Whitehorse Star: Jauary 23, 3008
I hope the intent wasn’t malicious

Re: wolf skull 'gift', Star letters, Jan. 21

I am writing to express my dismay at the news that a wolf skull was presented ominously by a trapper to a local animal rights activist.
I hope the trapper had no malicious intent, and was acting as an individual, not as a representative of his Renewable Resource Council and community when he made this apparently crude gesture.

I can understand the trapper’s frustration when the ethics of his line of work are repeatedly questioned in letters to the papers.
However, despite his annoyance, it would be preferable if he would respond with words, rather than with something dead.

My nine-year-old son showed perhaps similar maturity when he suggested that ‘someone should put rotting vegetables in the trapper’s mailbox.’ (Fear not; my mouldy beets will go into the compost, where they belong.)
Here are some parting words from my six-year-old daughter, who volunteered her opinion on the heritage value of wearing fur:
‘If I was a Neanderthal, I wouldn’t wear furs. I would make my clothes out of bushes.’

Rachel Westfall
Whitehorse