It Makes Me Cry Every Time...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
April 29, 2008 10:12am CST
Most of the time in the Fall around here, I keep my eyes in my lap when I’m out around town. I can’t stand to see all the poor dead deer’s hanging out the back of trucks. If I happen to catch site of one by accident I end up crying over it.
A couple years ago, I was with my Mom and we pulled into McDonald’s when I looked up to order there was a dead deer looking at me from the back of the truck in front of us. I couldn’t eat a thing. Last year, while coming home from my Moms, we passed a house and I happened to glance up and the guy had a deer hanging from a tree in his front yard gutting it…I was bawling by the time I got home. Several Thanksgiving’s ago, I was standing at the sink in a house I used to live in doing dishes and glanced out the window to see the neighbor guy with little bunnies being gutted.
I know ppl hunt…I never have and probably never could…but how do you deal with seeing dead animals when it causes your heart to ache every time you see one? I am a huge animal lover and hunting is just beyond me. I can’t even catch fish b/c it hurts me to see them caught.
Do you hunt? Do you know someone who hunts? Does it bother you to see animals dead during hunting season? Do you think it’s just a sport or do you think the animals have feelings? With meat available in the stores do you think it’s necessary to hunt? What about ppl that bait animals by getting them used to being fed a certain area and then killing them off when they come to eat?
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I have hunted and I do eat the meat and it helps some family to have a hunter in the family to help on grocery bill as meat get pretty high in cost.
The only thing I hate is for the trouphy hunters that only hunt for the rack of horns to hang on their walls and leave the meat behind. Now We also have gone got that meat so it wouldnt go to waste that is just plum wasteful.
wouldnt like to bait the animalto eat in one place to kill it thats not fair at all ya have to go to the mountains and climb them to look for your deer or elk or which ever you are hunting thats hunting.
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I agree with you about the baiting, I think it is illegal in most places too - isn't it? Same with the Spotting with a bright flood light.
There is a man in our church who the rangers will call when there is a fresh kill on the road and he will process the meat before it has had a chance to go rancid. The meat in turn is usually enjoyed by many in the parish. One time he was called when a stray cow was struck down by a vehicle.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
29 Apr 08
We have "Road kill chasers" in our area, too. The ones the police call to process meat after it's been hit by a car. I've heard that one man hasn't bought meat in years, but always has some.
Spotting with a headlight and baiting are illegal in my area, too.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
Yes animals hurt, I would not eat anything that I saw killed, but remember we still eat pork and beef and lamb and chicken and turkey and so on. They are the animals you find in the grocery store that was slaughtered.
I am against any hunter who hunters just to mount a trophy on the wall, but if he is using it for food, that is the way that the food chain works, from the highest animal, human, down to the smallest insect.
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@melken (15)
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30 Apr 08
I love animals actually I have three dogs in my house and I treated them as my best friends.No days has passed without caressing them because I love them.One day they are all barking angrily I noticed that there was a cat in our backyard then all of a sudden one of my dogs jumped over the cat and started to kill the cat, poor little cat I cant help him I started to spray water to them but nothing happened they did not listen to me I cried a lot because with my very own eyes I saw them how they killed the poor little cat and the worse I myself have to bury him in our own ground and it was very thromatic to me and the scene was repeated several times.
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@Breath (1297)
• United States
30 Apr 08
I am blessed to live in an area where we have planty of deer that run and play almost in my front yard..I love deer...They are so sweet,beautiful,graceful...I could not hunt.Like you I am very soft hearted toward anaimals and yes they do have feelings...I can understand people hunt and maybe that is ok for them if they do eat the meat and don't let it waste.I have never eat rabbit or deer meat...When I go fishing I always let my fishes gio back into the water....I try to look out for aniamls bbest I can...We all share this planet and animals are a special part of my life...
@kulaskulasito (430)
• United States
30 Apr 08
You are a very sensitive person, and compassionate to top that. I really admire you. Animals aren't exactly so much different from us. They do feel pain and, inasmuch as we do, they do also have a right to life.
While hunting is part of our reasoned need to feed ourselves, it is enough that we should feel this way so that we would know how to respect the proper balance in food chain. We must feel this way to remind ourselves that we cannot take in as much as we want because we only need to take what we need. We should feel this way to have compassion on the only life-nourishing planet we woke up into and feel that it is not a an infinite source of things that can ever hope to satisfy human greed.
I admire you feel that way. It's a good start to respect what nature intended. Keep it up.
