Aerial hunting of wolves-opinions?

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Aerial hunting of wolves-opinions?
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Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:36am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr183lk-wQk


After watching this video, what is you opinion? Is this okay? Should it be illegal?


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Registered: 09-11-2007
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:48am
It shouldn't be called hunting. It's the arieal exceution of a helpless animal for fun. I never saw any joy in killing anything....so to me it's babaric at best.
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Registered: 08-25-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:51am

I have no issue with it.


Wolves have been romanticized by animal rights activists and some environmentalists to be some sort of "symbol of the wild".

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:54am
I don't have any problems with it either.
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Registered: 09-11-2007
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 12:12pm

I could find all of one wolf attack in north america that was not from a pet or from someone in a zoo going in the cages.


Yes wolves are predators....hunting their natural prey ( ie....deer.. caribou...etc) to survive. They don't hunt for fun...they hunt to live. I have never seen any site proclaiming that wolves are cuddly domestic creatures. They are wild predators who hunt to live.

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 12:22pm

When wolves are shot from the air they aren't usually killed, just injured severely enough that they will die...eventually. I have a friend from Alaska and she

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 12:30pm
Palin changed the state laws to allow this kind of hunting that was previously not in the laws?

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 1:03pm

The video shows one side. What it shows is clearly repulsive. But, I've seen anti-hunting videos in the past which have misrepresented the facts. I don't know that this one does, but I'm not ready to just accept it either.

I think we should consider the facts - the actual, relevant facts, all of them - before making a decision about it. I'm not saying anyone on here doesn't have the actual facts, but I know that I'm not aware of them.

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Registered: 02-02-2006
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 1:14pm

Ive heard that she did pass this law before but i cant find it anywhere on the internet if she did or she didn't. I would be interested in hearing what the other side of this is, is it because wolves kill the caribou and the moose, because im not sure if that is a good reason.

All i found was this:

Today Defenders of Wildlife, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance and the Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club asked the Alaska Superior Court to shut down Governor Palin's $150-per-wolf bounty program citing the fact that Alaska's bounty laws were repealed in 1984 and the State has no current legal authority to implement the bounties.

http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases_folder/2007/03_27_2007_judge_asked_to_shut_down_wolf_bounty_program.php

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 1:36pm
Actually, it's more akin to pest control.
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Registered: 08-25-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 1:42pm

And if you have a dog, remember that it is a subspecies of gray wolf, sharing 99% of its DNA.


This is exactly the sort of romanticizing

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