Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 10, 2023

Nature, not just man, culls. A bullet or a wolf. The weakest deer dies.

If God didn’t mean for us to eat animals, He/She/It/They wouldn’t have made them out of meat…

True hunters would use only penknives and their wits.

staring at the barrel, ain’t he!?!

Gainesville GA {and the surrounding area} is overrun with deer – wandering into gardens in the middle of town,grazing on the grounds of a military school – they have to be culled…

I’m not a hunter but I have heard that more deer are killed in Michigan by traffic accidents that are killed during hunting season ?

Real hunters (which is very near all that I know) are VERY serious about the limits placed when hunting. They’re very respectful of the nature around them and don’t hunt outside what they’re supposed to. I know there’s others out there that hunt wherever, whenever, sadly. I’m just happy it’s no one I know.

Between 1994 and 1997 I nailed 5 deer with a Chevy Astro van. State Farm is deer to me.

If you make it so easy for wild animals to live in your country, with few if any predators, they will starve themselves to death. If those wild animals are introduced (not native) when the country has had millennia to adapt itself to a completely different lifestyle, then they are likely to destroy habitat, and make it impossible for ALL wildlife to flourish. That has been the lesson hard-learned in Australia, with the introduction of rabbits, pigs, buffalo and unfortunately horses (particularly in our high country). We have also changed the agriculture so that most marsupials here think of pasture as some sort of smorgasbord. Yes, we shoot one of our national symbols. Kangaroos have proliferated to such an extent that they MUST be culled so that smaller populations can thrive, and remain an iconic symbol (along with the Emu) of our country.. Indeed, Bald Eagles, an icon in the USA and a symbol of the nation almost became extinct because of man-made interference. We Australians are not alone. Just thought you’d like to know.

Not always the weakest with bullets. I like hunters trying to justify spending thousands on weapons to save money because of overpriced food at the grocery store. 3 arrows $60.00 bows $3800.00, you couls feed the family for a year on that untill the rich become over greedy.

This lesson looks like it is going to come with a judgment.

Is there another judge? Can he get a change of venue?

Did anyone actually look up the definition of “culling”? Does not sound like it. Hunting does keep deer populations somewhat under control. But an awful lot of hunting in the US is not culling and often quite the opposite. And it certainly is not culling when hunters pay a ton of money to “hunt” animals on an enclosed farm like I hear folks brag about too often

Right now, Robert Blake is at the same podium only instead of a deer, it’s his late wife, Mary Ann. Payback is a witch, Little Beaver.

I hoped Covid would save Medicare. Unfortunately all those Granny Huggers, ie vulture capitalists who owned the nursing homes, brought in vaccinations to save their meal tickets.

Well, now that your hands are cold and dead, there is one more thing.

Another homage to Bill Watterson? https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/03/01

True but only “man” uses an AR-15.

Wiley has obviously never looked out a window and seen deer eating the produce in his carefully cultivated vegetable garden.

Without debating any ethics of hunting (I’m a meat eater and I like venison, but I don’t own a gun nor do I hunt), this is a funny comic today. Thank you, Wiley.

Wiley is showing just the one ‘check-in’ window. Seems to me there’d be lots more, like an airline check-in. Clerks would be checking everything from_’hold my beer_ idiots to the honestly, I didn’t know it was loaded jerks , to the all I did was look at my phone for a second drivers. The lines would be endless.

Oh deer!

As Einstein once noted, “In the universe, there are no privileged points of view.”

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, there was an amazing improvement. They brought it back to the way it used to be before overgrazing was killing it. One amazing side effect. Beavers were dying out because there favorite food (young cedar saplings, I think) were being eaten by the herbivores. The presence of wolves meant the herbivores stayed out of stream beds, the beavers are multiplying rapidly and doing their job of creating dams which create little ponds and every animal benefits.

Sometimes the alternative is that a herd dies of starvation.

When I’m culling Yoooooouuuu, oooow ooooooow, oooow , oooooooowwwwww.

Nice 8 pointer there.

UH-oh.

Jagermeister Deer ?

I prefer the word “harvesting.”

Not so. Hunters go for the biggest and healthiest looking game they can get. I’m not opposed to hunting per se, but don’t call it a sport unless you’re using your bare hands to bring down the game.

Check out the annual Darwin awards for the latest humans culling themselves

https://babbletop.com/top-10-darwin-award-winners-ever/

OMG!! Deer have cancel culture!!

I had a deer run into the side of my car while I was driving down the highway. It was around 10:00 AM, so it should have been in the woods, not running across a rural highway. They go absolutely berserk here while rutting during mating season. I stopped, but it was nowhere in sight.

They like to call it “harvesting”. Forrest Lucas, who’s so far right he couldn’t get confirmed for Trumps cabinet, fronts an organization called “Protect The Harvest.” No, it’s not about farmers and corn and soybeans.

Nature is way better than any human ecology projects. We killed off all the wolves in yellowstone and using hunting seasons to keep populations in check. It failed miserably. Once we brought the wolves back the herds started to flourish.

Whether it’s deer , seal clubbing, whales or any other killing for fun and/or profit , I seem to always hear harvest not cull. Fun with euphemisms, like “final solution” is much more palatable than…

Oh, deer, it wasn’t culling. It was gulling. Or maybe dulling. How about mulling….?

Social Darwinism = Fascism, and is not how evolution works.

Okay,they finally get to meet on even terms.

Have you tried finding a picture of a live elk on the Internet? I did a search for “elk” last week. More than 90% were people posing with dead elks.

I wonder at what point in history (according to the entrance requirements of heaven) did the rules change? Surely humans fighting tooth and nail to survive weren’t held to the same standards.

Cull him right on down to hell.

I’ve always been bemused by the word “harvest” applied to things other than plants.

Hahahahaha! Karma. Bravo!

Q: What do you have if you’ve got 50 female pigs and 50 male deer?

A: A hundred sows and bucks.

I am pretty sure his final words we not , “Oh deer”…..

His penalty should be being shot and field dressed and not losing consciousness and keeping his pain receptors active. Just 12 hours per day. Forever. And have the punishment carried out by deer. Heaven for them but not for him.

Amen…that special place in hell…

I have not ‘hunted’ since I was 9. I got shot at, and the sonic boom of the 30.06 slug and the sonic crack of its impact in the tree trunk I was leaning against blew in my right eardrum. Since then, I have shot destructive varmints, but nothing else.