[KC_Lion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ9jZ-_fFc

[RIghtwardHo]

Oh good grief.

I do not believe for one iota that this seasoned big game hunter just thought this was another “legal hunt”.

Who wrote this article? A defense atty? Talk about something not passing the infamous “laugh test”.

[packrat35]

I agree with everything in this article and thought that FR had turned into the Sierra Club for awhile. The lion was old and too many city folk here on FR don’t know squat about hunting.

[5th MEB]

Don’t like the fact that the guy baited the lion, but if the authorities thought he was that valuable why wasn’t that area fenced off?
I don’t hunt anything that I am not going to eat, so that pretty much takes all predator animals off the list.
That being said I will kill any bear, mountain lion or other critter that becomes a danger to my family or my live stock.
When I have to do that, I use the meat from predators as dog food.

[PghBaldy]

It isn’t fair to blame Disney.

[ProfoundMan]

People who claim to “love” animals more than people are emotionally damaged individuals incapable of weathering the difficulty required in a real relationship with something that can talk back.

I wish I had a dime for every time I've thought something like that. Kudos to the author for putting it so succinctly.

[spintreebob]

Blame Rousseau and his concept of the NOBLE SAVAGE.
That concept is the basis for not only leftist politics, but also leftist entertainment.

[DouglasKC]

People who claim to “love” animals more than people are emotionally damaged individuals incapable of weathering the difficulty required in a real relationship with something that can talk back.

LOVE this article.....has loads of truth...ESPECIALLY the line quoted above.

I say the same thing. Loving animals instead of people GUARANTEES that you won't have to compromise, fight, struggle or examine your own faults and shortcomings. In short, it ensures that you'll never ever truly learn how to love.

[Captain Compassion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiECWKxgD-Y

[driftless2]

There can be two legitimate points of view not mutually exclusive: the guy can be a jerk, and many of the people criticizing him can be hypocrites.

That's my view. I support hunters, and even big African beasts have to be put down at times. But this hunting experience sounds screwy. Like when LBJ tied up a deer on his property and asked Hubert Humphrey to shoot it. Humphrey refused.

However, at the same time many of the people not only criticizing the dentist but threatening to kill him sound like people who love humanity but hate humans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Da bad man shot da puddy tat!”

[hapnHal]

African Safari to hunt for animals: Hey, I got a better idea how bout hunting a Boko Haram? Check out these photos: http://africanhuntingsafaris.com/hunting-pictures-africa/ Photos ← Quick links to PHOTOS sections: HUNTING 1 → HUNTING 2 → HUNTING 3 → HUNTING 4 → HUNTING 5 LEOPARD → CHEETAH →

[RaceBannon]

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Thousands of wildebeests are rooting for the dentist.

[faithhopecharity]

The author seems to overlook the fact that some of us can relate well (and care about) people AND animals

all God’s critters, yaknow

[Dr. Sivana]

Regarding my best "puddy tat": not only did he always return when we let him out, he jumped into my arms and licked my face when I returned after a two week wedding and honeymoon. It isn't human love, of course, but it is its own bond.

Big cats are different. I did get to eat some lion meat at a wild game dinner fund raiser for the local Knights of Columbus. i don't know his name, though.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I don’t blame the hunter so much as the guides and the government of Zimbabwe for allowing the hunts in the first place. And I have no sympathy for the nutjobs threatening this guy. But the dentist should stick to hunting non-threatened species - that lion apparently controlled a pride and was fathering cubs in coalition with another male lion. That pride is now a target to be taken over by young males which will kill the cubs to bring the females into heat. A lot of unneeded death of a threatened species for no good reason.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I just don’t get all the hysteria over a dead animal.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember 42 years ago when Chief Dan George shot a legal bison. Then a few years later a legal hunter also shot a lion in Africa, and got a photo op in a major newspaper.

The letters to the editor were filled with vicious hate mail for a while.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in 1900, this state had less than five hundred deer in the entire state.

Then came limited licensed hunting and deer became a valuable asset to the economy. Now we are overrun with deer everywhere!