Posted on 03/01/2005 4:35:52 PM PST by Huntress
It's not surprising to see the Humane Society jump on the trapping issue with its slanted views (2/22, Letters). It fails to mention the pollution caused by synthetic clothing and fake furs, that trappers are using a renewable resource and that furs are completely biodegradable.
But the real issue is this: The dogs never would have gotten into the traps had they been on their own property.
As a rural landowner, I've witnessed the urban sprawl. It's not uncommon for people to move from the city onto their three-acre tract and decide they are now in “the country” and that Rover can run loose. Well, guess what? Rover doesn't know his boundary line. As landowners, we don't appreciate Rover chasing our deer or, worse yet, our cattle.
The letter writer can hug all the trees he wants on his side of the fence, but if Rover gets on my side, I'll be using him for ditch fill.
Mark Smith
Kearney
The writer makes an excellent point about city people who move to the county. They often let their dogs run loose, and either don't realize or don't care that their pets can injure valuable livestock and other property.
Its just nature's way of seperatin' the good coon hounds from the bad ones.
Fair enough.
Where I live everybody has dogs but you never see them wandering.
Worse yet, in town, their kids say, "You don't even have a McDonald's here? Doesn't ANYBODY listen to Ludacris? The school library doesn't even have a computer for everybody?"
I can't get over the number of city folk who think that we ought to have a humane society come check out every stray dog or injured hawk. They moved here because of the LOW TAXES, duh.
I grew up on a farm and I've wondered the same thing. I remember seeing a TV show a few years ago where a van load of teenagers hit a raccoon, and then debated whether to spend their money on the concert they were headed to or on a vet for the raccoon. I think they picked the raccoon. I couldn't understand why they didn't just put the poor thing out of its misery and go on, and also why they weren't afraid of it biting them.
Worse yet, they start bitching about the smell of the cows. Keep all liberlas in the big cities. They ruined them, they need to live in their hellholes they created.
I guess I'm just weird.
I kinda like the smell of horse poop and the rotten fish smell of piers.
I guess I just associate it with good memories.
Kinda like the smell of Hoppes powder solvent.
No, that's not what's worse yet. What's worse yet is that the suburbanites decide that we have to build a McDonald's, a Domino's, a Jiffy-Lube, a Blockbuster, and maybe a mall, because it's so inconvenient to drive into the 'burbs to get to those things. Then they think we should bring in more development so that taxes are lowered, so local government approves townhouse developments, which then require new schools, more police and fire protection, sewer and water lines, water treatment plants, medical care, and wider roads, all of which cost more money than the townhouse residents pay in taxes, so that everybody's taxes go up to pay for all the new development that was supposed to bring taxes down. By this time there are more suburbanites in the "country" than there are country people, so when the suburbanites start complaining to local government about all the icky noises and smells that come from farms, they have the political muscle to make farmers comply with new restrictions. Pretty soon the farmers sell out to developers who plan mixed-use developments with office and retail space as well as housing, and the cycle continues. . .
You said it, and you said it VERY WELL!
Because they didn't have good sharp knife in the car to cut its throat, and because every city liberal knows injured wild animals never bite, just look at you soulfully and beg for help.
Well the pigs smell mighty fine when they are being roasted on a spit.
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