Over the years of browsing the internet, being on many Facebook pages, having Facebook rub pages of trophy hunters in my face, pushing ads on me, the news, videos, I came to an understanding of how awful humans can be toward animals. I lived in many different places and it often is the same problem everywhere, too many prey animals, too few predators. I think the human race is only going to be happy when we have killed all the predators on earth and for what ?

Unethical hunting practices can include:

• Hunting out of season: Hunting during closed seasons is illegal and unethical, as it disrupts wildlife breeding and migration patterns.
• Hunting without a license: Hunting without a valid hunting license is illegal and unethical, as it deprives the government of revenue that could be used for wildlife conservation.
• Hunting over bait: Hunting over bait is unethical, as it gives hunters an unfair advantage over animals.
• Hunting with illegal methods: Hunting with illegal methods, such as using snares or traps, is unethical and can cause unnecessary suffering to animals.
• Wanton waste of game: Wanton waste of game occurs when hunters kill animals and leave them to rot, or when they shoot more animals than they can use. This is unethical and disrespectful to the animals.
• Hunting endangered species: Hunting endangered species is unethical and illegal, as it can contribute to the extinction of these species.
• Hunting for trophies: Hunting for trophies is unethical, as it values the animal’s life only for its body parts.

Hunting for fun: Hunting for fun is unethical, as it treats animals as mere targets for sport.

Now, before I start my ranting, there is a fine line between hunting for FOOD and hunting for FUN. I have no problems with people who are ethical hunters and hunt for food to feed their family. Hunting has been part of our lives as humans for many, many years. What I absolutely despise are hunters that hunt animals for fun and fail to understand predators have a purpose on our planet. You cannot reason with a unethical hunter ( I wouldn’t even call them hunter, that just degrades the meaning of hunting for food or tarnish ethical hunter’s reputation), it’s literally like talking to a brick wall. They are absolutely right in everything they say and know the absolute truth on predators. Predators are beast that hunt for fun and waste food and the ecosystem is a joke.

I discovered how humans can be cruel, when I rescued my wolf hybrid, years ago. As I was doing research on wolves and wolfdog to better understand my animal and give him the best life I could, I came upon posts from people absolutely cruel to these animals and many other species. In Wyoming for example, when I lived there, there were WAY too many rabbits living in the wild, and antelopes. These animals overgraze everything and as seen in the last decades or so, Wyoming has been really dry until a year or so ago, when it finally started raining again. Why would that be ? Because overgrazing causes the dryness by cutting off moisture levels. That happens when you kill all the predators that feed on these animals like coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars. Rabbits also damage people’s gardens as well.

Ranchers killed all the wolves mostly, except for Yellowstone and trophy hunters killed almost all the coyotes, holding killing contest every year or just shooting them on sight because they have no right to exist. Trophy hunters fail to comprehend this or just refuse to. This according to them is a bunch of nonsense, babbling from tree hugging people, blah blah blah. Prairie dogs are also a big problem causing harm to cattle, but people drove the black footed ferret to extinction. Who feeds on those prairie dogs ? Bears also keep wolves away. Where is the logic in killing all the predators ?

Never mind causing harm to our ecosystem, there is no such thing. Now people are crying about the overpopulation of Elk in Colorado, but they killed all the wolves. I guess we are the only ones allowed to thrive and kill animals, according to trophy hunters. When I moved to Oregon, we had crying babies complaining about wolves, mountain lions, and raccoons. It doesn’t end. In Alaska people are also crying about wolves killing mooses, bear taking too many fish. We humans are the only race on earth that actually kill animals for fun, yet we complain about predators supposedly doing the exact same thing. We kill animals for their racks, horns, pelt and leave the animal to waste away. You also have people who go out of their way, killing these animals in the worst possible way, making sure they suffer before they die, but animals are supposedly worse than us.

I have never seen a picture, except for killer whales, of an animal torturing and playing with their food, except for us. Trophy hunters love to run wolves and coyotes down with their snowmobile, torture coyotes, raccoons and they enjoy it so much that they love posting their mental sickness and psychopathic behaviors on the internet. I bet you, any of them reading this, would laugh at it, telling me that I am wrong, babbling on how predators are this and that and are so bad. In their sick mind it’s okay to torture animals for fun and they are proud of being like this too. We all know that people who love to torture animals have no empathy and are psychologically deranged. I have more respect for a man that hunts for food and kill the animal in a proper way, than one that loves to torture animals and watch them suffer. They love to congratulates each other too on social medias. There is nothing to be proud about that at all, it doesn’t make you any more of a man, tough, or anything like that. Most women have more respect and admiration for men who respect any kind of life.

