Animal trophies feature was 'simply repulsive’
I found the pictures and story in your Feb. 22 Life section, titled “Wild Things,” simply repulsive.
Did anyone on your staff suggest that some of your readers might find images of slaughtered animals disturbing? I’m only happy that I didn’t pay a visit to the Natural Science Center to be greeted with this travesty face-to-face.
These poor creatures were referred to as “trophies.”
Trophies are typically awarded for accomplishments. So how laudable an accomplishment is lying in wait to slaughter an innocent, unknowing animal? The family who “donated” this display is doing nothing more than perpetuating a barbaric, heartless tradition of bloodshed and violence in the name of sport.
Those of us who are humane know this display is not evidence of an accomplishment, but an atrocity.
“Trophies” indeed.
Jennifer Scott
Graham
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I am not a hunter, however, I love them.
I have had crops ruined by the deer.
YOU pay more for your car insurance because of the deer.
If you elect to let the things go unchecked, you would be over run with them.
When the herd gets to large there is not enough food and the herd gets sick.
There is always another side to the story.
As far as a trophy, I much rather see a real trophy like a large deer head, than a than a kid get a participation trophy, at the end of the year.
I think a trophy should be a reward for hard work, not for showing up. How would you like it if you worked hard for your money and your neighbor sit on he porch and lived better than you ? Oh I am sorry we all ready have that plan.
I guess the NR has run out of Bush bashing letters, so they will start on the hunters.
Posted on March 3, 2009 5:52 AM
The things that get people's panties in a wad almost always means little to someone else. At least it's not another stimulus or abortion letter.
Posted on March 3, 2009 6:37 AM
To live life with such fear is tragic.
Posted on March 3, 2009 6:37 AM
Skip that page, don't read it if you find it so repulsive.
Posted on March 3, 2009 9:36 AM
Taxidermy huh? I thought those deer at my gramps house had run in through the outer wall.
Posted on March 3, 2009 10:55 AM
Dog it's not so much that the herds are so huge that nature can't support them it is that man has encroached upon all wild life to the point that they have no where to go but into fields to find food and into the road to get to cleaner water on the other side.
Posted on March 3, 2009 1:05 PM