Do you, or anyone you know, shoot living things for sport?

Rikki

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

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I'm still hoping someone will confirm whether pheasants do actually drown by drinking raindrops, to get us back ON t.

Not that I am aware of but they do throw their heads back to let the water go down just like all other birds.

ding1981

I live slap bang in the middle of a country park, with the gamekeeper living down the road. He maintains the park.

There is a shoot once a month and 9 times out of 10 the pheasants fly away! As soon as the guns start firing, they are off.

Rikki

Game shoot season finishes on the 31st January so not long now and there is never any game shooting on a Sunday.

Pheasant mince makes lovely burgers.

Fritillary

Honeydog wrote: »

Shooting animals or birds is barbaric. We're not in the wild west where living creatures need to be killed in that way for food. I always think people who enjoy shooting must have some kind of inadequacy in another area of their lives "Ooohhh..eerrrrr missus!"

But shooting a high pressure bolt through a cows/pigs head isn't?

lostinrates

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Ah, that explains your signature, which has been puzzling me for some time:

I guess I should probably be thinking of plants rather than imagining someone bursting out of crazy pants in all directions - can you confirm?

sorry aj, that's very ot.

I'm still hoping someone will confirm whether pheasants do actually drown by drinking raindrops, to get us back ON t.

Yes, thats right. Sometimes they are typos, sometimes in my mind words interchange. Its kinda hard to explain. But sometimes the typos are funny, and if you cannot remember to laugh at yourself then life must be very grim indeed.

lostinrates

Honeydog wrote: »

Shooting animals or birds is barbaric. We're not in the wild west where living creatures need to be killed in that way for food. I always think people who enjoy shooting must have some kind of inadequacy in another area of their lives "Ooohhh..eerrrrr missus!"

Well i am in the wild southwest, and while i don't shoot now a considerble percentage of what i eat is the result of shoots. I feel less guilt over the meat i eat that is shot than i do the milk i drink.

lostinrates

cavework wrote: »

The people who go out in controlled shoots .. farm .. and make a living ,also contribute to the way the countryside is managed . Do you really think that the hedgerows and woodland areas look after themselves?
Do you really think that if the countryside was left without these people , your natural wildlife would have an easy stress free life?

I think some people really do genuionely struggle to understand that there is little unmanaged nature in most of the country. Hedges, copses, even what is left as managed neglect....

Our landscapes in most of this country are determined not by nature but mainly by how we have managed nature. Its all beautiful, and i for one wish there was a little more wilderness.

Also that in that management we have both introduced new pests that without management are destructive, and at the same time erradicated some natural predators.

Fritillary

lostinrates wrote: »

Well i am in the wild southwest, and while i don't shoot now a considerble percentage of what i eat is the result of shoots. I feel less guilt over the meat i eat that is shot than i do the milk i drink.

Ah.. almost forgot about the poor dairy cows, pheasants really do have it quite good

LisaB85

Honeydog wrote: »

Shooting animals or birds is barbaric. We're not in the wild west where living creatures need to be killed in that way for food. I always think people who enjoy shooting must have some kind of inadequacy in another area of their lives "Ooohhh..eerrrrr missus!"

So shooting a rod of steel at a cows/pigs head (often not killing it) then having their throat slit isn't barbaric? I suggest researching how the meat you eat from the supermarket is kept and killed.

Lotus-eater

Honeydog wrote: »

Shooting animals or birds is barbaric. We're not in the wild west where living creatures need to be killed in that way for food. I always think people who enjoy shooting must have some kind of inadequacy in another area of their lives "Ooohhh..eerrrrr missus!"

Are you a vegan?

If you are, your criticisms are valid, if you are not, then they are pathetic.