Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread glenda Goodman
My take on this is most guys who hunt are fat cats who eat a lot of meat and can afford to take hunting trips... This means, they often hold high end jobs, where they sit at a desk all day. "Hunting" restores that need in them to feel like real men. For starters, these out of shape creeps, need to

Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread laurieskatz
AGREE ...hiking, and photo taking would be, dare I say, spiritual. I have learned more from watching deer in my yard for years than any hunter learns from stalking and killing innocents. They ARE families. I have watched bucks play fighting with fawns and bucks grooming each other, does grooming

Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread Barb Moermond
first, I agree that canned hunts are absolutely wrong; besides, where's the "sport" in catching something inside a fence? second, most deer hunters are NOT "fat cats". In a lot of really rural areas, the poverty is such that there are many many families who depend on hunting to feed their fami

Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread Susan Dubose
Well, it's too bad that they just don't care about animals, except for their "purebred" huntin' dog. They just want something to hang on their wall to make up for "inadequacies" they have "elsewhere", if ya catch my drift :) And don't get me started on "canned hunts" Susan J.

Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread glenda Goodman
Well, let's see if there is anything else mean we can say about those guys...I forgot about the gun in their pants not working... --- Susan Dubose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it's too bad that they just don't care about > animals, except for their > "purebred" huntin' dog. > > They just

Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk

2007-08-18 Thread Susan Dubose
True as it maybe there are folks who have to hunt to feed their families, and I am not someone to begrudge someone else's "survival". However, speaking from experience also, everyone I have ever met has hunted for "sport" and to be w/ their buddies. And lots them have to have the "trophy" head

OT: A quiet day...

2007-08-18 Thread glenda Goodman
Hey Guys, Personally, I always enjoy seeing people who hurt animals suffer. I noticed Susan was not getting a lot of feedback on her slam on hunters... I felt like it was a good topic for a quiet afternoon... I thought it was understood ,the types we are talking about, are the people who hunt for

Re: A quiet day...

2007-08-18 Thread Susan Dubose
You're so funny, Glenda.. :) (I mean that in a good way, sometimes w/ email it is hard to tell). I really didn't care about feedback, tho, per se, I just thought that the study was interesting. As for people having too many kids, I said earlier that if you can't afford to feed your family

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2007-08-18 Thread wendy
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