Just me and I speak for me only, I hate killing any animal and I refuse to eat meat...grrrr. I feel so sorry for those deer, they didn't hurt anybody and they have as much right to live as we do.......huge grrrrrrr! Now this is me and I am just saying I hate hunting and I don't care who it feeds or if there is an over population (and there is an over population of the human race..). And I can think of some over population of people(thugs) in this county (Ferguson) that need to be gone..nice way of saying something should be done to them like what was done to those deer. Anybody mad...don't be...it's just my opinion! sorry mods if this got off topic, I just didn't expect to see dead deer, last time I view hunts!
for the deer!
No one is mad at you.
Tarlita is right it is a necessity.
Except for the car and a few wolves (who makes absolutely no difference) there are no predators large enough to take deers here in DK.
But the deers breed happily and if the number wasn't kept down, the deer population would increase with 200.000-300.000 a year. - Yes, we have a lot deers here in DK! After all some 25 % of DK is now forest, woods or woodland not to mention the moors.
So to keep that number down, more than a 100.000 are shot each year - and still the deers spread.
That's actually a huge success, because around 1900 deers were rare, now they are everywhere.
So if thier numbers weren't culled, nature would eventually deal with the surplus population. Come winter mass starvation will set in, followed by desease in the spring. And nature is meciless, it's the weak, the old and the kids who will go first. In desperation the deers will seek towards towns and cities (they are common enough in suburbs as it is), there cars, trains, dogbites, stairs and stress will claim even more deers.
So the alternative is either mass starvation every few years or a reasonably carefree life in the nature minding their own business until one day - bang!
The number of hunters are going up here in DK. Hunters in general have a good reputation and practically anyone know someone who hunt. They are not monsters or bloodthirsty. Tv-programmes about hunting are popular and shown on primetime TV.
Hunters routinely visit kindergartens bringin with them animals they have shot, so that the children can touch the animal, learn about the animal and sometimes see it being dissected.
I've never hunted myself except wild dogs in Croatia, and I have no intention of doing so, because it's not necessary. But if the population wasn't kept down we would litterally have deers knocking on our door - and our dog would go crazy and probably attack. When we first moved in her we had to reinforce the fence in the backyard to keep deers out, until then we were regularly woken at dawn because our dog was barking his head off because there was a deer in the backyard.
It's very much a cultural thing I guess.
WARNING: Pics of dissected animals coming up.
Here is an article about a hunter visiting a kindergarten, bringing with him some ducks he had shot. The children examined the birds, watch them being cut up and finally they were eaten.
Ungerne i Børnhusets Hobitten parterede gråænder - Lokalavisen Aarhus
Another gallery, here with a wolf being dissected in front of children at the local naturalhistory museum and as you can tell the children are put off by the smell, but they are not horrified, they are curious and fascinated.
There are no longterm traumas. My own children have seen a lion and a whale being dissected and a cow being eaten by lions and they are fine:
Lokalavisen Aarhus: Blodet flød, da ulven kom til Naturhistorisk Museum
