Dude, I grew up on ducks and deer in Canada. I understand the point of hunting. I also understand how we use hunting as a herd management tool. I know that all wild hogs are pretty much free game all the time - probably the only species out there like it. I was questioning the choice of having an 11 year-old do it with a pistol. Just a publicity stunt IMO.
wait... if you take a normal pig and let it loose in the wild it will grow tusks and hair out of nowhere? You got to be kidding me?
Yes, like I said on farms the tusks are cut down for safety reasons. The hair-growing part is not really understood or at least that is what I read in the magazine I read this in.
Tell me about it. We had one eating in our front yard at our house in Austin a few months back. Of course, me and my brothers ran after it (admittedly a stupid idea). I'll be damned if that thing didn't leap over our neighbor's minivan (cleared it like it was nothing) in its attemptemt to flee. It slipped up when it finally reached the hard asphalt of the street and fell for a second, but then got back up quick as lightning and was gone. Only one who could come close to keeping up with it was our dog (took us over an hour to find her after they ran off into the distance and disappeaed around a corner). As for that hog, I'm all in favor of doing anything in our power to ensure that those mf'ers stay rare. There is nothing remotely good about a damn pig that friggin' big. I can't believe some of you guys are lamenting its death. That bigass side of bacon needed to go.
Is Arkansas a 4 year university? That pig is scary looking, though I don't really believe in hunting.
This reminds me of the time those Chinese (?) vllagers carved up that 600 lbs. catfish.... made me shed a tear.
Real men use their hands. Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard By ARON HELLER The Associated Press Monday, May 28, 2007; 10:45 PM JERUSALEM -- A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family. "This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted." Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half dozen leopards have been spotted recently near Du Mosch's small community of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, although they rarely threaten humans. Shapira said it was probably food that lured the big cat. Leopards living near humans are usually too old to hunt in the wild and resort to chasing down domestic dogs and cats for food, he added. Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room. Shapira said the leopard was very weak when park rangers arrived at Du Mosch's home after the surprise late-night visit. He said nature officials would likely release it back into the wild. Du Mosch said he probably would not have been able to control the big cat were it in better health. As a nature guide, he said, he was familiar with animals and did his best to hold down the leopard without harming it. He said he took it all in stride, "but the kids were excited."
yeah...the opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the views of management. no matter what side of this issue you come down on, i'm amazed at what people will pick out of the larger context of the Bible in an attempt to justify something or become legalistic.
Why? it's nothing new and it is pretty much true. You cant tell me that most of history Christians believed that they are superior to animals (animals don't have souls) and animal suffering has been mostly ignored. Just look at Thanksgiving where millions of turkeys are slaughtered to give thanks to your god an millions more a killed for other religious ocasions. I don't think you can deny that this country's history and culture runs deep in these type of religious ideas.
Is Thanksgiving primarily a Christian holiday? I thought we slaughtered the turkeys so we could get fat, sleepy and watch football.
