Anyone here hunt?

Posted by: winkyincanada on 16 November 2013

http://www.smh.com.au/world/li...-20131116-2xnum.html

This $h!+ makes me lose my $h!+. Although all large wild cats will almost certainly be extinct in a few decades anyway, this just makes me apoplectic. The mental state of this cowardly twit (and all her viewers and trpohy hunting colleagues) causes me to despair for the future of all of us. In what sane universe is this insane and stupid f%$#w!t even allowed to exist?

Posted on: 20 November 2013 by Kevin-W

Originally Posted by winkyincanada:

Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

.....who has had to shut down her website, Twitter feed and FB page....

Oh. My. God. How will she survive in the modern world without these things? The cruelty of it all. I feel not one iota of sympathy for this stupid, cowardly, cruel b!+ch.

For someone like her FB, the web, social media etc would be a crucial way of communicating "Brand Bachman" - losing the ability to do that would probably hit her pocket quite hard...

Shame.

Posted on: 20 November 2013 by Kevin-W

Originally Posted by winkyincanada:

Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

One does not "allow" house cats to hunt.

Sure one does. The choice to keep a cat as a pet is to allow it to hunt. If you think the trade-off is worth it, (cat-caused dead animals Vs cat companionship) then you'll keep a cat. If you don't think it worth it, then you won't keep a cat. Cats can't help themselves, but we get to make the choices.

Disclaimer: I don't keep a cat. One reason is the whole hunting thing.

Cats, whether they are kept by nice old spinsters or not, hunt. Cats would still hunt cute little voles and shrews regardless of whether humans had domesticated them or not. "Ownership" of a cat and its predeliction to go out and kill things are not linked, and they are certainly not dependent on each other.

Of course you could keep a cat indoors all the time but that seems a bit cruel - not to mention expensive (cat litter's not cheap you know). I bet you wouldn't advocate doing the same to a dog. In any case, keeping a cat indoors does not really alter its fundamental nature (at least in the short and medium terms) as a predator. It's a killer. Nature, red in tooth and claw and all that.

Unless you're advocating bumping off all cats to prevent any more frogs and birds being killed. Which is almost as silly as your suggestion that there is a moral equivalence between keeping a cat and shooting lions and other large animals for sport.