Sarah Palin - Save the Wolves

Alaskaron,

Well said and right on. We are very much on the same page. (in reference to your reply on page 1).

Cheers. :-)

death is ugly, they kill for food and their kills are just as ugly, if not uglier, most of the time thier prey are eaten alive.i disagree with what someone said about bow hunters being more sportsman like. most bow kills are very ugly, i know , ive seen it many times. i hunt and i feel hunters should be allowed to use the best gun possible for a clean quick kill . in the end though, death is death, and its always ugly, but its something we all will face someday, like it or not. if wolves were endangered like they were 20 years ago then i would say stop for awhile, but if there is plenty and they are a threat to your food supply, then you gotta do what you gotta do. its called survival.

about wolves? There is no hope.

I don't know if there is a problem with Wolf attacks in Alaska but the wolves in Idaho seem to have figured out that a person or a dog/cat is much easier to kill and eat then a dear or elk. Wolf attacks are getting more prevalent every year. I don't have an opinion about hunting them for sport but if they ever come near my family I won't hesitate shooting it and disposing of the remains to prohibit being prosecuted by the EPA.

In my book, I have a hard time coming up with an organization that exemplifies the intellectual and moral decline of the west as much as PETA does. Relativism gone wild.

To equate the abortion of human life with the aerial hunting of wolves displays an equally disturbing intellectual and moral perversity.

That being said, IMO there is little "sport" in shooting a wolf from a helicopter with a thirty ought six. In fact using the term "sport" for many types of hunting is inappropriate. There's not much sport in using a 30x scope, sitting in a blind and waiting for bambi to pop out in the open. However, there are types of hunting that are truly sporting: Bow hunting, pistol hunting and hunting animals that have an inclination to tear human beings limb from limb. Bow hunters are studs. My brother was once drew a permit for javelina hunting here in Arizona. He used a pistol for his permit. I could never shoot a javelina personally, but if there is a sporting way to hunt them, using a pistol (or bow) certainly qualifies.

I don't hunt nor do I care to. I love wild animals and prefer not to hunt them unless I have to. If I had to hunt for food, I would in a heart beat. Obviously I don't think some forms of hunting are truly sport, but man do I support others right to hunt. Hunters are comrades in the fight for the second amendment.

In fact the problem I have with many of these arguments is that they are made by city slicker types who are so sentimentally delusional about nature and what it's like to actually live in the habitat where these animals reside. Use of the land for ranching and other resource uses are anathema to them.
And that's the problem I have with many of the so called animal rights folks: They want to pretend that humans are not part of the food chain, that we are somehow interlopers... Go figure. It is a form of mental masturbation of the worst kind.

I don't know if the assertions about wolves hunting for pleasure are true or not, it doesn't matter. Truth is that there is other evidence that animals kill for reasons beyond subsistence- check out some of the films of chimpanzees killing others. Maybe PETA could start a new campaign to educate these brazen chimps about their reprehensible behavior....

I believe in taking care of the creation, and being a steward of the land (Edward Abbey fan here) I believe that all creatures are God's and that untamed, un-trashed landscapes play a significant role in our spiritual, mental and societal health(subsides have been absolutely devastating in this regard).To our peril we have ignored this. However, this does not equate to equality of value nor worth between humans and animals.

Our family pet is a cat, I cherish him deeply. He once was my pet alone, now that I'm married and have a family he is the family pet. I absolutely adore him. The thought of him dying some day brings tears to my eyes. I will grieve very deeply when that day comes.

I also have two kids, their worth and value transcend our cats value in a way that surpasses my ability to articulate it.

I value and treasure both, but there is a hierarchy of value in play- to put it mildly.

My two cents.