Shooting birds
In Canada, Jennifer Helen Shenouda is shitting herself because a crow was wounded. Shot by an air rifle. Apparently in Canada, airguns are also cause to crap your pants. Said crow was transported to a non-profit rehabilitation centre for wild birds in Hudson. Transport occurred without struggle. Well, that’s good! I mean I was worried about the crow for a minute. Until I remembered it was a fucking crow.
Oh, and someone wants the air gun manufacturers there to, and I am not making this up, reimburse the non-profit rehabilitation centre for wild birds in Hudson for costs associated with rehabilitating the birds (which are mostly geese and I hate geese). No, really.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
My 12ga Benelli Nova Pump loves geese……
August 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I used to go after crows with my CO2 pistol that would try to steal feed from my grandmother’s hen house. Killed a lot of them, they learned to keep away.
Speaking of air guns in other countries, in Scotland awhile back, there was a freak accident with an air gun user not taking the proper precautions…the projectile ricocheted and struck and killed an infant on the street outside. Truly tragic, of course, but in no time some politician from the SNP (Scottish National Party no less) was calling for a TOTAL ban on all air guns, going further than even London was willing to go–now THAT’s really saying something, too. So much for Devolution leading to necessarily to more comparative freedom in Scotland…and such draconian legislation from the nominally conservative SNP! Just imagine if there was a knee-jerk, politically correct Lefty gov’t in charge…it was a bad day for Scottish liberty…
I think London saved Edinburgh from itself on that one and the ban didn’t go into effect. Yet.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:45 am
My comment for the person next to me when I hear about hearts bleeding over some random should-be-carrion:
Now, I wonder what that person thinks about abortion…
August 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Crows are considered a nuisance animal in Indiana and can be taken at any time without a hunting license by farmers – average Joes like me have to get a hunting license, but they’re legal season round.
I also hate geese.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am
there may be some reason to worry about folks wounding crows with air guns, depending on why they’re doing it. idjits shooting animals for no good reason, or just to see the animals hurt, are acting like sociopaths and might graduate to treating humans the same way if they’re not whupped back in line with the rest of humanity. gratuitously causing pain just to entertain oneself should not be cool, ever.
i worry a lot less about bleeding hearts who waste efforts “helping” wounded wildlife. heck, i’m one myself. on the whole, such actions do little harm, and at least shows a capacity for empathy — now we just need to make sure we don’t leave people out of that empathy and we’ll be on the right track. being a bleeding heart might be wasteful and silly, but it’s seldom dangerous. being an animal-abusing sadist can be a sign of danger.
…all that said, and i still have to note: the best way to rehabilitate a wounded canada goose is to wring its neck, pluck it, and cook it. do it out of my sight to spare my bleeding heart a bit, and i’ll provide the stuffing.
(why’re crows considered nuisance animals, though? seed stealing, mostly, i’d guess? they’re certainly clever enough to make themselves a nuisance, but other than that one, are they really big enough to do any real harm?)
August 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am
When I lived in Canada during Jr. High, I shot tons of birds with my air-rifle. Fun stuff.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I like crows, they eat geese eggs.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
“the responsibility non-powder firearms play in the maiming and killing of wildlife across Canada.”
Ummmm I understand you don’t need powder to charge your air rifle….but since when did it have any “Fire” involved?
I suspect a new term to demonize non-threatening words we all use like ‘BB gun” “Pellet Gun” and “Air Rifle” “Air Gun”.
“Non-powder firearm” is the new “Assault Weapon” sez I!
August 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
It’s going to be so easy to invade them.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Moral of the story – “Shooty things, whether or not they use gunpowder can hurt you. Follow the rules and you won’t shoot your (or anybody elses) eye out.”
I’m so sick of these animals being carted off to be saved. Possums, racoons, rats, geese… give me a break.