Posted on 08/02/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Unless you live under a rock, there is no way in Hades that you have not heard of Cecil the Lion’s dreadful demise.
Matter of fact, there has been such an international uproar over his killing that Obama is now slated to do the eulogy at Cecil’s funeral. It’s also been reported that Michelle has already contacted Cecil’s pride to give them her and Barack's condolences. It’s true. Tell everyone.
Now, before I give you my two cents as a big game hunter on the Cecil situation, right before I sat down to bang out this screed my editor pointed out to me that she just posted on my entertainment site, RedHotChaCha.com, pics of two male, Cecil-looking-lions, catching and killing a magnificent kudu bull.
It was disgusting. How could lions team up on such a gorgeous antelope and be so mean? How could this happen? I’ve never beheld lions behaving like that in a movie. According to Disney and the like, lions, warthogs and various plains game animals sing “Hakuna Matata” together.
As you will see (if you clicked the link) the lions chased the kudu down, weaving in and out of vehicles, as car loads of animal lovers with their children watched in horror as The Ghost and The Darkness broke the noble kudu bull’s neck and then commenced to crunch and munch on it in front of them like Larry The Cable Guy would a platter of nachos at a Hooter’s Macho Nacho Blow Out.
It was so sad, folks. It almost made me renounce my religion. I felt led to start a Twitter hashtag campaign I titled #KuduLivesMatter in homage to the murdered bull. It also made me say to my self, “Self, I wonder if the sweet, tender, lovable and damn near human-like lion that we call ‘Cecil' ever scared, bit and/or ultimately murdered, in a grueling and truly terrifying fashion, the food he masticated upon?” Surely not, because Cecil is our official Saint Hello Kitty and he would never ever harm or hunt an animal down like he was hunted, would he? Huh?
Being an inquiring mind I wanted to know if lions' chasing down game, scaring the crap out of it and then viciously killing it is common practice amongst the Panthera Leo's; and boy, oh boy … did I land on a stack of vicious videos of lions doing some uber-nasty shenanigans to their fellow four footed fauna.
Some PETA reps would call what the lions did “evil“ because it sure as heck wasn’t an ethical way to treat an animal. Nature is a serial killer. Fo’ real, y'all.
Befuddled, I continue to investigate further and watched several other videos of lions' eating cape buffalo calves, cows and older bulls; blue wildebeests and helpless zebras; some were actually still alive. Hello! That ain’t right. I’ve never seen that bloody display on Nickelodeon or Saved By The Bell re-runs. How can this be? Because … apparently … it be. And it be bloody, filled with suffering, screams and death bellows all doled out to innocent, beautiful animals, via some dead-ringers of Cecil The Lion. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?
Speaking of being not nice, my buddy Shaun sent me a link to man-eating lions actually killing black Zimbabweans around Lake Kariba. That was heinous. I thought #BlackLivesMatter? Apparently not to lions or Twitterers because I haven’t heard squat from them regarding these jacked up fatal maulings. We should ban lions because they’re vicious to the animal kingdom and to blacks.
Ok, I’ll stop being a cheeky douche in pointing out how daft the PETA types are and give you what I really think about the Cecil scenario.
This is what I’ve been able to deduce from true sources who are “in the know” and not some Facebook warrior going hashtag nuts with the Cecil movement while also viewing fetish porn.
Check it out…
According to my sources, professional hunters with boots on the ground in Zim, it looks like the professional hunter and the black Zimbabwean landowner did not have a lion on quota and therefore the taking of Cecil, or any lion for that matter, on the Antoinette farm that bordered The Hwange National Park was illegal meaning … he poached it. And hunters, especially, hate poachers. I. Mean. Hate,
So, did Palmer know? Heck if I know. That said, the ultimate onus is on the professional hunter and the landowner. If, in fact, Cecil was poached then the PH and the land-owner should be summarily crapped on to the fullest extent of the law because what they did was illegal and it gives true hunters a bad name.
However, if we find out, as the investigation unfolds, that the landowner, PH and the hunter did not shoot Cecil illegally then I think they're due a massive apology from Matt Lauer, Jimmy Kimmel and all the other Twitter # warriors for ruining their reputations before waiting for all the facts to come out.
