Published: 15 Jan 11 11:54 CET | Print version
Updated: 15 Jan 11 17:13 CET
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Sweden's wolf hunt for the year began on Saturday, with nine wolves out of the allotted annual quota of 20 shot by 1pm, as protesters set off fireworks at a hunting area in Dalarna.
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To gun down these magnificent rare animals, whose only crime is they are meat eaters. Sweden is so vast, it should be able to home 2,000 wolves, and not butcher/damage the 200 that they have!!
Hunting is soo outdated. The hunters need got major issues!!
is this really the best person to be interviewed?
why don't u hunt with a bow and arrow instead or taking the easy way out and slaughtering the poor animals with your guns?
so-called hunters make me sick.
When will the world wake up and assist these heroes , they need Helicopters , drones and armoured vehicles to help them defeat this terrifying enemy and then they can continue in their effort against the Evil Army of Mammals that dare to live in the forests....then the birds next.....nothing will escape !!!!
Actually they are just a bunch of sissy cowards !
But we all, as humans, are a little bit guilty. If we eat food, wildlife was displaced to make room for the agriculture. If we eat meat, a life was taken. If we live in a dwelling, it stands where a forest once stood and the wood to construct it came from trees which were once home to animals. If we drive a car, there has been a tremendous impact on the earth to construct it and fuel it. On and on...
The best we can do is to use the resources of the earth as wisely as possible and to preserve as much of the wilderness as possible.
- exactly!
Let these "brave" morons who shoot from a mile away feel what it is to be stalked themselves and shot at.
This is not "sport" this is a massacre, since its not possible to arm the wolves lets take the guns off these inbred swine and put wolve and afore mentioned inbred in a cage... tooth and fang against tooth and fang - THAT would be sport.
Hunting as means of entertainment and "sport", produces sadistic feelings, a mental condition where the mental pleasure of the hunter is directly connected to the murder of specific animals, i.e. with the abstraction of life. It is of course obvious, and there is no further need to emphasize how negative this coupling of fun and murder is.
The recourse to weapons and the use of force and violence, marks the inability of the individual to use reason and argument as tools for solving his problems.
I really wonder, what is it that stops the hunters from killing, skinning and eating their bloodhounds? Which difference, have they convinced themselves, that exists between their dogs and other animals for example moose and deers?
Don't you think it's time to stop teaching children the ways of militarism, sadism and violence?
And of course not too many people eat wolf.
I come from a family that runs several gun/hunting clubs. My family always puts land management first. We have caught foxes, hares, rabbits, pheasants, badgers, etc that are excess and transferred them to areas that need to be repopulated at our own cost, while leaving more than enough to sustain local hunting. I am firmly in the same court as my family. I have got in arguements and a few fights with animal righters and hunters on the same subjects, particularly when transferring excess animals to help repopulate.
This hunt is wrong for a simple reason. The excess animals should be trapped and send to lands that need repopulated. A good hunter or enviromentalist will not like that, but will understand that.
Those animals should be repatriated to areas and countries that have either to low a population or no wolves so as to maintain there population. Ireland and the UK need them reintroduced.
In Ireland the Irish wolfhound was bred specifically to hunt and kill wolves. Now worldwide an Irish wolfhound champion is a disgrace to its breed. I have owned them in the past and will again in the next few years. I have refused in the past and will refuse in the future to have inbred weak half Irish wolfhounds. As in the past my dogs will be great grandchildren of my old dogs, tall, strong, broad, with endurance and strength. A dog that if it has to can kill a wolf, but is great with children.
Killing these wolves is not hunting. Killing these animals is vandalism of our common European heritage.
When I get land in Sweden next year, Wolves will be safe on my land and I will make that clear to the lcoal, hunters, not because of animal rights, but because they are too low in number and need to be reintroduced to lots ow Euroepan countries as part of our common European heritage.
Signed: Andrea, a member of a proud hunting family.
There is plenty of room for people and wolves to live.
I am ashamed for Sweden and my heritage.
Were the wolves allowed a fair hearing and trial before they were hunted down and killed!
What did they do?
Who decides how many wolves should live?
Why can't people like me decide, who controls any natural population.
With six billion people on this planet where can wildlife live?
Again!
Where wildlife cannot live than neither can man!
It's that simple.
GH
That is so sick.
If they are going to hunt then shoot to kill.
Every bird and animal (including so-called "pest" species) is a sentient creature and should not suffer unnecessarily as a result of our sporting shooting or pest control activities.
In this instance, why can't the wolves be relocated and reintroduced to other parts of Sweden where there is little human interference? Is the existing wolf population sustainable and viable in the long-term?