35 Replies to “PETA – Call Your Office”

  1. Simple.Stop hunting from choppers.If the Yanks can’t hunt on the ground like the rest of us,well tough titties.Only girlie men and manly girlies hunt from choppers.

  2. Who says you can’t please everyone? The double decision for stem cell funding now the double decision for wolf protection, just hope there can be a double decision for oil from the oil sands including all up-grading to be done in Canada.

  4. Sounds like a decision was actually based on science and not bs from the antis……..unlike the cancellation of the spring bear hunt in Ontario. I am a big Harris fan but he dropped the ball big time on that decision.

  6. But I thought Obama made decisions based on science (which is what this is in line with) – oh but that was for killing embroyos not wolves. Silly me – I didn’t get the message.

  7. I remember when Alberta sold wolves to Yellowstone, a good friend of mine from Montana was real upset with that, not only that they had brought wolves back in but that they had paid for them.
    I promised I would help the situation by sending all the coyotes and gophers I could round up to him for free.

  8. Bourrie, it’s *not* sport. It’s culling the numbers that would decimate the moose, elk, bison, house cat, pet dog, you name it.
    Opening it for sport would allow hunters to do the work of the cull without the government involvement, plus raise a few bucks in the selling off of tags.
    I lived in Yukon for a few years — I know what an unchecked wolf population can do. I seem to remember a family out in the Mary Lake suburb waking up to find all that remained of their 120 lb husky was a spinal column and part of a tail.

  9. Indeed it is predator control and has nothing to do with “sport” hunting. But I guess it is easy to get all teary-eyed for the predators when one is an urbanite, completely removed from nature. For anyone whose living depends on raising livestock and who has witnessed the carnage done by predators it is different. So many alienated from nature have been fed myths, such as a predator only kills when it is hungry, that they are clueless.

  10. Hey Yukon, tis a liberal dream to wake up one morning with a spinal column and a bit of tail.

  11. Yall missed the whole point of the photo…………..That’s Sarah Palin on her lunch break!
    And well those are relocated minority wolves looking for a handout.

  12. I flew Alberta Govt helicopters for twelve years or more till they were sold in 1994. I saw one pack of 17 wolves in the area east of Grande Cache which wss home to a diminishing herd if woodland caribou. Do you wonder why the numbers of caribou were diminishing? Along the Athabaska south of Fort McMurray one year late in the winter we frequently spotted a pack of 13 wolves. There were moose kills every few miles or less on the river ice. I also flew wildlife biologist in the mountain area out of Nordegg. If I remember correctly he estimated that in that pack of about 8 or 9 wolves they had to take down an ungulate every two or thee days to subsist, Here it was mainly deer or elk. We tried for number of days to shoot a wolf with a tranquilizer dart in order to put on a tracking collar but the wolves consistently outsmarted us by seeking tree or brush cover. It was a fun assignment.

  13. With the wild turkey population exploding in central Ontario, we have had a explosion in numbers of coyote’s. My uncle killed 4 poking around the barn this winter and it would have been no different if it was stray dogs, wolves, or cougars threatening his lively hood.

  14. I’m not teary-eyed. I do believe in sport hunting, and, in the case of wolves, letting nature take its course. If the government has people flying around shooting wolves, it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.

  15. Why not have a draw system with a limited number of tags for sport hunting of wolves to earn some revenue for the taxpayer.

  17. Those “Alberta” wolves sure are fecund! No viagra needed there. I have no problem with hunting, but culling predators to allow a target species to overpopulate seems to be short sighted. I equate that idea to trying to change the climate by reducing CO2. Nature has a way of finding equilibrium on its own. Don’t mess with it.

  19. I recall a video on NG about culling goats in the galapogos…..a helo borne government shooter, with a scope equiped M16, nailing cute little goats….which with no predators were stripping/denuding the environment destroying the famous Tortoise….
    NG obviously realized this was a neccessary evil…

  20. Hey Bob Wood,
    My neighbor here in SW Alberta says the wolf biologist has been around here tracking some wolves she tagged! How does that feel…? Ya that would have been a fun assignment. lol

  22. HuH! Just wait till the culling of Liberals starts. Now that video I will pay double for!

  23. The Galapigos goats are an introduced species. The wolves are where they belong.
    I simply don’t agree with paying government employees to fly around shooting wild animals.

  24. uuess: Nicely done!
    Bourrie: No arguments, especially when you have people lining up to pay for the pleasure.
    I shouldn’t have to tell SDA’ers that hunting is the best conservation program possible — hunters will tell you when things are good, and when things needs to be scaled back.

  25. It beats paying government employees to catch them and drag them to spay/neuter clinics…
    There’s a joke in there.

