http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/15/bc-quadra-dog-shot.html

the person who did this isn't a hunter. i know plenty of hunters who hunt deer and other game FOR FOOD, and plenty of fishers too... while they take pride in their talents, they are not barbarians, and if anything, i respect them for more than those who go to the supermarket and buy repulsive factory-farmed food.

hunting for food isn't simple or barbaric. in fact, scaring an animal taints your meat, as does butchering incorrectly, and makes it taste like crap.

you'd think all these animal rights people would like food to be caught "free-range". it's a talent to kill your own food in the bush.
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why is it so horrible for the guy to shoot the puppy ( i think it is) but if he had shot a wild rabbit, deer, etc. no one would care, and there's some who would think it was fine and even laudable?
what makes one animal different from another? One is a pet, ( cute, cuddly, innocent) while the other is a wild animal ( but still cute and innocent- but maybe not so cuddly)

one makes one animal a target and the other something to love? Are not all animals equally able to feel pain and too suffer? why sympathy for the suffering of one, but not the other?

I never understood the ":sport" of hunting, and I never will. I can understand enjoying the forest and beauty of wild spaces, but not the joy some seem to take in killing. Hunters must find some satisfaction in it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. there may be some who hunt because they don't want to eat "factory meat", but I doubt they are in the majority.

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