Deer

Canadian police officer kills an injured deer with an axe in suburbia on video

Canadian police officer kills a deer with an axe in suburbia on video in plain sight

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NEWS AND COMMENT: I am very critical of these police officers’ behavior and police behavior generally in this post. This is sheer horror and the horror was committed by a police officer of the Ontario Provincial Police. A resident, Marcey Danae, saw the brutal killing and videoed it. This is the mentality of some police …

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Mark Skage rescued a moose calf and it cost him his job

Petroleum lorry driver sacked for giving a moose calf a lift in his cab

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NEWS AND VIEWS – BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: There are a few interesting aspects to this story. Firstly, it’s rather strange because Mark Skage is a hunter based on what I see on his Facebook page. He likes to shoot animals for fun but showed real compassion to a moose calf and it cost him his …

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Fawn snuggles up to a deer shooters practice model

Fawn cuddles up to a shooter’s smashed deer target model thinking it’s her mother

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A fawn snuggles up to a sport hunter’s target practice deer thinking that it is her mother as her real mother has been shot by the same deer hunters!! A picture which tells a story of human misbehavior on a gargantuan scale. Nothing makes me sadder and makes my tears flow faster than this picture! …

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Fawn suckles on the ear lobe of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line because they've lost their mother

Fawn suckles on the ear lobe of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line

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The Ukrainian armed forces public relations department – Defense of Ukraine on Twitter – should be using this. Maybe they are. This sort of video is normally published on the Defense of Ukraine Twitter feed but not this time as far as I can tell. It shows a fawn suckling on the ear lobe of …

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I'm smarter than them

Less herd-dependent individual animals are more intelligent and innovative

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For me, this is a scientific study which has resulted in a common-sense conclusion but it deserves to be stated. Scientists at the universities of Barcelona and Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany came to the conclusion that the more independent and less herd-dependent an individual animal is the more …

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Muntjac deer

Suggestions to shoot muntjac deer in the UK as they are pests

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Ali Hussain, writing for The Sunday Times, is fed up with muntjac deer and he has suggested that they are shot and eaten. But he admits that there are problems with the suggestion. Firstly, he tells us that he bought a home in Norfolk close to the Waveney River because he had harboured for a …

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Sport hunter pets deer he was about to shoot as it befriends him

Sport hunter pets deer he was about to shoot as it befriends him

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This video is an example, for me, of the desire for peace overriding the desire to do violence and it was instigated by the animal not the human! Instructive to humankind. Perhaps Putin could learn something from this video. The deer wants a peaceful coexistence with the human who happens to be trying to kill …

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Stag hunter shoots exhausted stag at close range and then slit its throat while other watched

Hunters shoot exhausted stag at close range after 3-hour chase with dogs

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NEWS AND COMMENT: Background info: In the UK, the Hunting Act 2004 (the ‘Act’) outlawed the hunting of mammals with dogs. However, there are exemptions, and it is these exemptions which provide loopholes to unscrupulous fox and deer hunters in their countryside pastimes. The Act allows hunters to use up to 2 dogs to (1) …

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RHS Bridgewater during construction

9 deer shot to get them off RHS Garden Bridgewater

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SALFORD-NEWS AND COMMENT: The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are building England’s fifth national RHS garden on the 154-acre site of Worsley New Hall. It is called RHS Garden Bridgewater and it’s intended to be a “beautiful green place to enjoy all year round”. The construction is extensive as you can see from the photograph but …

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