QUOTE: "It's very sad," Thompson said. "This poor kitty cat was deranged by its disease-riddled brain. I love the native cats. It was terrible to have to kill it."

I wonder if his wife feels the same way?

Once again we have proof that a college degree doesn't mean you have any common sense.

Who tells this guy to get inside when it starts raining?

I'm surprised the University trusts him with a pointed rock hammer.

MOONDAWG

Wyatt's right about that "mind set".
Trouble is, they probably would feel that way doubly about defending themselves against the two legged variant of rabid cat?
Ignorant pudknockers, all of life is not a seminar.

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Originally posted by RobO:
For my raccoon, I used my 657MG, and left the thing to cool down over night. The 215 grain swc penetrated center mass, and he only made it about 10 yards.

6" 686 125 gr. Remington SJHP x 4. It's ass was toast.

They sound like "tree huggers" to me. When I'm in the woods, I have AT LEAST a M-36 snubby on my belt. I do not think a .22LR revolver would be much good for....anything larger than a wabid wabbit!!!! Bob

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Originally posted by GatorFarmer:
From the article:

"It's very sad," Thompson said. "This poor kitty cat was deranged by its disease-riddled brain. I love the native cats. It was terrible to have to kill it."

Such an attitude likely explains why they weren't armed and why the poor kitty cat decided to eat them.

People like that tend to live shorter lives and produce fewer viable offspring. Thus, in a couple of generations the frequency of such behavior and attitudes goes down significantly.

When I'm in the boonies and something decides to do me harm the sight they will see is this...


Sometimes that's the same sight they can expect to see on the streets also.

Smitty

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Originally posted by PeterBergh2:

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Originally posted by GatorFarmer:
From the article:

"It's very sad," Thompson said. "This poor kitty cat was deranged by its disease-riddled brain. I love the native cats. It was terrible to have to kill it."

Such an attitude likely explains why they weren't armed and why the poor kitty cat decided to eat them.

People like that tend to live shorter lives and produce fewer viable offspring. Thus, in a couple of generations the frequency of such behavior and attitudes goes down significantly.

Well, maybe. Sure hope so. We need to encourage them to go out among the carnivores while they are very young, before they reach reproductive age. I'm thinking some national promotion, like a "Send a liberal child into the forest," campaign. My partner likes to say, "You don't have to be smart to know how to f**k." My grandfather would be so disgusted with the depths to which so much of our population has sunk...

Unfortunately, these two are examples of the Teachers at the University of AZ and they are the ones who are responsible for passing such "thinking" on to the nations youths! That's what is really frightening!!!

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Originally posted by PLW45:
I don't understand people. You would bring other tools when hiking, why not a self protection tool? Thank goodness for that hammer.

on a related note, I have heard that rabies shots are a b*tch.

I had the old fashioned kind, (in the stomach) about 30 years ago. The worst pain I've ever experienced.

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Originally posted by LaP:
They're the same people that get out of their cars to pet or feed the bears in our national parks.
They're also the same ones who walk into a dark parking lot while talking on the cellphone and looking for their keys.
They get weeded out over time.

Survival of the fittest.

Anything that can bite you should be killed twice. A school chum picked up a crow he'd hit with a .22lr. That "dead" crow gave him a nice v-shaped bite about half an inch long on a finger. Then it got infected!