Friday, December 5, 2008

Exotic Hunting Preserve

Take a look at this story in the link below. It is appalling to me that anyone would do this, and I can't believe they are ALLOWED to do this! Zebras? Come ON! The latest update, which my husband read about in the library today, is that the citizens in the community have managed to pass a ruling forbidding it, but this man is grandfathered in and so he can continue with his business of killing exotic animals on this preserve. We are near the Clinch Mountain but not near this, thank goodness. I can't imagine having to drive past it everyday. Yet, just knowing about it just sickens me.

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=8771188

4 comments:

  1. That's not hunting, it's killing farm animals!

    My Dh and son hunt--deer and pheasant, and we (now get this!) EAT them. I can't imagine any other reason for shooting an animal, unless it is about to ea tme.

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  2. Totally agree! I don't understand the mentality behind this.

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  3. It`s not hunting.The same goes for our neighbors who have deer to hunt on their land,fenced in.They put feed in the feeders & when the deer come to eat,they get shot.You have to have about $10,000 to hunt there though.Dale Ernhart went there hunting.I heard he had a deer hunting preserve himself in the Carolinas.phylliso

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  4. Phyllis - See, I don't understand how these preserves get away with that, because you aren't even allowed to bait deer out in the wild. If we allowed hunting on our property, we wouldn't be permitted to put the food out for them. It just doesn't make sense to me.

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