Finally, if one wants to really get pissy, they should seek to overthrow Zim’s President Robert Mugabe because that son-of-a-bitch, along with his generals and ministers, have truly decimated Zimbabwe's wildlife with his brutal and greedy, iron fist.
She was shooting for her life though, a real heroine.
I never suspected she was a junkie. She looks so clean and fresh faced.
I think Cecil the lion was a gay Lion so put a arrow throw his ass.
The lion, cecil, was tame and used to contact with humans. He was famous for not being afraid of humans! The scum dentist is going down and I will celebrate! He’s already hiding under a rock where he belongs.
Why, that's a bargain!
The tame lion was lured out of the animal sanctuary with a dead animal tied to a car. Cecil followed. Why not just go to a zoo and shoot in the cage? What a great hunter.
The farmer and the Professional Hunters and guides should be the ones to keep him out of trouble--it is their licenses on the line.
Yeah, the dentist screwed up in the past, but I would think that would make him even less inclined to create an international incident and be a white man risking being stuck in a prison in Zimbabwbe when it just doesn't cost much more (if any) to have a lawful hunt, with the correct permits and licenses, with all 'i's dotted and 't's crossed.
Obviously, the whole thing is pretty crazy, but I think he knows it now.
He lured him out of a famous animal sanctuary. This was not his first rodeo. He also was in trouble for fishing without a license before the incident with the bear and who knows how many more he did not get caught at.
Palmer couldn’t wait to display a lion in his special shrine. It has over 50 heads in it and he has a bar in there where he has drinks and admires his handiwork and brings people to show off to. The lion was to be the icing on the cake to his collection. He uses his wife’s family money to finance everything. He won’t be keeping Cecils head. Tough luck!
Or did an employee of or one of the guides/professional hunters?
Bottom line: their integrity is on the line, and they always have the option to play by the rules. It is their home turf, and they should know the rules and insist on abiding by them.If rules were broken, the place to start gigging people is right there to discourage other guides and professional hunters from breaking the rules or letting their clients do so.
Bait is not individual animal specific, although it may well appeal to a specific species.
Once the lion leaves (any lion), if it is in an area where there are permits legally obtained and all other rules are complied with, it is fair game.
If you have never had to tell a client (whatever you do) that you would not do something that did not comply with the law, I feel sorry for you. If you are the professional, it is up to you to make sure they know what the laws are.
Yes, it can cost you money in the short run, but in the long run you are better off. I don't need unscrupulous clients anyway. They are a liability, and can cost you your reputation.
The striped critters’ problem was not Cecil. Their problem was Cecil’s wives. They went to work while Cecil sunned himself. From time to time, they took down a zebra or two, permitting Cecil to elbow them aside and gorge himself and, with his wives, make more lions and lionesses. Cecil was a slacker! A proper king of the beasts!
Yes they went hunting at night with a spotlight at the sanctuary and spotted cecil, and lured him out of the park, where he was protected by law, with a dead animal dragged from the car. Cecil followed. Palmer then took his bad shot, the lion took off wounded, and they tracked him for 40 hours, then he shot him and the lion was skinned and beheaded. Then they attempted to hide the tracking collar. He wanted a lion in his collection so bad! Then he pins it on the guides.
And cecil being such a gorgeous animal...all Palmer could see was that head in his special building, behind the bar.
And littering. And creating a public nuisance.
His own friend said he was getting more brazen about how he “hunted.” The guy was getting older and probably does not have what it takes to legally hunt. His next stop is the zoo to bag some animals from the cages.
He is the public nuisance!
he’d probably wade thru hurricane water; carrying a case of green bottled beer...
It probably is a bargain if you want a shot at a lion in the wild that bad. Unless I had huge bucks I’d never consider it. And until Mugabe is gone, never in Zimbabwe.
Tame? You have to be a lib or a Supreme Court Justice the way words are defined. A lion with a name should've been smarter. Of course he wasn't afraid of people, he was a lion in an unnatural environment.
They also used a spotlight to blind the lion....also illegal. After the illegal kill, the dentist wanted to go elephant hunting the next day. He did not feel bad at all. He can’t hunt now and he must be going out of his mind jonsing for blood!
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