Cecil killed with a bow and arrow

[Chalenge]

I say we clone the lions and let them use California as a lion preserve. Then the people that like to hug these cute little animals can enjoy that practice personally.

[SmokinLoon]

 

A: I dont agree with the situation, but some of you weepers need to put this in to perspective and jump off the bandwagon.... quick. Don't go off the deep end!

B: ISIS is beheading "enemies" of Islam and throwing gays off rooftops, Mexican drug cartels are doing similar atrocities....

C: Self titled "stoner Islamist jihadist" shoots up US military members. "Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner is a hero...

D: Planned Parenthood is selling chopped up baby parts for profit.... (Im pro choice, btw)

E: The US is taking a page right ot of Chamberlain's playbook and giving Iran nooks while backstabbing our Allies...

F: The license, fees, room/board, etc, to hunt the lion gave about $55,000 to the local economy when the local average income is about $235 a month... yeah, a MONTH. Think about that.

G: The "quartering" of a game animal is common. VERY common. I quarter and butcher deer, antelope, and elk for transport out of the field. A full grown lion is a big friggin animal. I would have quartered it too.  This "beheading" happened well after it was dead. Let it be...just  let it be. Dont make drama out of it.   

REALITY.... learn it. There are many other things to weep about. 

If in fact this "hunter" lured the lion off the game preserve then let the locals deal with it. By having Cecil gone, younger lions will be able to step up and mature and take his place. Just like the movie "Lion King". So stop your crying.

Now back to your regular scheduled cartoons..... 
 

[Chris79]

[IamSalem]

Yes, it's sad. Endangered animals should be secure.


Just don't let this distract from whatever the media doesn't want you to hear about. 

[SlipKnt]

I support Zack's rage rant. 

It is unacceptable!  And dentists are pure evil...

[Bodhi]

Only Asiatic Lions are endangered.  The World Wildlife Foundation does not even list lions as vulnerable, but another agency has.

Not really nice to be baiting it out of the sanctuary, but it is what it is.  For perspective, Isis has been killing scores of people every week, yet no seems to care about that. 

[bustr]

F: The license, fees, room/board, etc, to hunt the lion gave about $55,000 to the local economy when the local average income is about $235 a month... yeah, a MONTH. Think about that.

Unfortunately much of the fees go into middleman and bureaucrats pockets. In Africa wages are about a $1.00 a day for the grunts who do the real work in this industry. Enlightened outsiders from the first world have grants and can go home if things get too tough counting Lion noses.

I would suppose the preserve has yearly population control lottery hunts run through the government and licensed services. Cecil was lured off the property for $50,000 by a licensed guide and farmer with a yearly quota tag for his property because it was next to the preserve. Lion was not on his 2015 quota tag. On the preserve the guide services would have recognized Cecil only for being too old and near death, or a known nuisance Lion who went off the reservation and caused trouble.

[craz07]

I say a prayer for old Cecil so that he goes to lion heaven... he was a good lion that didnt deserve to be killed the way he was...

[PR3D4TOR]

For perspective, Isis has been killing scores of people every week, yet no seems to care about that.

Now that you've made that outrageous comparison lets follow it to its inevitable conclusion: We should bomb hunters in Africa and send in the SAS and other special forces to kill them?

Back to sanity: Seems we care a hell of a lot more about what ISIS is doing than what hunters are doing. ISIS gets killed, hunters get angry rants on the internet.

[bustr]

Effecting perpetual outrage today is a popular way to make friends on the internet, make money on the internet, and get away with telling people on the internet that you are more pious than the pope. And no one will have the nerve to ask them why they forgot to take their meds for the last month. Because all the other screw balls off their meds will spam your facebook and twitter accounts with hate mail.

Internet culture is like a teenage girl justifying dressing like a slut for Friday Mass. 

[craz07]

Effecting perpetual outrage today is a popular way to make friends on the internet, make money on the internet, and get away with telling people on the internet that you are more pious than the pope. And no one will have the nerve to ask them why they forgot to take their meds for the last month. Because all the other screw balls off their meds will spam your facebook and twitter accounts with hate mail.

Internet culture is like a teenage girl justifying dressing like a slut for Friday Mass.

ok what are you trying to say???

[Lab Rat 3947]

Internet culture is like a teenage girl justifying dressing like a slut for Friday Mass.

signature worthy . . . and very true 

and as for another male lion "taking over" Cecil's pride, the first thing they do is kill the cubs of the former alpha male, so that their line can take over. Standard behavior for lions. Sad but true.


LtngRydr

[icepac]

The obvious thing to do is make the hunter the prey.

[Lab Rat 3947]

The obvious thing to do is make the hunter the prey.

+1 

[PR3D4TOR]

To clarify my previous posts, I have nothing against hunting. Been hunting for many years myself. However, poaching is a despicable crime which hurts not only wildlife, but legitimate hunters as well.