[Jacob-list] "Exotic" Jacob Sheep in canned hunt

[Carl Fosbrink]

    It is my belief that the majority of the people who kill animals at the shooting preserves are city dwellers that have plenty of money to spend and little knowledge of wildlife. They pay a large sum of money to stay in a nice lodge with good meals and drinks served to them and then are taken to a stand to shoot the animal of their choice. They may pay a couple thousand dollars for one day and night. It is not hunting, in my opinion, but maybe it will keep them off our farms. In Indiana it is dangerous to be out during deer season. We have so many people who come from town to hunt and they might shoot anything that moves.
The fact that this fellow in the film did not make a clean kill and his comments shows he is not a  hunter. Hunters and their license fees and clubs etc. actually preserve a great deal of our wildlife, pay for game wardens and wildlife preserves etc. and I have no problem with a quick kill as every animal we eat has to be killed, but we hope it is quick.
     In our American Jacobs early history the exotic sales are where Edd and Luther picked up a lot of breeding stock by bidding on the best animals for sale to use as breeders. The ram in the film had a nice set of horns, but was not a great overall flock sire ram.
     What really bothers me is the caged laying hens and confinement hog operations etc. where  animals entire lives are spent in misery. Humans also sometimes suffer for a long time in a nursing home before dying while the ram in the film suffered for maybe two or three minutes.
      An animal that is not fed and housed properly is also a concern so let's take good care of the Jacobs in our charge and try to keep this in perspective as it seems to be a recurring subject.

Happy New Year!
Carl
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neal and Louise Grose 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] "Exotic" Jacob Sheep in canned hunt


  I may be the only guy in my community that doesn't hunt. At 4 in the morning, I'm too busy working. I have good friends that help control the surplus deer on our farm. I think they killed 23 here last year, and we even had to get a permit to try and keep them from destroying the soybeans. These guys have said that they have no respect for those canned hunt shows when they are supposed to be "hunting" deer, much less somebody's domesticated sheep. And they would NEVER tolerate having an animal suffer. 

  Neal Grose
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Susan Nielsen 
    To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
    Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:37 PM
    Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] "Exotic" Jacob Sheep in canned hunt


    I don't object to killing the animal. After all, we do that, too, and one can imagine the meat from the ram made its way to a locker. What I found disturbing in this unpleasant video was that they didn't trouble to finish him, but stood there an crowed about how "awesome" it was while the ram was clearly still alive and "goin' down." Apparently no one even had a knife on hand. What a bunch of inhumane sh*theads.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZN6XtuCjr0


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