They should get a truck and driver like us - Buddy Love
(I want out - Shanti)
Friday, July 31, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
US Dentist Kills Treasured Lion in Africa
http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/hunter-who-killed-cecil-the-famous-african-lion-identified-as-minnesota-dentist/#geLjCXAZuECWfFCO.97
A lot of people have come out against what this "hunter" did and I agree. I understand other types of hunters and meat eaters suggesting where to draw the line but this seems pretty damn obvious to me.
He has gotten in trouble before for his kills. He is on REPEAT. He broke the law.
He is a "healer" yet spent $55K to kill something rare, revered, and PROTECTED. Read this article. Read others (upset balance of the pride, hurt the local tribe, etc). Bad all the way around. The locals do not get much of the money at all (land owners do) from these trophy kills. Locals make more showing us the rare animals than killing the rest of them off. We are killing the "trophy" animals extinct in the name of KERCHING, money money, show-off, fame, and EGO.
Biggest 2 things that stand out to me:
He said he didn't know it had an GPS collar on. Really? You brag about being able to hit a playing cart at 100 yards with a bow, yet with binoculars and bait, with a human friendly lion you did not see its GPS collar nor did your two guides for pay ? BULLSHIT. How about when you beheaded it and skinned it? Where you able to see it then Walter? My oh my but how did you ever find a cavity in your patients' teeth?
Then it was badly wounded by your arrow. Cecil did not die right away. Estimates are 40 hours of time went by before you tracked it down and shot it to death (a relief at that point). So it was a slow, torturous, heartless kill. Sad, sick and wrong. And no, I don't think that is right for any animal.
People do kill for meat, kill to survive, but we are getting better with generations in how we treat animals. What GOOD could have come from your $55K versus your illegal killing spree(s). Yuck. You are grinning and smiling like you really accomplished something. Anyone with money could have killed that lion but they didn't. So congratulations on your money and now the ramifications of not caring, not showing concern for a valued life. I hope you do face serious charges because you are full of sh%& on this one dude. You knew it was wrong. You baited it, drew it out of a protected park and shot it with a GPS collar on. And you damn well know Lions are a protected, endangered species. That is precisely WHY you had to pay so much.
I think it is a psychopath (diminished empathy and remorse) that shows no regard for life. You actually draw pleasure from it. Not my kinda of dentist or anything else. I am just sad because it is a rich American that did this TO and IN another country. Gives us all a bad name. So that is why this is different folks. It is like luring a rescued outdoor dog out of its yard, with a bone, shooting it with its collar on, then smiling over its dead body in pictures - knowing they are only a few of these left anywhere in the world. We see people do that and we call it sick. Just disgusting and I do hope he pays restitution for this, makes it right to those people and the lion pride.
A lot of people have come out against what this "hunter" did and I agree. I understand other types of hunters and meat eaters suggesting where to draw the line but this seems pretty damn obvious to me.
He has gotten in trouble before for his kills. He is on REPEAT. He broke the law.
He is a "healer" yet spent $55K to kill something rare, revered, and PROTECTED. Read this article. Read others (upset balance of the pride, hurt the local tribe, etc). Bad all the way around. The locals do not get much of the money at all (land owners do) from these trophy kills. Locals make more showing us the rare animals than killing the rest of them off. We are killing the "trophy" animals extinct in the name of KERCHING, money money, show-off, fame, and EGO.
Biggest 2 things that stand out to me:
He said he didn't know it had an GPS collar on. Really? You brag about being able to hit a playing cart at 100 yards with a bow, yet with binoculars and bait, with a human friendly lion you did not see its GPS collar nor did your two guides for pay ? BULLSHIT. How about when you beheaded it and skinned it? Where you able to see it then Walter? My oh my but how did you ever find a cavity in your patients' teeth?
Then it was badly wounded by your arrow. Cecil did not die right away. Estimates are 40 hours of time went by before you tracked it down and shot it to death (a relief at that point). So it was a slow, torturous, heartless kill. Sad, sick and wrong. And no, I don't think that is right for any animal.
People do kill for meat, kill to survive, but we are getting better with generations in how we treat animals. What GOOD could have come from your $55K versus your illegal killing spree(s). Yuck. You are grinning and smiling like you really accomplished something. Anyone with money could have killed that lion but they didn't. So congratulations on your money and now the ramifications of not caring, not showing concern for a valued life. I hope you do face serious charges because you are full of sh%& on this one dude. You knew it was wrong. You baited it, drew it out of a protected park and shot it with a GPS collar on. And you damn well know Lions are a protected, endangered species. That is precisely WHY you had to pay so much.
