I guess I'm just not viewing the thread the same way, I don't think VA was tearing down a form of hunting I think he just can't see why anyone would want to hunt giraffes and coming from a smalltown VA background myself I can understand his view on it. That is just something we would never hear about or know of anyone doing in our whole lives here(without exposure to a site like this). I look at giraffes as goofy lanky animals that look funny when they run. Now granted that is probably because I have no real first hand knowledge of a giraffe only pictures, tv, and the zoo. So to me that is what I think of when I think of a giraffe, a zoo animal and because of that I have no interest in hunting/shooting one.

However,I fully realize there are people that would like to travel to where wild giraffes live and hunt them in their enviornment and add them to their trophy wall and feed the local villagers to boot. No biggie, I can't really relate to having the desire to hunt giraffe or high dollar exotic trophy huntingbut if someone else wants to thats fine.It does seem like killing something just for thetrophy aspect to me but heck that happens every season all across the states,I don't love it or hate it,it's just not me and I canunderstand why VA looks at itwith a certain"what the heck is that about" type feeling.

At the same time it is legal hunting so even though it's not for me and I am admittedly ignorant to much about itI don't want it banned or anything. I have been thinking about going on a guided Ostrich hunt myself, they look kind of like giraffes.