Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Poll is now tied-Please Vote!

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Someone from the other side (the anti-animal, anti-nature side) must be encouraging their friends to vote for hunting predators. This morning the poll was tied at 47 to 47.
Please go here and vote for a ban on predator hunting: http://www.capecodtimes.com/news  (half way down the page, on the right hand column)
A group of wildlife conservationists asked Cape Cod National Seashore officials to ban hunting for meat-eating predators such as coyotes and foxes on the 44,000-acre park.
Do you support the ban or the hunters?
  • Total Votes: 3118
  • Ban hunting for coyotes, foxes and other predators
    47%
  • Let hunting for predators continue
    47%
  • No opinion
    6%
    photo by Jim Robertson

    photo by Jim Robertson

Vote in Poll for Coyotes and Foxes

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“A group of wildlife conservationists asked Cape Cod National Seashore officials to ban hunting for meat-eating predators such as coyotes and foxes on the 44,000-acre park. Do you support the ban or the hunters?”
Vote in Poll on lower right column here:
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news

Can’t decide whether to cast your vote on the side of the wildlife or the hunters? Here’s an example of a typical coyote hunter’s hateful mentality, sent today as a comment to this blog (and promptly deleted).

It is posted here verbatim sic (“thus was it written”)  for full authenticity:

 “we will shoot them even if there isn’t a contest they kill are livestock witch is are livelihood. we also sell the pelts there is nothing wrong with this. this also helps with other animals such as Deere and elk.”

Jim Robertson-wolf-copyright

VHEMT Finally Gets Some Publicity

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For more info: http://vhemt.org/

It’s good to see the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement receive some badly needed publicity. This was a top story on Seattle’s Komo News. If only VHEMT’s important  message about overpopulation were the subject of the article. It applies to everyone, by the way–what better way to phase out cops and the need for them. The key word is “voluntary,” but it will take a concerted, across the board effort…

Sticker inside Tacoma police car: 'Thank you for not breeding'

Hung and Christmas-decorated coyote stirs outrage

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Hung and Christmas-decorated coyote stirs outrage

Posted by Ted McDermott on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:42 PM

Earlier this week, Christine Svoboda was driving from her home in Thompson Falls to Plains when she caught sight of something strange and disturbing on the side of River Road, near the Sanders County Fairgrounds: a coyote, hanging by its ankle from a tree, with a red Christmas bow. She initially thought it was a wolf.

CHRISTINE SVOBODA

  • Christine Svoboda

“I was mortified by it,” Svoboda says. “I like wildlife. I moved to Montana, because I love living among nature, and then you see sad things. It’s cruelty to animals, is what it is. It’s very disrespectful to animals.”

Sanders County Commissioner Carol Brooker, who represents the Plains area, says she doesn’t know a lot about the offending coyote, but she does know Svoboda isn’t the only one alarmed by bizarre decoration. According to Brooker, River Road is the second busiest thoroughfare in the county. Its traffic, she says, regularly includes school buses.

“It’s really unnerved a lot of people,” Brooker says.

While Brooker says there is an old ranching tradition of hanging dead coyotes to ward off other coyotes from vulnerable livestock, she doesn’t believe this to be the intention in this case.

“This particular place that this is hanging, I don’t think they have any livestock,” Brooker says, adding that the animal is in a yard, not on a ranch.

According to Brooker, the Sander County Sheriff’s Department is aware of the coyote but is unable to do anything about it, since it’s on private property. As for Svoboda, she says she took photos of the hung animal in an attempt to raise awareness.

“I thought maybe I would try to just let them know that somebody knows, that somebody saw it, and maybe it’s not okay to do that,”

http://m.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2014/12/11/hung-and-christmas-decorated-coyote-stirs-outrage

HSUS offers $5,000 reward for person who killed dolphin with arrow

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NOAA seeks person who killed dolphin with arrow

Posted: Dec 09, 2014 1:22 PM PST <em class=”wnDate”>Tuesday, December 9, 2014 4:22 PM EST</em>Updated: Dec 09, 2014 2:01 PM PST <em class=”wnDate”>Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:01 PM EST</em>

By WFLA.com web staff

NOAA photo of hunting arrow that was removed from dolphin.NOAA photo of hunting arrow that was removed from dolphin.

NOAA photo of dolphin that had been shot with an arrow.NOAA photo of dolphin that had been shot with an arrow.

NOAA photo of pregnant dolphin that had been shot.NOAA photo of pregnant dolphin that had been shot.

A $5,000 reward is being offered in the disturbing case of a dolphin that washed ashore dead with a hunting arrow protruding from its side.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is investigating the death, which happened over the weekend in Orange Beach, Alabama. The agency says it is the second human-related dolphin death in the Northern Gulf of Mexico since mid November.

NOAA scientists think the dolphin may have survived for at least five days before dying from a secondary infection caused by the wound. The dolphin was shot with a steel-tipped hunting arrow that had a yellow feather on it.

The Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust are offering the reward with the hope it will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

“This intelligent, social creature experienced tremendous suffering from this senseless act. We are grateful for NOAA’s work to investigate this heinous crime and are hoping someone with information will come forward,” said Alabama HSUS Director Mindy Gilbert in a news release.

If you have information about the incident, call NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement in Niceville, FL, at (850) 729-8628 or the NOAA Enforcement Hotline at 1-800-853-1964 as soon as possible. Tips can be left anonymously.

It was the second human-caused death of a dolphin since mid-November. NOAA is investigating the deadly shooting of a pregnant bottlenose dolphin found dead on Miramar Beach.

To report a stranded, injured or sick dolphin, call 1-877-WHALE-HELP (1-877-942-5343)

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Though it remains unclear just who the perpetrators of these killings are, there has been speculation that local fishermen — disgruntled by dolphins stealing their bait or catch — may be responsible.

There have, in the past, been instances of fishermen intentionally harming dolphins. In 2009, for example, a man in Panama City, Florida, was sentenced to two years in prison after he was found guilty of making pipe bombs to kill dolphins. Several fishermen have also been slapped with fines in recent years for shooting the animals.