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 Habitat has been replaced by urban sprawl and the natural predators (such as Wolves) have been eliminated from the environment for quite some time.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?