Bullet ends bear scare on Wiggington Road<\/a><\/p>\nI’m not buyigng this line of horsecrap that the Lynchburg police department is trying to sell. You know, it’s a hell of a lot easier to just shoot the bear dead instead of contacting the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries, isn’t it? You know, it was Sunday night after all. Last year in Halifax County, the same situation was resolved by a DGIF operation which tranquilized the bear then released him to a far-away location deep in the woods. Result? One very much alive beautiful black bear, and nature was assisted by compassionate humans. However, that bear was sighted in the middle of a weekday when it was easy to get people to the scene. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
Unlike deer, which cause significant injuries in deer\/car crashes and where hunting is necessary to control the population, bears are quite content to live their lives posing an almost non-existent threat to humans. I support hunters and hunters’ rights but am totally against the hunting of bears for sporting purposes until it’s proven that an over-population of bears is causing damage to the ecosystem.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, this was a simple solution to a problem that could have been handled quite easily in a non-lethal way. There was nothing legally wrong with the animal control officer (and his Lt.) to say the bear “presented a danger if someone happened upon him” as it’s well within their job duties to do just that. That being said, it was morally and ethically wrong to cast an immediate death sentence on such a beautiful creation of nature. It’s a shame for this to have happened, but perhaps this horrible example of a bad decision may make others have a second thought the next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And I’m pissed about it… seriously pissed. What a waste of a beautiful example of wildlife. <\/p>\n
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