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Post by welle on Jul 29, 2015 0:04:37 GMT 2
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Post by outside cat @wino on Jul 29, 2015 0:06:32 GMT 2
Killing a lion...........I hope the prick goes broke.
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Post by welle on Jul 29, 2015 1:10:56 GMT 2
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Post by outside cat @wino on Jul 29, 2015 1:22:49 GMT 2
I think the dentist practice tweet along the lines (lions) it was just a lion....may condemn them for ever, or at least until a patients filling falls out.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 29, 2015 11:37:16 GMT 2
In general I am against dumb animals getting stuffed but I could make an exception in his case.
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Post by rikita on Jul 29, 2015 13:41:49 GMT 2
the thing i don't understand is shooting an animal for fun. even if he did think it was legal to shoot that lion and had been lied to about where it is from - why would you kill something for fun? for food, for protecting yourself or others (or i suppose your plants, if it is plant lice you kill), to keep an animal population under control is one thing - but what exactly is fun in killing?
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 29, 2015 15:08:43 GMT 2
Apparently, protests have shut his practice down.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 29, 2015 16:19:58 GMT 2
It seems he has form.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 29, 2015 16:29:29 GMT 2
He's probably feeling under par now though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 16:59:52 GMT 2
This is so incredibly sad. How disappointing that people can be so intentionally cruel. I don't understand it.
WHY???
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Post by shrjeff on Jul 29, 2015 17:03:19 GMT 2
and the arse is a recidivist  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 19:18:43 GMT 2
and the arse is a recidivist Apparently. Zimbabwe and the US have a solid extradition treaty. The 50K he spent to hunt and kill an innocent animal, he could have donated to some poor village in the country and improve the lives of many. I HOPE he is extradited and prosecuted. |
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Post by vinnyd on Jul 30, 2015 0:54:09 GMT 2
I don't think the pleqsure is in the killing as such, it's in achieving something difficult (or at least expensive).
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 30, 2015 9:19:55 GMT 2
What rikita said. People are the worst and most cruel animals on this planet!
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Post by Tilly Star on Jul 30, 2015 11:33:45 GMT 2
Each time I read about this words fail me. Why would a person do that?
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Post by Ethel Mertz on Jul 30, 2015 16:32:33 GMT 2
I imagine he might be wondering the same thing at this point. His practice is shot and he's one of the most detested men on earth. I hope he's having his moment of reflection though that might be asking too much.
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Post by where_is_my_mind on Jul 30, 2015 22:51:48 GMT 2
I hate that he's from my state... giving us a bad name. Makes me sick - someone who would lure a beautiful animal out of a reserve to kill it for fun. I do love the memorial the gentle folk of Minnesota have left at his storefront.  |
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 31, 2015 19:03:07 GMT 2
A couple of things makes this rather a First World story.
Checking through a not very representative sample of Zimbabwe websites I don't seem to be able to find a reference to the well known lion Cecil, prior to his death. That includes the Hwange National Park website, no prior reference to Cecil (the lion that is).
That brings me to the name, Cecil. Perhaps an unlikely name for an Zimbabwean icon; a bit like an Irish icon being called Cromwell.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 31, 2015 19:13:51 GMT 2
Well, we could argue that 'Cecil' the Lion's death got more of an uproar than some recent human deaths. We could argue about other aspects of this situation.
It remains that killing an endangered animal for pleasure makes no sense.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 21:16:19 GMT 2
Well, we could argue that 'Cecil' the Lion's death got more of an uproar than some recent human deaths. We could argue about other aspects of this situation. It remains that killing an endangered animal for pleasure makes no sense. I don't know how I feel about humanity these days. Well, I do, mostly, I am hugely disappointed. (war, murder, greed and the like). We destroy and trample the weakest amongst us (both people and animals) and some days it's hard to f ..uking take. And Some days, I think G-D should just start over. Send a giant asteroid to this hot mess of a planet and start over. This is shitty. And then I go for a walk and meet all the nice humans and their rescue dogs and cats...and I feel slightly better. meh. |
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Post by outside cat @wino on Jul 31, 2015 22:12:51 GMT 2
The decent far away outweigh the not so.....well at the moment anyway. I support these guys by paying a rangers wages for a year. I can't do much but I can support a lot (if that makes sense) Google IAPF Zimbabwe.
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