  26. It would be a good idea to relocate some wolves out here in the BC southern interior.We’ve got bambi problems out here that would be hard to imagine in a sane world.
    All those cute cuddly,watery doe eyes pleading with you to love ’em while they’re busy playing chicken out on the highway. Many collisions…some quite grim for cars and drivers alike.
    Provincial gov’t solution…don’t raise the bag limit…that would be too sensible…hire make work project people to line the roadside shoulders with reflector posts.
    Ya still see the deer ’cause someone forgot to tell them it was supposed to keep them off the roads.
    And as for nightime driving…if you weren’t having night vision problems, you sure will after staring down those reflectors for hours on end.

  27. City council in Edmonton wants us to stop putting down strays. How kind of them. Just a question or two: Where are they going to, & who feeds them?
    Animal control is a fact of life. If we hunted Human varmints, it would be a pretty thin herd.
    JMO

  28. “As a biologist, this ruling makes me sick. Salazar is a redneck with no understanding of science or respect for our native wildlife. Salazar was a disastrous and terribly disappointing pick by Obama.”
    The writer apparently disagrees with THIS particular governmental solution to a problem.
    So many city-raised “environmentalists” have no idea of why predator control has to be used once in a while. This winter, with all the deep snow,wildlife calves will be easy prey for wolves, and so will cattle.
    Provincial wildlife biologists, with whom I have worked, don’t go about these programs unless their research indicates there is a problem.
    Enviros seem to think that a bunch of rednecks get drunk and decide to murder some wolves. The wolf kill programs are based on a lot of research and consultation with farmers, ranchers, trappers, hunters, biologists, etc,before they’re ever started.
    Like the seal hunt, it’s bad optics, especially to the “save the whatever” crowd.

  29. Liberal – tail – spine. Gasp, gasp. No more uuess, please no more. keyboard gone, screen sprayed with coffee, still laughing.

  30. Mark Bourrie
    “The Galapigos goats are an introduced species. The wolves are where they belong.
    I simply don’t agree with paying government employees to fly around shooting wild animals.”
    The US gray wolves are an introduced species as well…
    And the Galapigos goats are wild…..feral but wild…..
    Culling both is good management!!!!!!

  31. So Kate.We kill off all the coyotes,wolves,cougars,grizzlies,black bears,etc? Nature has a nice way of taking care “of
    over populations”. You kill off all the food supply,well,you die too.The top of the food chain are predators,ONLY when there is enough lower food to munch on.Let nature take its course.

  32. Ministry of truth Bulletin:
    ….in other natural resource news, The Obama administration has also taken the unicorn off the endangered species list stating that; “they live in every hopeful heart”.
    At the Obama Hopey-Changey™ stem cell research center, a recent hope™ grant is being used to clone a unicorn from the cells of aborted Dem mule embryos…..pictures should be fabricated by 11PM…

  33. I wonder how the moose and elk survived, before those helicopters showed up? Wolves have been killing moose since the stoneage. Flying over a fresh kill is a bit shocking, but I spent 15 years on the ground, in close proximity to the natural order of things.
    Between poachers, and incompetent hunters, I’ve seen hundreds of animals wasted. I’ve seen things that would make your stomach turn. For every animal that ends up in a hunter’s freezer, or on a wall, there are several more that are wounded, and left to die. Don’t kid yourself, it happens every day of hunting season. Poachers clean up after themselves, so nobody sees their handywork.
    Wolf culls are almost always instigated by ranchers, who want more grazing land for their herds. They lobby local politicians to spend taxpayer dollars, to provide “security” for their “businesses”.
    People who’ve seen wolf attacks on pets in northern settlements need to see what those “pets” can do to wildlife. My brother spent a summer, forty years ago, killing dogs that were attacking deer. It was done, in secret, by the forestry service in Nova Scotia. He was part of a “hit team”, and carried a semi-auto shotgun, while his partner carried a scoped 308 rifle. They killed over 100 dogs that summer, some of them in the owners yards. All of them had been identified at deer kills.
    I’d also be willing to bet that most of those attacks on pets were done by coyotes, not wolves.
    Anyway, I’m not with Peta, so I don’t care all that much what they do. If culling wolves makes them happy, so be it. Every species will eventually become extinct, even us. Just don’t be fooled by the excuses they use. It’s about competition for territory, not protection of the ecosystem.

  34. Well maybe Bill Clinton should stop fertilizing all them wolf embryos and there wouldn’t be so many wolves.

  35. I still agree with Justthinkin. Shooting any animal from a helicopter is highly questionable. At the same time, most states and provinces understand the extreme negative scrutiny this activity will engender. One assumes they know what they’re doing. Meanwhile, I could use a wolf or two in my small acreage in rural Iowa. While it is ignorant to feed them, we hope it keeps them from heading down across the state highway to the corn fields. Death by wolf is much more humane than death by car. We know from assisting those killed nearby that more often than not, they are not killed but merely maimed to the extent they can no longer fend for themselves. At this time of the year and during Fall, the highway is littered with the results of deer/auto collisions.

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