On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I get that, and I should make that clear. It's just hard to separate the > two in my mind. > It is difficult, yes. When I first read Bruce's post I had a knee-jerk reaction and was pretty upset. But there is that separation. I'm also not a big fan of hunting for sport, or even hunting in general I guess. Me personally, I could never shoot an animal (unless it was in self defense or the defense of my family). But seeing as how I'm not vegetarian and I don't suffer the delusion that all of the animals that provided the meat that I eat died of old age after living out full lives, I try not to be hypocritical or judgmental. In this particular case tho, I really have to force myself to make the distinction between packs of wild dogs and dogs as a house pet. When you have 30,000 wild, feral dogs running around an area, I don't know that I believe they can all be rehabilitated (nor do I think the resources exist in that area to handle that, even if it were possible). As far as the shooting/hunting, as has been said by others in this thread... I'm not there, and I don't know what it's like to be under those circumstances. Given both those things, I can't help but reserve judgment. Which again, is a conscious effort. -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294433 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
