I Love Crows

[KingPoker]

I give up, in the last week i have been seen as a shit stirrer and now i just seem to rub everyone up the wrong way so id better leave me thinks.

Good luck everyone!

[Tractor]

Each to there own mate, dont take things to heart when people say things on here.
The diversity of posters on Blonde is what makes it one of the best forums on the net.
WE NEED YOU! Especially if your a good shot

[tikay]

I give up, in the last week i have been seen as a shit stirrer and now i just seem to rub everyone up the wrong way so id better leave me thinks.

Good luck everyone!

We are just expressing opinions fella, no more, no less. We give it out, we have to take it.

You are fine with shooting animals, I am not, & I am sure the world is equally divided on the subject.

[Tractor]

Are you a vegetarian Tikay?

[tikay]

I dont like magpies, the only reason is a slefish one. There never used to ba any around here when I was a kid, now there are more magpies than any other bird, and they are awfully loud in the morning and sit on the gutter squawk and sqeek and wake my baby up, and I can hear them in the front of the house...

Dam birds.

Cant remember seeing a raven, and whislt on the subject of birds, do we have cuckoos in this country?

I read somewhere that Magpies are the most populous birds in the UK, but I doubt that's true. I do know they attack my cat!

Cuckoos in this country? You bet! They have the most remarkable nesting habit of any bird but that's another story.

[tikay]

Are you a vegetarian Tikay?

I was waiting for that question!

No, I'm a meat-eater, which is a real oddity when I think about it - which I try not to.

I'm quite ashamed to admit animals are slaughtered (horrible word) in abbatoirs (horribler word) for my benefit.

I guess that makes me a hypocrite, but all I knoiw is that I detest the thought killing animals, birds, fish, be it for fun, profit, or food. But I eat meat. I must admit to shuddering when I go into a KFC at how cheap a chicken's life seems to be worth. But I still eat KFC.

Makes no sense, I freely admit.

[Tractor]

Funny old world, init.

[tikay]

Funny old world, init.

Just a bit!

[AlexMartin]

Its all about respect imo. Ask anyone who shoots and they will tell you how important it is to respect your quarry. I shoot pretty regularly and have been known to get the odd big bag of tasty woodpidgeon. To my mind, going out and bagging enough woodies for a couple of pies or a pot roast with red wine is no different to going down to tesco's and getting some chicken breasts. The problem is us humans have become so detatched from the meat= an animal equation that we feel sympathy where we should be celebrating. At least my pidgeon had a cracking life till i shot it, which is more than can be said for the chicken.

Red-Dog, as i said at BB4, if there is a spare gun at my shoot this year i would cordially invite you to a day out.

[RED-DOG]

I am an animal lover. I think you know me well enough to accept that as a fact.

I was taught to hunt when I was a very small boy, long before I was old enough to make a moral judgement. I believe that this very fact contributed greatly to my love of animals and nature.

I hunted from necessity, I don't hunt now, but if it were to become necessary again I would have no qualms about killing something and eating it, it's natural. I think it's a lot more honest than buying some pre-packed, pre-cooked, sterilised, sanitised item from a supermarket.

I wouldn't kill something for fun, or because it wasn't intelligent enough.

There are as many different opinions on this subject as there are people, we have, within reason, to be tolerant of each other.

[Rod Paradise]

I'm another one of the animal lover/hunter folks, although I don't shoot much anymore (my Dad buggered up the sights on my Air rifle).

As people have killed off the apex predators people have to control the populations that they used to. Personally I'd be happy for wolves, bears, lynx to be reintroduced, but doubt the sheepfamers would.

[redimp]

Lovely thread Red

Magpies are my fav.

When we were kids I remember my gran after seeing a loan Magpie would salute it,and say "goodmorning captain hows the wife and family" But only if there was only one!

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for girl, four for a boy,five for silver,six for gold,seven for a story never to be told,or something like that she use to tell us.

[bhoywonder]

wish i had thoughts like u red

gonna look at the world in the abstract,from a different viewpoint from now on

and slow down, take in the bigger picture


breath of fresh air


sparrows...i hear they are leaving the UK in their flock ( apparrently out phone masts bugger up their radar )

[RED-DOG]

Sometimes people seem to go through life with their eyes closed. I feel like shaking them and saying "You're missing it, you're missing it"

[Claw75]

Who, rather than wait for someone to drop a crumb outside MacDonald's, will actually climb into the litter bin and open the discarded packaging themselves?