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Auctioning the death of a deer

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RockinSockBunnies · 08/03/2009 20:46

Just come across this on The Times website.

I'm so disturbed by the very notion that hunters are excited and competing for the prospect to slaughter a rare deer. The comments in the piece, denoting the glee that there's an opportunity to stalk and butcher a wild animal that looks 'different' to the others just beggars belief.

I completely fail to understand the attraction to deer stalking, but in these particular circumstances, I'm staggered . Why do people think this kind of thing is acceptable?

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LuckySalem · 08/03/2009 20:53

Sick Bastards!

nickytwotimes · 08/03/2009 20:56

Yuk.
I don't really have a problem with deer stalking but it seems a bit odd and twisted to be desperate to shoot a rare one.

PottyCock · 08/03/2009 21:14

That is fucking revolting - how base and under developed are the people who would bid on something like this? Did anyone see the Louis Theroux doc on hunters in South Africa?

They had one thing in common and that was that they were all as thick as pig shit.

Where can I register an objection to this?

PottyCock · 08/03/2009 21:45

Does nobody give a shit about this, then?

edam · 08/03/2009 21:49

how horrible. What a sick git that man is, talking about the deer being a 'freak' that deserves to die.

Hope he trips over his own gun and manages to shoot himself in the foot.

PottyCock · 08/03/2009 21:55

Me too. Tosspot.

CharCharGabor · 08/03/2009 21:58

What utter fucking tossers. It makes me

LynetteScavo · 08/03/2009 22:06

Bartle said he was now keen to shoot the animal: ?I?ve got two dates hopefully lined up next month. It needs culling ? it?s a freak.

Nice.

PuddingChops · 08/03/2009 22:09

Complete and utter ignorant bastards.

KingCanuteIAm · 08/03/2009 22:11

How many of these deer are shot every year?

What makes this one's life worth more (or less) than any other? Is it the fact it is white or the fact it is in the papers?

Perhaps it is the fact that its death is being sold? Well that happens to every game animal every time hunting rights are sold. The life of an animal is only worth what someone will pay for it - almost always has been.

This is not new, it is not news, it is just an unusual variation on the norm.

I agree that an auction seems a bit sick but hunting rights are sold at high prices or even auctioned every year, they give you the right to kill many animals - how on earth is this worse? It is STILL selling the death of one or more animals.

Stop being shocked about poor old pearl and think about the larger picture. If you are opposed to selling animal death then look at stopping the sale of hunting rights. Don't bleat about ONE animal who made it to the press because it makes it sound, alarmingly, like you think that it is ok for all the others - just not this one

expatinscotland · 08/03/2009 22:13

May the buidealaich be on whomever kills that deer.

It is the gravest of sins to kill such an animal in old Scottish mythology and lure.

Hopefully the curse will ring true.

PenelopePitstops · 08/03/2009 22:13

yes its a bit sick, yes its odd

but really there are far more important things to worry about

expatinscotland · 08/03/2009 22:15

it's a mythical creature. whomever kills it will be cursed.

LynetteScavo · 08/03/2009 22:15

There are always more important things to worry about Penelope - but if we all took that attitude there would be no mumsnet.

LynetteScavo · 08/03/2009 22:17

I think you should tell them expat.......but then it can't be that mythical as we've seen a photo of it.

AitchTwoOh · 08/03/2009 22:21

it's fair enough to wonder at the motivation behind being quoted as wishing to cull a freak without having to sign up to a lifetime of vegan shoe wearing, i think.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2009 22:23

It is in that it's a genetic fluke and not an albino.

A curse on both the owner of the 'stalking rights' and the killer.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2009 22:24

I'm telling you, it's the buidealaich they're messing with.

People may laugh. But stranger things have come to pass.

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 08/03/2009 22:25

Can it reproduce I wonder? would it be a problem if it did?

FAQinglovely · 08/03/2009 22:25

thing is if it had been shot in part of the general deer culling which occurs each year and then got to the papers I doubt there'd be such a fuss kicked up.

I was horrifed when I discovered the father of my BF as school used to shoot deer and crows (ravens). Then I learnt about the buggers pecking lambs to death, and the over population of the deer did need managing.

I still don't get those that do it for "sport" though.

dittany · 08/03/2009 22:25

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KingCanuteIAm · 08/03/2009 22:31

Aitch, these people talk about culling all the time. If you read the article it states that there is a problem with over-population of deer. Which means they will eventually be culled. Just like foxes, pigeons, geese and any other animal that becomes a problem.

As for it being a freak - it is! Yes his language made him sound like a real prat but, in nature, this animal would not last. Why? Because it is not made to survive the way other deer are.

Why are they rare? Because they are not they way deer should be.

I agree he sounds like a prat, I agree the auction sounds a bit pathetic but really, this is not a big deal.

FAQinglovely · 08/03/2009 22:32

but KC - ordinarily in during the deer shooting season it would be pot luck for the deers in the wild which survived and which were culled. This deer is actively going to be sought out to be shot.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2009 22:33

The family that kept Fyvie Castle didn't believe in the buidealaich, either. They do now!

KingCanuteIAm · 08/03/2009 22:34

Dittany, don't be silly. When you sell hunting rights you put a death sentance on every animal in that patch of land. A death sentance is a death sentance regardless of it being applied to one animal or many.

As for being awed or amased, yes it is awe inspiring and amasing, to me and to others here it would appear. It is also amasing to the stalkers/hunters. But they are people who shoot DEER. This is a DEER why on earth is it surprising they want to shoot it?

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