AllCreaturesQQ wrote:
> << Many people in the U.S. to this day hunt large bears with only spears
and dogs.  It's rough on the dogs but people seldom get hurt. >>
>
> Spears?  What about the suffering of the bears?  This saddens me.

Tell me what is worse, The bear (or any other critter for that matter)
to be
hunted and the population thinned while feeding people, or hungry
bears
going around attacking people and starving to death? The fact is in
most
places there are more critters than the natural environment can
support.
Habitat has been replaced by urban sprawl and the natural predators
(such as
Wolves) have been eliminated from the environment for quite some time.
This
combination has led to a wildlife disaster in most of the US. Here in
South
Carolina, The wildlife disaster is the White Tailed Deer. On any given
day,
you can walk through almost any wooded area in the state and find poor
half
starved deer. In some counties the problem is not enough buzzards to
feed on
all of the deer who starved to death!
Even if we still had natural predators, What would cause more
suffering for
the animal? Being hunted and quickly dispatched by a human hunter, or
being
surrounded and attacked for hours by a pack of hungry Eastern Red
Wolves?

Kevin Raper
Piedmont SC
Are the Indigo Girls the ladies who put the "point" marks on Hudson's
Bay
blankets?