The Giraffe Picture

[sp1814]

Can anyone help me understand why someone would do this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/15/ricky-gervais-blasts-hunter-rebecca-francis-posed-grinning-dying-giraffe_n_7070512.html

I mean, it's not as if giraffe numbers need to be kept down, or there's a massive market for giraffe-skin trousers.

So..why?

At least with poaching there's a reason (ecomonics - sale of fur, rhino horns, ivory etc).

But giraffes???

[ummmm]

Yes...A bear, leopard and a lion. She looks delighted with herself.

[Retrochic]

Her web site is disgusting showing picture after picture of beautiful animals she's shot -and her posing, grinning like a Cheshire cat. By taking these photos of the animals she has killed shows she has no respect for them. She is not alone,I've met men and women like her in Canada and they really are verging on the edge of psychosis. And as for the ridiculous suggestion she is not better than farmers and country folk -I have yet to see any farmer having photos taken of himself with his carcasses at the butchers!

[naomi24]

Someone said it'll come back to bite her. Pity one of the animals she's killed for fun doesn't come back to bite her.

[gness]

Oh there is hope yet, Naomi....I saw it in Canada.....sickening hunters getting too cocky and sure of themselves til Mother Bear got her own back......x

[jomifl]

hunting seems to be a primitive behaviour that can become addictive. When I was working in North Wales a local water bailiff told me of a salmon poacher who was so intent on catching a salmon that it killed him, or rather his single minded stupidity killed him. The salmon he was trying to snare, snared him...inadvertantly.

[sunny-dave]

The good thing is that (in New England at least) more hunters are shot and killed by other hunters than any of the theoretical target species ... natural selection I calls it.

[jomifl]

I have to confess that I do accept game such as venison from our local hunters, just to help them out...

[gness]

Sometimes, in Canada, I would find myself in the company of people ...usually men... who killed animals for fun....

I never had a go at them......I would look sympathetic and ask how they felt about the recent Swedish study into men who hunted for "sport".

They knew nothing about it of course...well it didn't exist did it.....but I could wax lyrical for a long time about how the study found that hunters were making up for a lack of virility......how they had low sperm count and often needed the help of testosterone gel......

I did go on for some time about the sexual shortcomings of hunters all the while saying it wasn't actually my view....☻....it really had come to light in the Swedish studies.....x

[B00]

At least one elephant got its revenge on one of these odious critters...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/571085/Professional-hunter-trampled-to-death-elephant

[ummmm]

I was just going to post that, B00.

[B00]

lol sorry ummmm, it still makes me chuckle though :-)

[gness]

And I'll bet the elephant had more grace than to lie down beside the dead man and smile......☺

[sunny-dave]

"Big Gun, Small Richard" - is that it gness?

[wolf63]

I have been thinking about this thread but feel that it is more complicated than I first thought.

• I love animals, my two 'employers' are cats. I love them very much.

• I know that in other parts of the world people eat cats. This doesn't bother me too much because why should I expect other people to live by my rules and standards.

• I object to the cats/dogs being very cruelly treated prior to death - often by beating the animal severely. There is no justification for this.

• I eat meat, I feel like a hypocrite but I enjoy both the taste and the texture.

• There is nothing wrong with the idea of hunting in an attempt to control animal populations or to provide food for others. (Hunting can also be done with cameras instead of guns.)

• Yet this woman and her exploits worry me – maybe it is her being pictured with a huge grin on her face beside the dead animal.

I hope that some of this makes sense, I am very tired and am off to battle with the huge cat currently hogging my bed. He thinks that me turfing him off the bed constitutes cruelty.

[gness]

Spot on, Dave......it's just occurred to me how many Canadian men I must have left feeling a tad inadequate.......☺

[jomifl]

I like the way the press described the elephant's actions as 'brutal', well it would be as it is a brute'. I suppose the hunter would have killed 'humanely' had hhe been given the chance.. :-)

[gness]

Just think about the many hunters who are pathetic shots....they don't care.. they just like shooting and if they injure an animal and leave it to die a slow and painful death...do they care....not a bit of it.

[jomifl]

It is strange, bizarre even that the pressure groups that try to prevent 'cruelty' to laboratory animals or to hunted foxes and culled badgers seem to have a bind spot when it come to hunting game and angling but perhaps they know they haven't a hope against the huge numbers of people who enjoy making wildlife suffer in so many ways.

[B00]

Not quite following you there jomifl? Most animal 'crusaders' (for want of a better word) equally abhor hunting along with other atrocities against animals and regularly speak out against them.

[jomifl]

Boo I used to work on rivers quite a bit carrying out surveys of one kind or another, I never ever saw anyone protesting against angling despite the riverbanks being at times festooned with fishing lines and I have never seen anyone tring to prevent the French hunters from going about their lethal business. My point is that far more animals are maimed, tortured and killed by 'hobbyists' than in animal testing labs (whose actions can often be justifed) yet nobody raises a murmur.