Big game hunting - horrible

pastalady · August 2013

A friend linked this on her facebook today: https://www.luxuryhunts.com/ I am really shocked people would do this. There are even pictures of families with babies and toddlers. Can you imagine seeing a baby picture of yourself next to the dead elephant your dad just killed? Wtf? I googled it and it is pretty disturbing. Can anyone justify this in anyway? Donald trumps kids have done it. Of course seems to be a rich white man thing. The most disturbing is where they say they will accommodate any special talents. What does that mean? Ugh, I am pretty disturbed right now!

roxy_jj · August 2013

OMG that is so disgusting. It makes me really sad that anyone would pay money to do that.

kcisthebombdotcom · August 2013

So disturbed. I'm surprised its legal to hunt elephant and zebra.

pastalady · August 2013

Seems like its legal everywhere but Kenya. I am just shocked!

Cherryblossoms07 · August 2013

I know a few people that have done these types of hunts. I am guessing talents are things like if the person wants to hunt by bow, wants to track their own animals (since there is a guide who most likely does it for most people), etc. It is definitely not my kind of thing.

barnwife · August 2013

Eh...we have pictures of J. with some raccoons DH got when J. was super tiny. It cracks us up because J. was a tiny, tiny baby and it makes the raccoons look much bigger than they are.

While I/we wouldn't do a hunt like that, I am not sure why it would be any different.

rockyrollgirl · August 2013

Nevermind...I just can't right now

Arnegard · August 2013

barnwife said:

Eh...we have pictures of J. with some raccoons DH got when J. was super tiny. It cracks us up because J. was a tiny, tiny baby and it makes the raccoons look much bigger than they are.

While I/we wouldn't do a hunt like that, I am not sure why it would be any different.

We have pictures of the girls and DH after pheasant hunting.

pastalady · August 2013

I know it shouldn't be but i have no issue with regular hunting. Maybe because elephants seem so human to me. That video that went around, where the elephant lost her baby and all the elephants stood in line to rub their trunks over the baby. It seems these are the most majestic creatures on earth and the idea of hunting them when their numbers are dwindling feels so wrong.

kcisthebombdotcom · August 2013

barnwife said:

Eh...we have pictures of J. with some raccoons DH got when J. was super tiny. It cracks us up because J. was a tiny, tiny baby and it makes the raccoons look much bigger than they are.

While I/we wouldn't do a hunt like that, I am not sure why it would be any different.

I don't mind hunting if someone is hunting a deer and eats venison. Hunting an animal that's an endangered species for bragging rights I judge hard.

pastalady · August 2013

Also, the idea that these people are paying upwards of 50,000 to do this rubs me wrong. From what I saw its mostly white business owners and guides. It doesn't look like the local community is benefiting.

joyfullyfound · August 2013

Ugh, that makes my heart so sad. I can more stomach hunting fowl and the like when the populations are abundant for eating purposes, but hunting animals whose numbers and natural habitat is already dwindling, just for sport? Makes me angry. Both that it's allowed AND that anyone would want to, you know?

Dochas · August 2013

KC_13 said:

So disturbed. I'm surprised its legal to hunt elephant and zebra.

Well I ate zebra in a restaurant in Kenya so I don't think it's that unusual. I think of them more like deer than like elephants. My BIL has gone along on a hunt and I was pretty disgusted by it. He didn't pull the trigger but was there for the whole thing. They don't just shoot the first thing they see. It is regulated in some way and the meat is used by the villagers. I still think it's horrible.

thechickencoop · August 2013

NandaB said:
Yea...my dad and husband hunt for game birds and deer. The difference is that they eat the meat of the animals they kill. I agree that this seems really wrong and unnecessary.

Ditto this - DH is a big hunter and fisher, he does it for sport, but also for food. He loves both and we generally have a freezer stock of venison and fish all year long. It's nice because I don't buy any red meats at the store and normally don't have to buy fish either!

But just for sport....THAT I don't get. Doesn't seem fair especially for endangered or threatened animals. If the meat and whatnot is being used though...then, eh. ::shrugs::

kcisthebombdotcom · August 2013

KC_13 said:

So disturbed. I'm surprised its legal to hunt elephant and zebra.

Well I ate zebra in a restaurant in Kenya so I don't think it's that unusual. I think of them more like deer than like elephants. My BIL has gone along on a hunt and I was pretty disgusted by it. He didn't pull the trigger but was there for the whole thing. They don't just shoot the first thing they see. It is regulated in some way and the meat is used by the villagers. I still think it's horrible.

Aren't zebras endangered (or at least not as plentiful as deer)?

Dochas · August 2013

scatteredtrees said:

KC_13 said:

KC_13 said:

So disturbed. I'm surprised its legal to hunt elephant and zebra.

Well I ate zebra in a restaurant in Kenya so I don't think it's that unusual. I think of them more like deer than like elephants. My BIL has gone along on a hunt and I was pretty disgusted by it. He didn't pull the trigger but was there for the whole thing. They don't just shoot the first thing they see. It is regulated in some way and the meat is used by the villagers. I still think it's horrible.
Aren't zebras endangered (or at least not as plentiful as deer)?

Some species of zebra are endangered, but not all of them.

I had not heard that before about zebra. It's more than 10 years since I was in Africa though so maybe it has changed too. It wasn't offered as a big expensive delicacy, just another meat.

pastalady · August 2013

I think it's mostly for sport. Some things say the meat is given to the villages, which would make it better. But they do have something called rhino darting. I guess they cannot legally kill the rhinos but they can shoot them with darts. Wtf? Wouldn't the stress on such an endangered species be bad for breeding?

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