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I hear what you are saying, but I was taught to have too much respect for wildlife to kill something and leave it laying there for the buzzards. Mother earth always rights itself if you just give her a chance.

Down here in Southern Louisiana we have lots of hogs. I would go so far as to say they are over populated, BUT, meanwhile the black bears have been over hunted and there aren't any left down here, people shot coyotes for the hell of it, and Jaguar's were once native to this area, but have also been hunted until there are none left. All of these animals are natural predators of the feral pig. Now, they have opened a year round season on Bobcats. So what is next? Probably an explosion in the rabbit and field mouse populations. Then what? Start killing rabbits and leaving them for dead because they are considered a "pest" to farmers? As usual, it all comes down to the fact that people who call themselves "hunters" just like to kill animals for no good reason, and the result is a imbalance in the predator/prey ratio.

I think there is just a huge loss of respect for animals and nature. You can see it in the trash all over the ground in the areas I hunt, and the animals that are killed for no reason. I guess this is just a sore point on my part. Some people just like to kill animals, and others view the taking of a animals life very seriously. To each his own. I am not out to change the world.

Stan