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.
