What the F are you going to do with a Bobcat idiot?
Posted on 07/28/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by grundle
Cecil the lion, a famous black-maned resident of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, died at the hands of an American dentist, conservationists claim.
They say Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to hunt and kill Cecil with a bow and arrow. The incident occurred around July 6, with a professional hunting outfit reportedly luring Cecil outside the boundaries of the protected reserve using a dead animal as bait.
“Mr. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn't kill him,” Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement. “They tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. Cecil, who was known all over the world would have earned millions of dollars just from sightseeing. Walter Palmer apparently paid $50,000 for the kill."
It wasn’t the first kill for Palmer, who has multiple photos posted on the website Trophy Hunt America showing the Minnesota resident posing with dead lions, rhinos, water buffalo, warthogs, and other animals.
The Telegraph is reporting from two independent sources that Palmer was indeed the hunter listed on the permit documents, and a spokesperson for Palmer told the news outlet that Palmer believes he is the one responsible for the lion’s death.
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Great!
Can we all have one?
It might be an undiscovered Human Right!
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Speaking for American Mountain Lion, yes... A weird grain to the white-ish meat, but pork-ish in flavor... maybe with a touch of gamey rabbit in the aftertaste... Tends to be dry like rabbit... needs a sauce, or to be cooked in lard/butter for a fat of some sort... Lynx/Bobcat... about the same...
Yeah but it'll cost $50K for the permit plus other expenses.
It might be an undiscovered Human Right!
I don't know enough about the Zimbabwean constitution but hunting appears to be legal there.
What the F are you going to do with a Bobcat idiot?
Amen. He is a foul excuse for a human. I hope he had to do time in an African prison. And if he can drop that kind of cash to kill Cecil, he can drop some serious bones for the fine.
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I know!
The have open season on white land owners there.
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I basically agree with what need to be done. But at the same time it’s amazing how all the animals survived and even thrived when man wasn’t even around.
Sounds like your Dad was a fine and thoughtful man.
My Grandson has told me a couple of times that what I said stuck with him.
He was out hunting deer a couple years ago, and a large bobcat came out of the brush.
He said “Pop-Pop I scoped him, and then I thought oh crap Pop-Pop is gonna make me eat him.” He said it would have been like eating their housecat, Yyeech!
I laughed for an hour! :)
Seems that most posters on this thread are leftists. Feel like I'm on DU.
plus there is absolutely no honor in it. There is no honor in killing a majestic creature then posing like a moron for a photo.
Locals probably disagree. If it was killing your cattle you might think see things differently.
Every time I kill I feel bad about it, even if it is fishing, but I would rather do that than participate in the supermarket assembly line killing of animals.
Why feel bad? How do you think you got here? Would you prefer to be a vegan and let nature run its course? Do you prefer that animals die naturally... being chased down and ripped apart by other animals, or to die slowly of starvation and disease?
I assume Palmer’s the guy on the right in the picture?
I agree, posing for pics with dead kill, hanging their heads on plaques like it was some big feat is over the top. Hunting to eat or control heards are fine. But animals should be respected always, not held up as some kind of trophy from the local carnival. IMO.
Of course people are people and this is what some do and it’s just the way it is.
That is not exactly right - Killing predators for the sake of killing them is fine with me... And such has a loooong history wrt survival. Managing predators is often a very necessary thing (think wolves, bears lions, coyotes, even badgers and wolverines... even skunks, minks, weasels)... And large predators (really any predator) are harder to stalk and more dangerous to take, so it is natural that a hunter would want to 'make his bones' that way, as it were...
Not that I disagree with you fully, mind you - I MADE my boys intentionally shoot a sparrow as the first kill when I gave them their bb guns... Each one held that dying, fluttering life in their hand and wept... I told them each, exactly at that moment, "Now, this one is on me - I made you do this - I caused this death, not you. But I want you to remember this moment deep in your heart, and never take life of any kind without cause." They have never forgotten it.
And as a general rule, we too mainly eat what we kill - But I do think you paint with an overly broad brush that would discount necessary killing that city folks don't understand...
Some things are remembered for a lifetime and passed down to the next generation.
GOOD JOB Pop-Pop
What’s the point of hunting down and killing an old lion?
Is it just so you can say “I did it”?
It doesn’t matter to me if it was ‘legal’, under the circumstances, or not.
I just wonder about the man’s soul...
-JT
Yep, I agree. My family hunts FOR FOOD. Killing Cecil was purely sport and trophy hunting.
I personally despise trophy hunting, I think it's stupid and senseless. Guys who do that are likely compensating for a small hoo-haa between their legs.
Jerks.
You had excellent parents.
-JT
One thing is certain. The lion sleeps tonight.
The saddest part is that the lion lived for 40 hours after being wounded.
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