Like others have said, we know it happens, and we know why, but it still hurts to watch it. But nature really is cruel at times. What is interesting to me though, is what would all of those animal activists say about it if they were to watch the same thing? They sit there and want a young child to die a painful death from cancer for wanting to shoot a black bear (thread from yesterday), but what would they think about mama doe beating up her baby and running it off? Would they want to save nature from itself, in the end destroying that which they profess to love? To hear them talk all the animals live in a quiet little meadow where nothing bad ever happens untill man shows up. At least we hunters spend enough time in the woods to understand reality, even if it is difficult to watch at times. They need to lay off the hallucinogenic mushrooms.