On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:50:13 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

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The English pushed this a little far with their fox hunts.

Nothing wrong with mounted fox hunts with dogs.

Later,

Tom

Don White wrote:

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Churchill, Manitoba seems to have found a way to make money off 'bear
watching' tourists. They also have a program to relocate troublesome bears.



There's some people here trying to relocate the buggers as well:

http://www.friends-of-fur.org/
Personally, I'm supporting the idea of re-introducing them to Queen's Park.

We supposedly have a bear relocation program, too. I talk to the bear
guy every spring when he puts the live bear trap in my yard for the
maximum three days that he can spare it (IIRC there are eight traps and
over a hundred calls a week in the spring season). They are taken about
150 miles and released. It took the one I know of (a big one with a
green tag that they trapped up the road from here) three days to get back.


Oh - and I'd like to point out, for my American friends that it was a
right-wing CONSERVATIVE government grovelling for votes that canceled
the spring bear hunt in Ontario, not "loony" liberalism, which up here
we call "The NDP" :)

Stella

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:43:30 -0500, Harry Krause
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:50:13 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

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The English pushed this a little far with their fox hunts.

Nothing wrong with mounted fox hunts with dogs.

The foxes have a different opinion, I would imagine.

Foxes don't have opinions.

Later,

Tom

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:02:54 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:43:30 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:50:13 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:



"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

snip

The English pushed this a little far with their fox hunts.

Nothing wrong with mounted fox hunts with dogs.

The foxes have a different opinion, I would imagine.

Foxes don't have opinions.

Everything reported on Fox is an opinion.

You mean like Tailwind or the phantom Bush ANG papers?

Later,

Tom

"Don White" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message


I say...arm and train the animals. Might give them a 'sporting' chance.



There are more deer and black bear in the greater Washington D.C. area now
than there were 300 years ago. Oh, the mountain lions are moving back into
the area too.

We need to do more hunting with fire arms than with cars. The cost of
hunting with cars is taking a large toll in human life.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:02:54 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:43:30 -0500, Harry Krause
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:50:13 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:




"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

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Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

snip

The English pushed this a little far with their fox hunts.

Nothing wrong with mounted fox hunts with dogs.

The foxes have a different opinion, I would imagine.

Foxes don't have opinions.

Everything reported on Fox is an opinion.


You mean like Tailwind or the phantom Bush ANG papers?

Later,

Tom


Ahhh, the ANG story. Too bad we'll never really have all the details of
Bush's unusual "service" in that body.

Just the same for Kerry, a sitting Senator. We will never know for sure that
he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy. Then when Carter took office
he was "fixed" up again and that's when the Siver Star certificate was
re-issued during Reagan's term.

Oh, and let's not forget about the KKK Senator Robert Byrd from West
Virginia.

It's idiocy and political correctness of the highest order.

Could you define 'political correctness'?

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:45:05 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message


I say...arm and train the animals. Might give them a 'sporting' chance.

The reason I say idiots, is this.

Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

It's idiocy and political correctness of the highest order.

Later,

Tom


Gee thanks Tom. I understand perfectly well now.

jps

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:47:32 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:


It's idiocy and political correctness of the highest order.

Could you define 'political correctness'?

Your version or mine?

Political correctness is entirely subjective and while there are what
can be thought of as "PC", in fact, it is anything that one finds to
be offensive in particular when dealing with politicians and their
need to be all things to all people.

In short, there isn't a definition - it's whatever you find offensive.

In this case, it is an attempt by certain members of an outside
non-government agency to restrict the hunting/recreational fishing
communities ability to participate in their chosen sports. It is very
popular down state where people hunt their food in upscale, trendy
boutique stores. Up in the rural NW and NE CT, a certain population
which has moved instate and upstate which seems to believe that large
property owners can't or should not be allowed to set the rules by
which one allows hunters, or fishermen, onto streams, ponds or rivers
that adjoin or run through one's property.

So in this instance, that is my definition of Political Correctness as
it affects this particular issue.

Later,

Tom

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:09:52 -0800, jps wrote:

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:45:05 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message


I say...arm and train the animals. Might give them a 'sporting' chance.

The reason I say idiots, is this.

Dogs have been man's hunting companion since the first wolf wandered
into the circle sitting around the campfire and scrounged what ever
was left of the animal du jour.

It's idiocy and political correctness of the highest order.

Gee thanks Tom. I understand perfectly well now.

See my reply to Falky.

Later,

Tom