Cecil The Lion RIP

[Tail End Charlie]

I was surprised when I read you can legally hunt lions with the correct permits etc. I had presumed it was totally banned. Allowing it means some crook will always look to cash in.

 

[Dayvo]

Shhhhh! The rarer they get, the more pleasure some people will get from killing them and hanging their tiny heads on their walls.

PRICKS!

 

[winjim]

HuffPo reporting that PETA have called for the execution of the hunter involved.

http://huff.to/1IrmJw4

It's ridiculous hyperbole like that which makes me want to go and strangle a puppy.

 

[SD1]

I hope his business is destroyed as a consequence of this.

Very likely.

 

[SD1]

[QUOTE 3825423, member: 9609"]I think they should immerse him into a true hunting situation - parachute him and his crossbow into the middle of isisis territory - good sport amongst like minded competitors, by all accounts they also like cutting heads off as trophies.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure that they are like minded? I would think you would be giving them a nice bit of publicity by saying they are superior to an animal killer. I put a higher value on human life than an animals life, don't you?

 

[SD1]

I was surprised to find that lions are not an endangered species - not yet anyway. They are getting scarcer, and plans are afoot in America to stop people importing the bits of lions they have killed. I must say that despite that I can't see a clear or neat parallel between the deaths of farmed animals for meat and the killing of a magnificent wild creature like this purely for the pleasure of the act.

I think I watched a programme on this where game reserves were allowing hunting to pay for the upkeep of the reserve. Don't quote me on that.

 

[s7ephanie]

he is a real peanut ! i'd skin him alive bastard that also goes for anybody that hurts any animal x

 

[EltonFrog]

I can't begin to understand why anyone would want to hunt and kill an animal ifor sport or fun.

That man is a vile and despicable excuse for a human being.

 

[surfdude]

no thanks as he has guns and crossbows and likes killing things . oh hang on i will let you lot go first so he uses up all his ammo then i go and tell him how cross i am about him killing animals

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I don't have a blanket problem with people hunting, if that's what they want to do, particularly if they pay through the nose for it, but the target does have a huge bearing on how I feel. For instance, magpies fine, but lions no. I don't know how I'd feel if there were several million lions and only 30,000 magpies though. Confused probably.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Just had a look on his Facebook page. Methinks he'll be re-registering if he wants to continue on FB

 

[SD1]

From the company involved in the trophy hunt.
The same day Cecil was killed, the hunting outfit which ran the trip, Bushman Safaris, posted on its Facebook page: “Understanding how we as hunters do far more for conservation of our wildlife than anti hunters whom probably almost 100% have never even seen or been around our wildlife. Thank you and be proud to be hunters or understanding what we do.”

 

[Smokin Joe]

Rather sad, isn't it?

At least the guy who killed him now knows what it's like to be a hunted species.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Cecil, of course I meant.

 

[User169]

[QUOTE 3826357, member: 259"]What a sad bit of news. King of the beasts slain by fat twat with an expensive crossbow.[/QUOTE]

Nice gnashers though!