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Originally Posted by Read Culture of Critique
A blunt will put a small animal down humanely without ruining the arrow's fletching and also leaving the fur without a hole in it (pelts look just a little tacky with a hole in them made by a broadhead). I'm not certain what all this stuff about crippling/torturing/maiming/etc. animals is all about, but I do not believe I mentioned anything of the sort in my OP.
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As I said i didn't understand what a blunt was. One take I had was that many people, maybe not you, but still many people get the idea that they can discourage wild beasts with a variety of things that cause trama and pain, and some how relate that this crippling effect is humane.
If the blunt's objective is a clean fast kill, then I have almost no problem, but would still hate to see the animals wasted, more so to protect cats.
I like and have had many cats too, but they are no part of the wild ecosystem. They are not native and to me the native animals should come first.
I have not judged you, nor will I.
In NH where I live there is a vast population of feral cats. The way they get here, is that summer people bring a house cat, and the cats breed in the wild with other house cats. Often times both the cat brought here by summer people and their off spring are abonded at summers end.
In turn this reduces the native population of birds, rodents, and other native critters, and turns the ecosystem upside down, all out of natural ballance.
You are probably aware.
The way the first post is worded and the busting words lead me to believe, or get the idea this was something other than maybe what it is.
It isn't like I haven't seen bad pelts, infected critters, from man's abuse before. Once i saw a teen male all proud of himself for killing 3 baby skunks still blind from birth, which to me is sickening.
To me the term busting was a poor choice of wording, leading to these words which are just an opinion of someone you will probably never meet, so it shouldn't hurt at all.
My hope is you are not what I am discribing.
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lchoro, 2 winters back while plowing snow, on the 1/2 mile driveway, I came on to a heap of garbage, which i found curious. The better part of this was salad with dressing, and frozen solid. It did contain some bones and bits of what seemed to be chicken.
In my way I sort of paid attention to this mess in my driveway, and in a few days caught a woman dropping off more. I told her this isn't the dump.
She said she was feeding wild life, and so I told her maybe she should research, and see what wild life eats chicken and salad with dressings before her garabage attracted wild animals i would shoot. You should have seen the look that woman gave me when I said that! No more garbage appeared in the night after that.
In another place and another time I had horses. A part of the paddock ran near the road, and one day out riding I found of all things what appeared to be clam chower, evidently someone thought hourse would like clam chowder. I can't say I enjoyed the yellow jackets and wasps that had gathered for the meal, and or that I wanted or needed vermin that might be attracted to this mess in with my horses, but it never appeared again.
It does make me wonder what people think though. So far in 54 years of being around horses I have never once seen one, interested in clams.
If the person who did this act, somehow reads this, all I can say is that I like clams, and would prefer you feed them to me.
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