Wolf Attacks a Deer, Disturbing Images
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Instead of shooting pictures he should have been shooting his shotgun, and ended the deers misery. Even though he was only using bird shot, I assume because he was grouse hunting, a very close head shot would have put a end to the deers suffering. 0 -
Thanks for posting this.
I was in the woods the day before hunting season opened a few years back and while I was watching a couple does and half grown fawns in a clear cut I was able to watch three coyotes trying to get at the fawn. The does made a circle around the younger ones and when the coyotes came in under about 20' the does would charge and kick the coyotes with their front hooves. It was an excellent nature show and the coyotes finally got tired of getting kicked and left after about 1/2 hour of trying.
I also glassed and spotted the Big Racked 4X5 Buck Muley bedded down on the upper end of the clear cut about 10' into the shadows of the still standing timber. I think he was watching the show also.0 -
Larger animals are eaten alive by wolfs and wild dogs, Brutal
In Africa the wild dogs have fur that looks like military camo, very cool. They would never have gotten this much eaten as a bigger prey would take the game before this point. Lions kill much more humanly as they go for the throat and suffocate their prey.
Watching lions hunt and eat is an incredible thing. I was photographing a lioness who seemed to be posing when she saw a warthog. She went flat to the ground and I grabbed one shot (below). I looked up as she went from a dead stop to Blitz-cat and I could barely follow here with my eyes and no chance to get my lens back on her. They disappeared into thicker brush in a heart beat. The warthog moved so fast his legs were a blur and he looked like he was hovering across the ground. Life seems tranquil their but death comes in blinding speed.
Wulfmann
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I couldn`t have walked away leaving that doe alive to suffer. 0 -
Why didn't he put the thing down.[V][:(!] 0 -
This is nature. Still, I would have put the deer down. 0 -
Dumb dogs left the tender loins.[:p] 0 -
At the very least I would have put the deer out of its misery. Yes nature is cruel but that does not mean I have to stand by and watch something like that happen. As far as the "hunter" is concerned, I have far more respect for the wolf than I do him. I have hunted since I was 4 years old and was taught that you did not take shots that were not humane shots and to kill as quickly as possible to avoid the suffering of the animal. The wolf has his predatory instincts and can be forgiven, but the "hunter" is at best a self serving jerk and I would have told him so in a hurry. 0 -
amen to that,[:D] pinhead! 0 -
The guy said he didn't kill the deer because he didn't want to get his scent near the deer, and run the wolf off, for this would mean the deer would be wasted.
This guy has little understanding of the ways of the woods. If the wolf never came back, there would be many animals which would eat that carcass, such as porcupines and raccoons, bears, crows, and even some eagles, I believe, eat carrion, not to mention buzzards.
Even if no animal ate a carcass [an impossibility], the protein and nitrogen and calcium would go into the soil, and healthy grass would grow, and next year a deer would come by and eat that grass.
I can't see how that man could stand there and let that poor deer suffer.0 -
I think PETA should boycott wolves.
Clouder..0 -
You all are so very quick to say he shoulda put the doe down. I have to admit that the thought crossed my mind as well. Suppose it wasn't deer season, suppose he had no tag in his pocket for a doe, suppose he did decide to end her suffering, suppose a game warden was 100yds downstream watching the entire thing, suppose now he has no firearm, no truck, and no hunting license for the next 3-5 yrs. It happens.
This is natures way, if the wolf never returned to eat, then it became a buzzards meal, a opussums meal, a bobcats meal, even a meal for a fly.0 -
He had photos of the entire event. I have worked with four or five game wardens in Georgia, and knew them on a first name basis. None of them would have given a ticket for such a mercy killing.
If the guy had run across the one warden in a million who was a big enough jerk to write the ticket, the photos would have gotten him off in court.
I would have killed that deer without a second thought. With birdshot, a lung shot at 15 feet is guaranteed instant death.0 -
And in doing so you deprive a young bobcat, wolf, coyote, or whatever a valuable lesson in getting a meal. 0 -
Had he not been there, this would have happened just the same. Nobody would have been there to put it out of it's misery. Who knows how many times this scenario plays out and no human ever witnesses it? Probably trillions of times on Earth in the last few hundred years. It is a shame to see that indeed, but if man didn't cause it, I don't see why man should intervene. 0
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