When we eradicated the Wolves and other Predators, we failed to comprehend that prey animal hunting is not all just about sport or about the venison.
Largely, it's about maintaining the natural checks and balances that keep our environment productive for both animals and man. We disrupted that, and we are legitimately obligated to provide alternative checks and balances preventing prey animal overpopulation and massive agricultural depredation.
It's our job, and every time the do-gooder ecofreaks impose another SJW-for-the-game-species hunting restriction, they are confounding the balances between nature and man. They are not people, they are not pets; and the less we do to upset the balances, the better.
The Eco-Bozos need to put their bleeding hearts and rose colored glasses up on the shelf, sit back, read a book; and leave the culling to the folks who actually have to do it. What the Eco-Bozos are actually doing is condemning thousands of deer, in NY State alone, to a lingering death from starvation and freezing weather each and every Winter.
They are the
true monsters in the Deers' life cycle.
Back when I lived in Central NY, just one local highway alone accounted for roughly four hundred roadkill Deer each year. It ran right in front of my home. That translated into a ton of cash in automotive and property damage, sometimes with human injury, with each and every one. You and I pay for that damage every time we pay our car insurance premium; and that doesn't even begin to deal with crop damage, Deer borne disease, and other species attrition due to habitat destruction
by the Deer.
When we cavalierly shoot a predator for (being diplomatic about it), "the spirit of the hunt"; we're not doing anyone, ourselves included, any favors. Shoot them, don't shoot them, it's up to each one of us; but I won't.
On principle; I will not shoot a Predator unless a human or pet's life is at direct risk. We need them. People who let their pets run free without supervision deserve the fate that follows; their pets don't.
We had animals like
Red Wolves (Grey Wolf cross w/ Coyote)/
Coywolves, and
Coydogs (Domestic Dog cross w/Coyote) in Central NY, and they're spreading. They were both big, some bigger than a healthy GSD. They were hazards, abominations, and some (at least the Coydogs) were the direct result of human irresponsibility, letting their dogs run loose.
We had a pack of these "somethings" charge right through us on our deer drive one morning, following a blood trail we were tracking.
Still, abominations that they are, nuisances they may be to us hunters; if they help control the deer, we need them.
Get it straight; the Coyotes aren't the problem, the city-stupid do-gooders are...
Greg
