Deer shooting was cruel
I wasn’t there and all I know about it is what I saw on TV, and read in this paper. Nevertheless, having been raised in the “wilds” of the high country of Okanogan with critters all around, I’m no greenhorn.
The sad, cruel (stupid!) case of an Idaho Fish and Game officer charging in and shooting and killing- after three shots- the tame neighbor pet female deer makes my blood boil. Most of all, however, it serves to clearly reveal the hypocrisy and stupidity of many government departments and officials!
Shoot a wolf that is harassing and mangling your calves and you will be in a peck of trouble with some government agency. Shoot and kill the grizzly bear that’s chasing you and/or your dog and you will be in about the same amount of serious trouble as if you’d committed murder! But when a lousy shot game “officer” comes in and shoots the neighborhood pet harmless deer, she is applauded and lauded by her big shot bosses.
And this is the kind of greenhorn nonsense we taxpayers are charged for? Wolves and grizzlies are just fine, but we must, at all costs, be protected from the danger of being killed by tame, pet deer!
Ken Campbell
Deer Park