[Sca-cooks] deer and turkeys
ysabeau
ysabeau at mail.ev1.net
Tue Apr 19 07:01:31 PDT 2005
There are areas near where I live where the deer are a major
menace. This topic is hotly debated and no real solution has
presented itself. Personally, I would rather see the deer trapped
and slaughtered (hunting with guns or bows in a populated area is
just dangerous and asking for trouble, IMO)with the meat either
donated to a soup kitchen or sold to people who like venison.
I am not a hunter but most of my family is. We have a story in my
family about my Uncle Bubba (yes, his real "name") rolling over in
bed and my aunt thinking he was getting frisky until he grabbed
the gun from under the bed and shot a buck through the bedroom
window (yes, it was open). Granted, they live miles from their
nearest neighbor in South Texas.
There is a big market for venison, at least here in Texas, but
just about the only way to get it is to hunt it yourself. While I
personally don't think I could pull the trigger on a deer that
wasn't charging at me, I appreciate good venison and take my share
from the yearly harvest. If we harvested the deer and sold the
meat, then we would be able to fund the program. If people
consider hunting inhumane (I'm borderline on that one...I think
there are too many hunters that don't know what they are doing.)
then trapping them and slaughtering them humanely might be a
better, if more expensive, way to deal with it.
The new issue that is arising comes from the natural predators
that are now following the food. Coyotes are coming into the
suburbs and they are attacking people and pets. They also bring
rabies and other health issues into the neighborhoods. I had to
call animal control last year because of a rabid raccoon in my
neighborhood and I'm well within the city limits. The raccoon was
out in daylight "attacking" cars. I don't think importing natural
predators would really help the problem, it would just change it.
This is my opinion, your mileage may vary.
Ysabeau
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: CorwynWdwd at aol.com
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:45:45 EDT
>In a message dated 4/19/2005 1:26:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>StefanliRous at austin.rr.com writes:
>But some folks seem to be a bit uneasy about allowing hunting
>in the suburbs. And others didn't like the hiring of
professionals to
>trap "bambi" and ship them elsewhere. The latter is rather
expensive as
>well.
>Not to sound grumpy but....
>
>Fine, then we need to reestablish the balance, if they don't want
human
>hunters, and they don't want them captured and put elsewhere, I
suggest the
>introduction of animal predators. If coyotes haven't come into
the area yet,
>introduce them. We might also think about farming and
reintroducing wolves....
>
>My point (and I have one) is there needs to be a balance, what is
or isn't
>wanted is really irrelevant, because they will breed to the
limits of the
>available food supply and starve, dying right on these very same
people's front
>lawns. AFTER stripping all the trees and shrubs and grass in a
yard. Nature is
>often not pretty...
>
>Somebody needs to point that out to the "Bambi" contingent. Just
saying.
>
>> OTOH, I've cheerfully dropped a dime on people shooting hawks
>> or wild turkeys, and know of poachers who will do the same.
>
>What is the problem with shooting the wild turkeys? Are they
endangered
>or even rare?
>
>I thought there were still wild turkey seasons for hunters? Hawks
yea, I'd
>turn in somebody shooting a Hawk, or any other bird of prey too.
Then again, as
>I've said before, some of my relatives have hunted from the
car<G>.
>
>Corwyn
>
>There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn
well please.
>And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the
>consequences. -- P. J. O'Rourke
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