[Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep

[JACI SIEHL]

Ok - I don't mean to make enemies but I do have a couple observations and comments regarding these hunts.  I kept quiet on the last round of postings about the hunt clubs, but I can't keep quiet any longer.
   
  First I think it very interesting that many of the sheep appear to have been freshly sheared......odd, huh?
   
  Now for the part many of you won't like.  Many of the rams in the pictures have horns that would not allow them to be registered and something none of us trying to preserve the breed would want to use as a herd sire.  So, that being said, what would have become of the ram if not at the hunting club?  Into someone's freezer, with the pelt and maybe the head processed and sold to a customer. 
   
  I use to hunt and really enjoyed it - but I now prefer to eat meat that has been humanly slaughtered and not taken by hunting.  That is my choice.
   
  I know that many more wild animals would starve to death if some of the populations were not controlled by hunting, or the predators would become too numerous and dangerous to man.  I believe in our right to hunt - I don't want anyone to take that away from me or anyone else.....my heart breaks when I think of some animal I am close to like Jacob sheep being hunted - but I can't be a hypocrite and say it is ok to hunt bears, coyotes, or mountain lions because they are eating our sheep and not think that the same should hold true for other animals.  I don't believe in waste in taking any life - I don't' even kill mice - I catch and move them.
   
  We all get emotional because we are close to this breed - but are they so different from the big horn sheep in the wild?  Remember in some cultures they wouldn't eat a cow if their life depended on it and in others horse and dog are a part of their regular diet.
   
  Hunting is a right and if we don't agree with it all we can do is not hunt and not knowingly supply animals to to be hunted.  Hunting clubs are similar to fishing farm-raised fish - whether in a big lake or some pond at the farm, but how many get emotional over catching a trout?
   
  OK - I'm stepping off my soap box now - I just hope you remember that an opinion is not the same as a right and we must defend our rights.
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