Apparently animals overkill. They kill a lot of prey and just leave them there to rot. But we don’t ? You are going to tell me that these people are going to eat those coyote ? Nah, they are going to be thrown in the trash. This is why some states have too many prey animals. But we make it a point to control everything, just because we can and the government lets us. I just don’t know how many times I have seen animals with arrows that hunters shot and just left to die a slow death, while wildlife rescuers are working their butt off for free, to save these animals because unethical hunters find this funny and are too lazy to trach the animal, but animals are the ones that hunt and kill for fun apparently. They could show you plenty of photoshopped pictures “proving”, their point.

Last year, I saw an injured fox that was shot by a man, in Wasilla Alaska, out of hunting season. He did not bother to track the fox and just left it there to suffer and slowly die. When you report it, officials don’t usually bother either, because it’s just an animal, especially predators. They even go out of their way to arrest you for interfering with wildlife if you call them for help and they tell you to let nature run it’s course and you actually help the injured animal.

This apparently is a really fun thing to do for hunters, shooting animals and leaving them to suffer, alone and in pain, but animals are the ones that kill for fun… We are hypocrites as humans and don’t even want to admit it. I know most people are not like this and care for animals, but too many are, especially amongst man. It’s disgusting while terrifying to think that people who enjoy torturing animals walk and live among us. You never know when they will move on to killing their own. It’s not even a laughing matter, it’s just really sad and pathetic. Ranchers are too lazy to watch their cattle so they kill all the predators that dare to attack or kill their animals that are grazing out in the open, on open public land. They are even compensated if the animal was killed by predation. And if it wasn’t enough, the animal who killed the cattle is usually hunted down and killed as well. It doesn’t matter if the animal was a mother or a father killing an animal, to feed their young or family.

When does it stop, when is it enough ? As long as these people won’t be held accountable for their disgusting actions, it won’t stop. As long as Facebook, Youtube and private forums let these people post their disgusting videos and pictures to show their trophy, it won’t stop. If you want to do your part, flag and report these videos. Unfortunately Youtube and Facebook think that it is not animal abuse because they are wild animals and have no rights.

The false propaganda on wolves and coyotes killing for fun is so absurd. According to them, coyotes kill fawns left and right and that makes trophy hunters very mad because then, that fawn won’t grow up to be shot by the said hunter later. Only humans are allowed to hunt other animals, according to them. I am having a really hard time seeing the logic in all this. I can’t comprehend how a human can easily torture and watch an animal suffer, it makes me sick to my stomach, just to think about it but it’s perfectly fine for them. They even enjoy it, posting their videos on social medias for the world to see how sick and twisted their mind is. I am supposedly a tree hugger or a vegetarian because I love animals and I am against trophy hunting, while I am not against hunting for food. I don’t like watching animals suffer, just as many other people.

Animals don’t have a voice, and so it is our job to help them the best way we can and fight against people who torture animals and watch them suffer. A hunter has the responsibility to track their animal and stop being lazy and give them a proper death, to check their traps regularly, and to shoot their prey animals in a manner that it will not suffer. Some hunters love to trap animals and just let them starve to death. Animal abuse is not something to be proud of. It’s disgusting showing psychotic behaviors. It doesn’t make you tougher. Unfortunately there are a lot of people like that, that share their disgusting videos amongst them, patting each other’s back and being proud of their actions. They don’t care at all if someone who loves animals sees that disgusting video on social media. As we get older, a lot of people start to realize how sick some individuals can be and start to hate humans. This is why a lot of times, you see comments from people who would save the animal before saving the life of a human, and people wonder why some think that way. As we get older, people get tired of seeing animals being tortured and neglected by humans. We truly are the only race that torture animals for fun and take pleasure from it and it’s sickening.

Animals are innocent and are just trying to survive like us. The wild is harsh and most animals don’t even live that long, but for the short time they live, they have to worry about getting shot, trapped, tortured and run over. They can’t defend themselves, they are at the mercy of sick individuals who take pleasure from killing them in sick ways that make them more “manly” apparently lacking for something missing obviously. I have nothing against someone who is protecting their livestock and tries everything to deter predators from killing their livelihood. That is absolutely understanding. It’s people who kill and torture animals for fun that makes me sick and lazy ranchers who refuse to user natural deterrent to keep predators away. Ethical hunters will always have my support, trophy hunters absolutely not.

I just wonder what it is about killing and hunting animals for sport ? We introduce invasive species by our own fault and take pleasure into killing them. If there is an overpopulation on earth, it’s the human race that is. We have the choice to not make more babies, than we can afford feeding them, keeping them alive and healthy. We have the choice to not overeat and unnecessarily kill more than we need. I see so much waste everywhere. We have the choice to kill animals in a humane way before we eat them unlike in some Asian countries eating live animals, because they think it’s fresher. It’s absurd. It’s no fresher than killing it humanely and eating it right away. Animals supposedly kill more than they eat yet look at us hosting animal killing contests everywhere, killing dolphins by the thousand in some countries, coyotes, Muscovy ducks in Florida, pilot whales in Faroe Islands, Atlantic puffins in Iceland, horses in some states. We over breed cats and dogs just so that they end up in shelters being put down.

What does that say about us ?