Pennsyltucky Red Neck
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Got to thinking about this.
I’m a country boy, and have many times helped with killing and butchering domestic critters. Cows, pigs, and a few fowl.
We have always done our level best to made it as clean and painless as possible.
But as far as that goes, I have also killed a few animals in defense of my garden and domestic friends, and my kids. Stinging insects, and venomous reptiles, skunks and such like.
That too is done as cleanly as possible. I never killed anything without justification.
Below is a link about other species killing other animals.
Link
Other than domestic tabbies and dogs, all other “killing species” seem to have an excuse.
Dad used to keep a few free range chickens, now and then we’d invite one or two in for supper.
But mostly we’d raise them and take them to a livestock sale for a little extra $ occasionally. But there were always about 8 or 10 “yard birds” and a couple turkeys, maybe a peacock or two.
(I made the mistake of buying an Incubator for The Old Man
)
Anyway, one summer we had every dang chicken that got wacked by a pair of raccoons. We read the story from tracks and placement of the victims bodies.
We had an old city bus we used for a storage shed. Setting on cinder blocks beside a chain link fence.
The Coons evidently chased all of the chickens under the bus, which had only one opening for them to enter/exit.
They cleared us out of 9. One went under the bus and chased them out. The other ambushed them as they tried to escape!
I just got to remembering this episode and decided to post it for fun and discussion’s sake. You’re welcome to share thoughts and personal antidotes.
I’ll add that in my 5 decades of hunting deer, I have only ever lost three that were hit with a rifle or smoke pole and not recovered.
I have spent quite a few hours on a blood trail, dropping a marker and going on to find the next.
It’s not a job i enjoy, but I feel that I owe it to the critter and myself. The ones I lost are burned into my memory, and thinking about what I should have done differently.
PTRN
I’m a country boy, and have many times helped with killing and butchering domestic critters. Cows, pigs, and a few fowl.
We have always done our level best to made it as clean and painless as possible.
But as far as that goes, I have also killed a few animals in defense of my garden and domestic friends, and my kids. Stinging insects, and venomous reptiles, skunks and such like.
That too is done as cleanly as possible. I never killed anything without justification.
Below is a link about other species killing other animals.
Link
Other than domestic tabbies and dogs, all other “killing species” seem to have an excuse.
Dad used to keep a few free range chickens, now and then we’d invite one or two in for supper.
But mostly we’d raise them and take them to a livestock sale for a little extra $ occasionally. But there were always about 8 or 10 “yard birds” and a couple turkeys, maybe a peacock or two.
(I made the mistake of buying an Incubator for The Old Man
)Anyway, one summer we had every dang chicken that got wacked by a pair of raccoons. We read the story from tracks and placement of the victims bodies.
We had an old city bus we used for a storage shed. Setting on cinder blocks beside a chain link fence.
The Coons evidently chased all of the chickens under the bus, which had only one opening for them to enter/exit.
They cleared us out of 9. One went under the bus and chased them out. The other ambushed them as they tried to escape!
I just got to remembering this episode and decided to post it for fun and discussion’s sake. You’re welcome to share thoughts and personal antidotes.
I’ll add that in my 5 decades of hunting deer, I have only ever lost three that were hit with a rifle or smoke pole and not recovered.
I have spent quite a few hours on a blood trail, dropping a marker and going on to find the next.
It’s not a job i enjoy, but I feel that I owe it to the critter and myself. The ones I lost are burned into my memory, and thinking about what I should have done differently.
PTRN
