God she’s so fuckin’ dumb. Typical English.

What she liked about hunting, she says, was “the going out, being in the woods. Time to think, being out in nature. I love it. Now I can’t do that."

Right. Because it’s impossible to go out into the woods without shooting something.

Right. Because it’s impossible to go out into the woods without shooting something.

My brother used to enjoy going out in the woods and shooting things. Specifically: deer. Recently, a lame deer came towards his back yard. Hurt, i guess it had no choice but to approach him. So he fed it and brought it back to health. The experience changed his attitude toward deer and now he’s adopted a whole colony. He says he’ll never hunt again. I worry about the deer he’s “rescuing,” but at the same time, it’s nice to hear a story of redemption.

But if we’re not going to hunt the deer, we’d better figure out how we’re going to feed them all.

If we stop killing all the wolves, the problem takes care of itself.

We should use DNA research to bring back the Saber tooth tiger that way we can naturally cull the deer along with anything else that gets in its way.

Not quite. Wolves need enormous wilderness areas to roam. Deer do not. So deer can live in the suburbs, basically, while wolves don’t.

We’ve created a situation that is only habitable to the deer and not to their predators.

That said, where possible, yes, wolves are part of it. I am pro-wolf.

Sorry, I didn’t see hyd’s comment. was responding to Moira.

And their really big kitty cats so you cat fanciers should be happy. And they eat wolfs..

The wolf comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek since there’s no way that we, as a species, are going to allow any other predator to run sufficiently wild to restore the old sort of balance.

I am pro-wolf but I am also pro-eating-cute-things. However, I am definitively anti-people-who-feel-they-MUST-be-allowed-to-shoot-things.