Wildlife Federation

For hundreds of years, many different types of animals have been hunted all throughout the year. Animals can be hunted for their meat, their skin, or just to have a good looking mount hanging on the wall. Some say killing animals for a sport is inhumane, which I agree up to a certain extent. Domestic animals are a completely different story and I agree that killing or fighting animals such as dogs, cats, horses or any other "family pet" is inhumane. But killing animals such as deer, elk, turkeys, and any other type of animal like that is anything but inhumane. Hunter's have a certain season for each animal every year in which they can hunt for that particular animal. That way the whole population does not go extinct. Now if we were told that we couldn't go hunting anymore, wouldn't we be overpopulated by all these animals? Every hunt, I think it's either one or 2 deer that can be killed. If your caught with more than that, your in a whole lot of trouble because those game wardens do NOT play. Each year hunter's renew their hunting license and that money goes to the wildlife conservation effort. The land that is hunted on is payed for and is definitely not cheap and is also hard to keep up. When the anti-hunting groups start rambling on about killing endangered species, I agree that's not good but where I'm from we don't do that. We hunt only in deer, rabbit, dove, and turkey season and ONLY those animals. I'm almost positive that there are people out there that virtually annihilate predators by poising them such as wolves from killing there precious deer, caribou, moose and whatever else. I agree poisoning is a bit harsh. But shooting and getting it over with is a lot better, at least I think. But like I said where I'm from we don't kill those types of animals. We mainly focus on deer, rabbits, turkey, hogs and some types of birds. The anti-hunters need to quit whining about ALL the hunters because we're not all the same. Hunting animals that multiply very quickly is by no means wrong, we don't want to be over populated by things such as deer. Don't people complain when deer run out in the middle of the road and plow their cars? I agree that the bigger animals that are small in numbers shouldn't be hunted as often. But cutting off hunting completely would be a big mistake.  I think hunting is not inhumane if its used in the right way for the right animals.