@nikkibob (12)
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30 Apr 08
hya twooey68! hope you are feeling better because you sound upset.
i do not hunt because i life in the uk where we do not have to hunt, if i ever hunted then i would feel so down low about my self, because ppl wouden't like it if it happened to them.
i think animals do have feeling and so do we, i think that some ppl who hunt might think it is a sport.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I don't hunt, now could I (unless my children were starving). Hunting doesn't bother me though in today's world because it may prolong the life of a poor animal raised in captivit to become a Micky D's hamburger.. also, since there are few wolves, the natural predater of the deer, they could overpopulate and then so many of the deer die of starvation.. I don't eat a lot of meat.. and I look forward to paradise (the original design) being restored.. where plants, fruits, and the herbs of the fields were the food of both man and animal! "The lion will" again "eat straw like the ox, and the bear will graze with the cow."
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@badkat83 (1620)
• United States
30 Apr 08
Well....Where do you think your food comes from. Every meat you eat has been killed. What does it matter if someone killed it. I am an animal lover too. My husband is a hunter. And why does he kill the deer, to fill the freezer to feed our family. I don't know why people don't understand this. This has been a way of life from a gizilion years ago. Sometimes this bothers me this whole thing about hunting, where do people think they get their food from.
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@lucy02 (5015)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I don't hunt and neither does my husband. My father didn't do much hunting either. I do have a few family members that love to deer hunt. We have alot of deer here where we live but its all posted against hunting. I love seeing the deer and hate seeing them killed myself but most of the people here (I think) eat the deer. It bothers me to see someone kill any animal just for sport.
@mummymo (23706)
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29 Apr 08
I could not stand to see those things either twoey sweets and I totally understand your feelings! I know in my ~Grandads day they hunted - but they hunted to eat not for the so called 'sport' of it! I could never ever join in a hunt and I know only one person who does! xxx
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@olivemai (4738)
• United States
29 Apr 08
My mom hit a deer one day, and she cried! I was trying to figure out what to do, when another car stopped and assured us that they would take the young-looking deer off our hands! Sometimes those deer hunters and eaters are a blessing in disguise! I think I would move if there were too many hunters in the area!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Apr 08
twoey I am so glad to find someone else who hates to see those beautiful animals killed.its just awful to see them draped over someone's truck likeso much roadkill. I just hate that. I am also an animal lover and love to see them in the wild. My dad and grandad of course hunted but I never could and I do not eat meat from those that were killed thank you very much.
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@carolluvyou (460)
• United States
30 Apr 08
well hunting is sometimes a way to survive when you do not have ant other way to get your food
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@KKKBsmom (1092)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Yes it is hard tosee them die... but when you look at like this...
this is God's way of over popluation... it is the circle... the animals eat the green... we eat the animals...It is what they are on this earth for!
Then you need to think... this might be the only food put on that table. Remember in the 1800's where did their food come from?
Just my 2 cents...
@cjsmom (1423)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I know what you mean. I don't like seeing any animals hurt or killed. There are a lot of hunter's in our area and everytime I hear a gunshot I cringe. It doesn't seem fair that we have to kill beautiful animals like this. My sister is such an animal lover that if there were one in the road she would swerve (as of course you should try not to hit it) and get into an accident purposely so as not to kill the animal. That's a bit to much in my opinion but still...
@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
29 Apr 08
where do you think the meat in the store comes from ???it is no problem killing a deer with a clean shot than the things your store bought steak goes through in this nations slaughter houses ,besides venison is much healthier its not pumped full of steroids before its killed!
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
30 Apr 08
As you no doubt know I'm very much an animal lover and it does sometimes perplex me that people will still hunt when stores do have food to buy. It's not like we're in the hunting and gathering stage of our evolutionary process thousands of years ago...I can see though if a person hunts and he/she actually does eat the meat...that is one thing...but too many hunters have a gung ho attitude and just kill for sport so they can have a stuffed deer head as a trophy...I say that cause I actually did know people like that...this woman's boyfriend was a deer hunter...never ate the meat just hunted for sport...he "proudly" gave his girlfriend the stuffed deer's head and it hung up in her living room..needless to say I didn't visit her much...it wasn't so much I felt sadness I felt for the deer although I did...but it was more that I wanted to punch the woman out cause I was so angry
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Well, I feel the same way as you ,and I don't let anybody hunt near my land. Everytime I hear the hunters getting close to my land I go out and yelled no hunting. The deers seem to know that they are safe near my house ,and one mama dear even gave birth at the back of my house one time. I love animals and I have a great deal of compassion for animals.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I do not hunt, but I grew up in a house where my dad would go out every year and kill a deer. He would do the nasty hang it up in the yard thing. It always grossed me out. Hunting is really big around where I live now. McDonald's even opens up early during hunting season.