I think it is a psychopath (diminished empathy and remorse) that shows no regard for life. You actually draw pleasure from it. Not my kinda of dentist or anything else. I am just sad because it is a rich American that did this TO and IN another country. Gives us all a bad name. So that is why this is different folks. It is like luring a rescued outdoor dog out of its yard, with a bone, shooting it with its collar on, then smiling over its dead body in pictures - knowing they are only a few of these left anywhere in the world. We see people do that and we call it sick. Just disgusting and I do hope he pays restitution for this, makes it right to those people and the lion pride.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Yes, Karla. Coyotes DO bark and now I know.
Today I did my trail run in NC around 10 am. I run this trail often and it is pretty deserted and remote. My little dog Shanti always runs with me (off leash when we are alone) since she loves to run but she always seems spooked as the trail gets deeper into the woods and further from the parking lot.
Today about 1 mile in, I heard a dog bark/howl near us over my earphones. I knew it was close but I could not see it in the thick brush. Shanti was a bit scared yet intrigued. It kept getting closer and closer and then popped onto the trail about 30 yards behind us. And it stopped. Just stared at her and she stared back with her lowered stance, tail up. And it was not a dog. It was a Coyote. And they were having a stand off because my Shanti "don't take no shit". Like EVER.
We have never had any issues in the past so I kept running into the woods and got Shanti to follow me closely. The Coyote followed barking the entire time at us. I know they are afraid of people and obviously it was not rabid. At the end of the trail, we turned around and there it was on the upside of the hill from us so I did my best to get a video (please play below you will see it move about half way through). It followed us, barking all the way and crisscrossing the trail for 3 miles or about 30 minutes. You could tell it was agitated with us. However, every time I stopped, it would stop barking. Very odd. Only barked when we moved/ran.
After researching I found out that Coyotes do bark and they are territorial. Shanti was in her/his space and boy it was letting us know it. Other runners heard it and remarked- thinking it was my dog when they passed us exiting the trail. But I was the only one with a dog and I was the one it followed, deeper into the woods alone. It was not too happy. It was very vocal and always close.
We left unharmed and hopefully this Coyote will find a home a little deeper into the woods and not beside a public trail run. Some theorize that with our drought, the Coyote has increased or moved its territory in search of food and was probably also hungry to be up "this late" (11am) for a nocturnal animal. They do eat smaller dogs of course and Shanti is only 45 lbs so perhaps a target for a bigger, hungry Coyote. I let the trail owners know so they could post a sign so others can take safety precautions. All in all, a good run with my tame dog and my wild dog in pursuit. If you knew my Shanti you would understand this...."and I am not sure which was which". :)
Today about 1 mile in, I heard a dog bark/howl near us over my earphones. I knew it was close but I could not see it in the thick brush. Shanti was a bit scared yet intrigued. It kept getting closer and closer and then popped onto the trail about 30 yards behind us. And it stopped. Just stared at her and she stared back with her lowered stance, tail up. And it was not a dog. It was a Coyote. And they were having a stand off because my Shanti "don't take no shit". Like EVER.
We have never had any issues in the past so I kept running into the woods and got Shanti to follow me closely. The Coyote followed barking the entire time at us. I know they are afraid of people and obviously it was not rabid. At the end of the trail, we turned around and there it was on the upside of the hill from us so I did my best to get a video (please play below you will see it move about half way through). It followed us, barking all the way and crisscrossing the trail for 3 miles or about 30 minutes. You could tell it was agitated with us. However, every time I stopped, it would stop barking. Very odd. Only barked when we moved/ran.
After researching I found out that Coyotes do bark and they are territorial. Shanti was in her/his space and boy it was letting us know it. Other runners heard it and remarked- thinking it was my dog when they passed us exiting the trail. But I was the only one with a dog and I was the one it followed, deeper into the woods alone. It was not too happy. It was very vocal and always close.
We left unharmed and hopefully this Coyote will find a home a little deeper into the woods and not beside a public trail run. Some theorize that with our drought, the Coyote has increased or moved its territory in search of food and was probably also hungry to be up "this late" (11am) for a nocturnal animal. They do eat smaller dogs of course and Shanti is only 45 lbs so perhaps a target for a bigger, hungry Coyote. I let the trail owners know so they could post a sign so others can take safety precautions. All in all, a good run with my tame dog and my wild dog in pursuit. If you knew my Shanti you would understand this...."and I am not sure which was which". :)
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