Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Wolves

A reader sent me this announcement concerning a hearing which I won't be able to make because I'll be picking up my mother at the airport:

Currently Federal Rule 10-J allows commercially licensed OUTFITTERS only to shoot wolves that attacking their horses, we non-outfitter licensed horsemen must simply sit and watch the wolves eat our horses.
On Thursday, July 19th at 6pm at the Boise Center on the Grove the US Fish & Wildlife Service will hold an open house on a proposed rule change to allow us peasants to defend our horses if they are attacked. The open house will be 6pm to 7pm and a public hearing from 7pm to 9pm will follow.
I can assure you, from my prior attendance to these meetings, that the pro-wolf eco-maniacs WILL be there in large numbers, trying to protect the wolves from any common sense rules. They will win if they outnumber us, so we need to get there early and sign up to testify and then just stand up and say you are in favor of the rule change because mere citizens need to be able to defend their horses and dogs. The wolf lovers will cry and whine about the little wolfies and if there are more of them than us testifying, then the law will stay as it is and we would be criminals if we defend our horse.
People who go to the woods, be it close by or backcountry, that have dogs and or horses ought to attend and fight for your right to defend your beloved critters from the sacred-cow Wolf.
I am generally prepared to let wolves be wolves, but if the choice is shooting a wolf, or letting it destroy a domesticated animal in the presence of a human being--I'm hard pressed to see why the wolf should have a higher priority than a horse or a dog.

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