venting

[kpete]

I was about as angry and sad as a human could be last night.
They killed the beautiful mother bear who lived in my neighborhood for the last 15 years.
They killed her cubs too.

I had seen her last year in a field of wild flowers.
I am still crying this morning.
I am ashamed of my species.

Many in my community say there was nothing else they could do.
She was breaking into homes and teaching her cubs to do the same.

Somehow, I cannot accept that we need to kill everything that invades our space.
Up here in the Eastern Sierras the remote wildness always seemed to have an advantage.

no more...kp

[rwork]

1. Very sorry

I know that hurts.

[livetohike]

2. I'm so sorry

:hug: I feel the same way as you. We have black bears visit us her in western PA. There is a bear hunting season here and I cringe thinking about whether the bears I am used to seeing are killed or not.

Shame on the authorities who feel the only way to solve a problem with animal/human encounters is to kill the animals :-(.

[hamsterjill]

3. Very sad indeed.

As an animal advocate in my own community, there are many times when I am completed ashamed of my own species. I understand your comment.

Mankind as a whole simply does not understand the intertwined dependence that he shares with the rest of nature. Mankind as a whole has not evolved to the point where he can understand those things.

Some of us get it...and we weep.

[femmocrat]

4. How tragic.

They could have trapped and relocated them. There was absolutely no reason to kill them. That breaks my heart. :cry:

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Heartbreaking to even think about.

[rwork]

6. We had a bear here a few years ago.

It stripped a friends apple tree, even the rotten ones on the ground. So hungry.

The game rangers trapped this one and moved it back into the mountains.

[immune]

7. Awful.

Why is it that people, if they don't understand something, just have to hunt it down and kill it.

Used to have a cap that said, "I Support the Right to Arm Bears".

[patrice]

8. Risking my soul here: "God" damn it!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[patrice]

9. P.S. My random reading earlier this morning: Ezekiel 28

[madmax]

10. Sorry for you kpete

Relocating this little bear family seemed too much for humans to do. :mad:

A damn shame.

[dana_b]

11. that's horrible

I'm sorry, kpete. Why couldn't they have captured and relocated the bears? I do not know a lot about bears patterns, hunting grounds, etc. but it seems more humane than killing them. Unless they couldn't afford to do so.

Now I'm tearing up too. It seems so wrong.

[bvar22]

12. K&R...However, I would change one sentence:

"I cannot accept that we need to kill everything that invades our space."

changed to:

I cannot accept that we need to kill everything whose space we invade.

[Ignis]

13. No money for relocation, but plenty of bucks for bullets!

:puke:

Very sorry to hear this, kpete. :(

[uppityperson]

14. I am sorry for them. Once a mama teaches babies to break into homes, relocation

doesn't work because they now not only don't know where wild food is, but continue to find other homes to break into.

[JuniperLea]

15. That's horrifying, kpete

I didn't think that was done unless an animal killed a human.

I'm ashamed of our species too.

:cry:

[voteearlyvoteoften]

16. rec

[Fire1]

17. That's the problem, kpete. They are not invading our space.

WE ARE INVADING THEIRS!!!!!!!:nuke:

[Winterblues]

18. Who is "they"?

Where I live we have a lot of bear contact and usually when one becomes a problem it is trapped and moved to a new location by Fish and Game officials. Rarely does one ever get killed. When that does happen it is usually because the bear has broken into a house and they are unable to get it to leave and it is doing great damage. I am coming to the conclusion more and more that mankind is nothing more than a blight upon the Earth.

[kpete]

19. a little good news

The little blond bear "Oatmeal" may be spared.
My husband heard that playing the radio or TV keeps bears from breaking into homes.
If this works, he may be spared.

They have been chasing him away with rubber bullets and pepper spray but he keeps coming back.

Perhaps a little Rush Limbaugh will work.