From: Examiner.com
by Cathy Taibbi – Wildlife Conservation Examiner
These wolf puppies are fair game for bullets or arrows – even at this tender age.
UPDATE – Archery season for wolves in Montana:
This season, hunters are allowed to kill 220 wolves — nearly triple the 2009 quota of 75.
Even if you agree with hunting, do you agree with the legal shooting of pups? This week in Montana, hunters are even allowed to shoot wolf puppies. Yes, puppies. And they can shoot them in the most agonizingly cruel way of all, using bow and arrow. And it’s all ‘legal’.
Worse, Mark Gamblin, spokesperson for Idaho Fish and Game, is already trying to justify bringing wolf-puppy season to his own state next spring:
“OK, I’ll try again. As I noted in my last post – in two (actually three – Lolo, Selway…
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Wolf fear and hate and wolf jihad: It is a visceral, irrational, hysteria based on belief based thinking rather than pre-frontal lobe, cognitive based thinking open to facts, science empiricism. It is also characteristic of far right wing thinking in politics. It is genetic I think. You see it world around and across time. If you try to tell these brains the facts, the science, to dispel the folklore, they completely ignore you, get emotional and double down on their beliefs, and will actually say, “I don’t believe that!” and then go back to reiterating all the folklore, myths and lies; which like the far right, republican brains do in the company of their kind, their echo chambers, on political matters. I think that it is also a reaction to conservationists: these people see wolf recovery and conservation coming from others, from outsiders, Easterners, tree hugging environmental extremists, and being imposed on them; and see laws like ESA and EPA the same way. It is also a simple, raw, basic conflict of values with wolf conservationists; they do not care, at all, about wolf conservation, in fact the opposite, they want wolf extermination. These minds need continual education on the value of wolves in the ecology; not that it will make a difference to most of them. These minds need to have their folklore, lies and myths confronted over and over and over and over. Most importantly, wolves need protections from them long enough for recovery and for them to concretely see that their fears were visceral and hysterical. State based management of wolves and other predators should always be under federal oversight. Wildlife ecology is a regional matter, not a state by state matter, which politicizes predator management and turns it over to state wildlife agencies that are largely of the same ilk as the anti-wolf groups (hunters, ranchers, trappers and rural conservative minds). When I read Chris Mooney’s “The Republican Brain” it was clear to me that wolf haters are same: Their thinking is a belief based way of thinking resistant to facts, logic, reason, science; it is concrete thinking. Change with them is slow, taking repetition, show me, examples; and it clarifies the need for conservation law such as re-listing wolves, maybe all predators, and keeping them listed for a very long time. Under the wolf-hater’s control, we will continue to see wolf jihad, not conservation. What is also very obvious is that state wildlife agencies need to be brought under the general populace control not the 6% of hunters, and ranchers, and the less than 1%n of hunters, and wildlife beholding to licence revenues. Hunters, ranchers, and state wildlife and USDA Wildlife and colloquial rural elements of their sympathy lead a war on wildlife and always have done so throughout civilization’s march.
Roger, every word you said is sadly true..including the part re: the conservative brain..it all makes me so physically ill…I am vegan..I am a rescuer of dogs..I am anti-hunting (I believe all hunters are ‘serial killers’) .I am an animal advocate and a wolf lover for decades…when I was a HS teacher (now retired) I would work a “wolf education” unit into my teachings of “Call of the WIld” and other short stories/novels..my point was to enlighten young people re: wolves..they had no idea of the misinformation…left to their own ignorance, hubris, their need for power/control and lacking self-esteem (tiny “dix), man will murder all these exquisite creatures yet again, I fear…like you call it, ‘wolf jihad’..*tears*…
How is this different from when wolfers would harm wolf pups in their dens in the 19th and early 20th century?
It’s no different.
I don’t know the Montana issues as well, but I sent a casual question to the “Ask Us” section of the Idaho Fish and Game website over a year ago asking the ages of the youngest wolves shot and trapped. I can’t remember if the answer they gave was for the 2012 or 2013 season — something about sending the teeth out to a lab for analysis — but the answers were an appalling 4 or 4-1/2 and 6 months. I don’t remember which was trapped and which shot, but don’t believe for a second that pups haven’t been tortured and killed with IDFG’s blessing all along. These people, both the agency personnel and the killers they serve, have neither conscience nor shame.
What a macho man, killing a 4-6 month old pup! But then, they want to shoot into herds of elk out of their truck windows from the side of the road too, so what can you expect.
It’s a shame that people are back in the neanderthal days of killing. To kill over hate is unjust. These are gods creatures and have been here since the dawn of time, not to be eradicated by humans. God put them here and he should have rule. Not men. Their are a lot of wolf haters out there due to ignorance and men wanting to be in charge. We need our wolves and these are future generation and this is cruel and inhumane is this the level of intelligence that people have come to. wow America.
Will we ever learn. Again and again – state to state. Doesn’t anyone know how to read? Doesn’t anyone have any feelings? From one animal cruelty issue to the next – why doesn’t it stop?
Good questions all
I am so sick of these people who are absent of a heart or soul. Who in their right mind could shoot arrows into baby wolves? Will there never be an end to this ugly destruction and barbaric behavior??
How incredibly sick would a “person” have to be to enjoy murdering babies. They should all be locked up.