase down deer and moose on the lakes in the winter and take them down, and that's no more easy to watch, even though it's more necessary (for most.) Here, I do know a lot of people who hunt and live off what they hunt year round, so that does help for me to remember. When my dad was laid off, we lived off what he was able to hunt and trap. It does have it's place. However, trophy hunting disgusts me. Worse yet for me are the photos of young children (talking kids who are 9, 10 years old) sitting next to the animal they killed, because they don't look happy about it at all and you know they do it to make their parents proud, and I find that very sad.

lobster

I saw on another forum someone wanted to stop a deer cull in a local London park. She was not offering to fund their transport to a deer sanctuary, or offer a realistic solution to the finite resources of a wolf and predator free environment. Just did not want bambi killed.

karasti

A lot of people lack the understanding of ecology and other sciences about why such things need to be regulated. However, much of it is human selfishness, which is sad. Last year, the gray wolf was removed from the endangered list and this fall/winter MN is having it's first wolf hunt in 40 years. But it is not because the population is too high. It's just too high for the hunter's liking. So the DNR caved to the hunter's wishes because more wolves=fewer deer so the hunters get mad they didn't get a deer and want to kill the wolf as a result. Nevermind that nature is best regulating herself, and that the wolves do the job of controlling the deer and beaver populations. That initially is why hunting was allowed-to control populations. But when nature does the job too well, humans get angry and want to control even more. Sad.

Linc

I will just leave this here.

karasti

LOL @Lincoln this took place in Fargo, and i used to live there. They did a follow up with this lady, and she still didn't see how she was wrong! You can't make stuff up sometimes, lol. I lived in the woods most of my life and never hit a deer with my car. Moved to Fargo, hit a deer on an interstate exit ramp. Go figure. Thankfully, she survived, she was running from a buck in rut, poor girl, lol.

DaltheJigsaw

Jeffrey said:

You'd have to be from Michigan to understand this probably. But we have so many deer they starve and get in the roads. I understand hunting them is a lesser evil than factory farming also. And many families count on them as a source of meat to eat.

But I hate to see photos of the proud shooter with a dead deer all limp and dead looking and then everyone on facebook congratulates them. It would be a fun prank to photoshop a dead dog all dead looking with myself with a gun and a grin and post on facebook.

Me too! Even though I understand some need to hunt in order to survive, but if you live in an area that does not require it, please stop...I also don't understand the whole sport of hunting? I guess it goes back to our ancestors, but we are evolving, or... Perhaps, not..

Bunks

I held off opening this discussion for a while as I wasn't sure I wanted to read it

We have similar problems with kangaroos down here. Especially at dusk. The big ones can do a looooooot of damage to a car. My co-worker hit one front on once on his motorbike doing 100km/h and didn't even come off!! Killed the roo though. Bloody lucky boy...

footiam

I would love to keep the deer as pet. Maybe there ought to be a campaign to encourage the people to keep the deer as pets. Not just keep the earth green!

karasti

oh my, they are cute but I'd never want a deer as a pet. I'm more afraid of running across a deer or moose in rut than I am running across a wolf or bear in the woods (all of which I run into on a regular basis). I know more people who have been attacked by deer than bears or wolves. They can be really mean, actually. When my mom used to feed them, the big deer push the babies away from the food and fight with them so they can get their fill before anyone else. They aren't nearly as peaceful as you'd think. Pet? Goodness no.

DairyLama

Jeffrey said:

But I hate to see photos of the proud shooter with a dead deer all limp and dead looking and then everyone on facebook congratulates them.

Yes, you'd think they'd be ashamed.

zombiegirl

Yeah, this sort of stuff is on my facebook feed as well. But you know, I do live in MI...

I ignore it because saying something won't do anything but to further estrange myself from certain friends and family as that crazy vegetarian, lol. But on the plus side, as far as my family goes at least, I do know that it's not just glory kills... they do use the meat. I honestly feel better about people hunting and killing their own meat than supporting the meat industry. At least the animals lived their lives out in the wild.

I don't hunt, obviously, so I don't get the whole "pride in what you've killed" thing. I wonder if it means that the hunters have become so estranged from the act of killing that they don't even see it for what it is anymore. I know hunters who don't feel this way, who treat killing an animal in a very serious way. I'm sure there's even hunters who feel the same way about photos of their kills.

how

In poor taste but was very funny.

An American show shot in a town where dead deer tied to the hood of a parked car on the main street won't normally get a second glance. The show had hooked up some robotics and a small speaker so the deer would raise up its head and look like it could talk. Every two or three minutes they would activate it to say something like."hey buddy, I think there's been some mistake, can ya loosen one of these ropes.

The reactions from the pedestrians walking by was priceless.

Vastmind

Disclaimer: I'm not from Michigan.

Umm....Killing something and then bragging/showing
it off and being proud of it kinda put me in the mind
of horror movies....not porn movies. haha