[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
how the fuck do you live harmoniously with predators?
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You can’t. Two competing predator species can’t share the same habitat without wanting to kill each other on sight. Which is why the wolves try to kill as many of us as they can.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
how the fuck do you live harmoniously with predators?
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You can’t. Two competing predator species can’t share the same habitat without wanting to kill each other on sight. Which is why the wolves try to kill as many of us as they can. [/quote]
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Which bottle did you open tonight?[/quote]
Since you ask…
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
how the fuck do you live harmoniously with predators?
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You can’t. Two competing predator species can’t share the same habitat without wanting to kill each other on sight. Which is why the wolves try to kill as many of us as they can. [/quote]
Which bottle did you open tonight?[/quote]
Since you ask…[/quote]
Ahhhh…“frontier whiskey.” Apropos.
I like the Bulleit too. Prefer their rye but the bourbon is just fine.
My bottle is empty though so I’m making do with the Booker’s 120 proof and listening to Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” over and over again.[/quote]
Huh. And now I see my error. It was in fact Ninety-Five, and not the bourbon, which I was imbibing. Delightfully smooth. Much better than cognac.
…and only twenty dollars a bottle at Trader Joe’s.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
My bottle is empty though so I’m making do with the Booker’s 120 proof and listening to Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” over and over again.[/quote]
When you replenish your supply of rye, you must drink it to the accompaniment of this song, which will be apropos on many levels.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
…i would say avoid areas where those animals live…
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LOL
Face palm
Eye roll
How do I do that? We both live in the exact same area.
So one of us need to do that there “avoiding.” Should I be the one? Should I burn my house down, leave, and move to town?
What if the wolf shows up in town? Should we burn the town down, leave, and move to your town?
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that is impressively stupid. profX and darkninja have a rival for most insanely fucking retarded poster on here.
I do agree with your idea of burning your house down tho, please be locked inside before starting the fire.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
…i would say avoid areas where those animals live…
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LOL
Face palm
Eye roll
How do I do that? We both live in the exact same area.
So one of us need to do that there “avoiding.” Should I be the one? Should I burn my house down, leave, and move to town?
What if the wolf shows up in town? Should we burn the town down, leave, and move to your town?
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that is impressively stupid. profX and darkninja have a rival for most insanely fucking retarded poster on here.
I do agree with your idea of burning your house down tho, please be locked inside before starting the fire.
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Woah.
Bring a way to protect yourself if you’re going into those areas. I’d be willing to bet a wolf blasted with a .308 would never approach anything resembling humanity ever again.
That is how you handle problem predators. Kill the problems then future generations learn to stay the hell away.
I’m a “city slicker” by choice who hunts and fishes on a regular basis.
I have absolutely zero desire to live in bofuck anywhere.
That said, I agree with points made on both ends of the argument spectrum here.
So far, the argument seems to be killing all wolves indiscriminately or selectively killing them as they are a threat to livestock and homestead.
If a man were robbing my business, I’d shoot him. If a man were threatening my home or the people in it, I’d shoot him too. But he’d have to be there, at my business or home. I would see a guy that looked threatening downtown, follow him home and kill him because he looked like he could potentially be a threat some day.
Livestock is a business product, and a wolf is essentially robbing the owner. I’d kill that wolf. If a wolf were encroaching in my yard where kids play, and wasn’t just passing through, I’d shoot him.
I would not go on a wolf eradicating expedition, jumping in to their territory to find and eradicate them willy nilly, however, anymore that I’d grab a couple AR-15’s and go on a shooting rampage in a movie theater.
I do appreciate nature, without living under a tree 24/7, including predators and appreciate conservation efforts. Why? Because I like nature. I respect it for what it is because I just do.
There is no objective, logical reasoning around a singular reason why, anymore than trying to explain the feeling of being on a hunt, preparing, tracking, waiting patiently and finally the kill. That feeling, and all hunters know it, is impossible to explain without sounding like a psycho to anti-hunting people projecting who knows what on to their interpretations of the story.
The feeling is feral, it is free, it is powerful and it is ancient. So is a general appreciation for nature and it’s creatures.
If that is a city slicker, or my new favorite term “cidiot”, way of thinking, so be it. It’s my world too, and where private property lines end and public land begins, you’re on my property. Leave my wolves alone unless they are actually in your realm, threatening your shit, in which case, open fire.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Wolf attack, kill and eat Alaska jogger: hunt planned by plane and on foot for deadly pack
I really enjoyed this pearl of wisdom [cough]:
"To me, it’s a pretty bogus issue although I know it strikes at the heart strings of a lot of people who want to be macho and go out there and kill animals,’ said John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, told the KTVA television channel.’
“Shooting at wolves will make them more desperate, he predicted. ‘They become far more likely to go into towns, to frequent trails, to become problem wolves,’ he said.”
Oh boy.[/quote]
There’s a guy who sounds like he couldn’t tell which is the business end of a gun.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
It’s legal in NM to take in wolves as pets. [/quote]
My daughter had a half wolf/half husky that ran away from my home on Thanksgiving Day a few years ago. I suspect it was shot.[/quote]
A friend of mine and her fiance have two half wolf/ half husky hybrids that are extremely well trained and well behaved. I love those dogs.
I hope that I can get one myself some day.
[quote]cwill1973 wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Wolf attack, kill and eat Alaska jogger: hunt planned by plane and on foot for deadly pack
I really enjoyed this pearl of wisdom [cough]:
"To me, it’s a pretty bogus issue although I know it strikes at the heart strings of a lot of people who want to be macho and go out there and kill animals,’ said John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, told the KTVA television channel.’
“Shooting at wolves will make them more desperate, he predicted. ‘They become far more likely to go into towns, to frequent trails, to become problem wolves,’ he said.”
Oh boy.[/quote]
There’s a guy who sounds like he couldn’t tell which is the business end of a gun.
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Why do people like this have to be running conservation groups? Why not, oh I don’t know, somebody with some common sense and hunting background?