Friday, October 5, 2007

Hunting

My good friend and renowned bear guide, Brad Josephs got a chance to guide
a TV crew to record the annual bear hunt in Katmai, Alaska. He is a nature
lover and was very disturbed at what he saw. I was sad and angry at the same
time.

What right do we have to hunt anything for "fun"? What right do we have to
hunt something so that its head could adorn the miserable walls in our homes?
The hunters here are cowards - you can watch one shmuck give the other a
"high five" because he shot the bear.

I have a great idea - how about if we just gathered all these gun brandishing,
cowardly imbeciles and put them in a big pen and they just got their kicks
shooting each other till Kingdom come? I would buy front row seats to the
spectacle. It might be the new hit TV show, "The Ultimate Gunning Championship".

Enclosed is a link to Brad's recording of the day's events. There are some
parts in this movie link that are graphic but it does make you think whether
we have domain over animals that are going about their own way.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/SeeMoreDZ/katmai_bear_hunt_videos_ref.mov

This thing makes me seethe....

2 comments:

J Sandifer said...

Crazy!! How can anyone shoot something so beautiful in it's own habitat and for sport? Where is the sport? Thanks for posting this...even though it made me sick!

Your images are inspiring!

martinapple said...

I absolutely agree with J Sandifer and more so I would recommend to read THE BOOK by Karen Pryor "Don't shoot the dog!". It will seem that only thing that this book has common with this article is the word "shoot" but it is all so connected, if people would try to understand the beauty of animals and establishing wonderful relationship with them using the correct approach, there would be never something such as hunting and you will find this book a true jewel...