Pelicans found with slashed pouches

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:00 pm

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/04/15/pe ... index.html

Four pelicans have been found in recent weeks with their pouches slashed, wildlife officials said.

That's just wrong.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:07 pm

That sucks.

People who do stuff like this need to have a finger choped off or something.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:21 pm

i believe people who brutalize animals like that should be profiled and tracked like sex offenders.

i think that kind of behavior shows the same kind of dangerous propensity as people who can sexually violate another person.... only in this case, it's the ability to cross the line of sadism/torture upon another person or creature. making the step from animals to humans isn't really that big. i sure as hell would want to know if there's a sicko like that living in my neighborhood.

sito · Post by **sito** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:23 pm

I can't comprehend people being cruel to animals. Especially when an animal loves you and your cruel to it. I'm with you on this Faust.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:24 pm

sito wrote:I can't comprehend people being cruel to animals. Especially when an animal loves you and your cruel to it. I'm with you on this Faust.

Just a few steps away from being a serial killer some of these clowns are

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:36 am

Faust wrote:i believe people who brutalize animals like that should be profiled and tracked like sex offenders.

i think that kind of behavior shows the same kind of dangerous propensity as people who can sexually violate another person.... only in this case, it's the ability to cross the line of sadism/torture upon another person or creature. making the step from animals to humans isn't really that big. i sure as hell would want to know if there's a sicko like that living in my neighborhood.

Prolly where serial killers start.

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:01 am

EvilAngel · Post by **EvilAngel** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:03 am

Faust wrote:i believe people who brutalize animals like that should be profiled and tracked like sex offenders.

i think that kind of behavior shows the same kind of dangerous propensity as people who can sexually violate another person.... only in this case, it's the ability to cross the line of sadism/torture upon another person or creature. making the step from animals to humans isn't really that big. i sure as hell would want to know if there's a sicko like that living in my neighborhood.

In a 100% agreement there with you!

They'd probably get harrassed more than the freaking pedophiles....

Brandon_k_W · Post by **Brandon_k_W** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:23 am

hmm, just can't feel sorry for pelicans

sito · Post by **sito** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:27 am

Brandon_k_W wrote:hmm, just can't feel sorry for pelicans

If it affected your paycheque, would it make you feel any different?

cho · Post by **cho** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:19 am

Up here in BC we have Bald Eagles who are being poached just for their tail feathers and talons. Wilf life officials have found 60+ slaughtered Eagles in shallow graves.

sito · Post by **sito** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:27 am

*cho* wrote:Up here in BC we have Bald Eagles who are being poached just for their tail feathers and talons. Wilf life officials have found 60+ slaughtered Eagles in shallow graves.

and that species becomes a legend to our kids. Them crazy scientist dudes say a lot too but we all know their full of chit and are only after grants. We're smarter than that eh.

sito · Post by **sito** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:35 am

Brandon_k_W wrote:hmm, just can't feel sorry for pelicans

I wanna remove your bottom jaw and say the same. Sorry you can't eat, what a fvcking shame.

Brandon_k_W · Post by **Brandon_k_W** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:44 am

sito wrote:I wanna remove your bottom jaw and say the same. Sorry you can't eat, what a fvcking shame.

You think that's bad? Chickens are the worst treated animals EVER. Remember that the next time you bite into an Egg McMuffin from McDonald's.

Feeling sorry for a Pelican is like feeling sorry for a single ant. Remember that next time also, when you have a trillion ants covering your last-night-leftovers on the counter.

The only pets I feel sorry for are house pets.

sito · Post by **sito** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:56 am

Brandon_k_W wrote:You think that's bad? Chickens are the worst treated animals EVER. Remember that the next time you bite into an Egg McMuffin from McDonald's.

Feeling sorry for a Pelican is like feeling sorry for a single ant. Remember that next time also, when you have a trillion ants covering your last-night-leftovers on the counter.

The only pets I feel sorry for are house pets.

I see your point but I don't eat that sewage. Also, It's our job as a dominant species to see that others are allowed to exist as well. Maybe that's where we disagree.

I may have you all wrong, but as of now, if Coke killed pellicans, you'd be having a Coke at the beach.

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:18 am

*cho* wrote:Up here in BC we have Bald Eagles who are being poached just for their tail feathers and talons. Wilf life officials have found 60+ slaughtered Eagles in shallow graves.

One of the highlights of my fishing trips to Canada....has been to have the eagles swoop down close enough to toss them a fish..they are such gorgeous creatures of nature. We have a few here in Northern California as well...two were found last year...just off the Sacramento River...down in the canyon...where they had made their home...shot...and left.

I guess I just do not understand how people can be so ignorant.

westy · Post by **westy** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:31 am

Pelicans are notorious for eating HUGE amounts of fish. Up here in Minnesota where walleyes are heavily stocked, pelicans are blamed for basically eating an entire stocking that's done by the DNR. I've seen flocks of them on the water feeding away. I know their not too well liked by the folks up here who fish walleyes allot. (Me included). BUT, I would never shoot one or harm one. I see it as nature taking its course. (Their feeding that is....)

I also know of plenty of ranchers in the Dakotas that blast every eagle they see because the golden eagles out there will eat small lambs and the pheasants they raise.

Sad..........

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:48 am

westy wrote:Pelicans are notorious for eating HUGE amounts of fish. Up here in Minnesota where walleyes are heavily stocked, pelicans are blamed for basically eating an entire stocking that's done by the DNR. I've seen flocks of them on the water feeding away. I know their not too well liked by the folks up here who fish walleyes allot. (Me included). BUT, I would never shoot one or harm one. I see it as nature taking its course. (Their feeding that is....)

I also know of plenty of ranchers in the Dakotas that blast every eagle they see because the golden eagles out there will eat small lambs and the pheasants they raise.

Sad..........

Lakeville huh? ... Bloomington here

we got so many damn lakes i don't Pelicans being a huge problem here

westy · Post by **westy** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:40 pm

Izzo wrote:Lakeville huh? ... Bloomington here

we got so many damn lakes i don't Pelicans being a huge problem here

In the metro you don't see too many of them, but in southern Minnesota where I grew up, you see large flocks of them sitting down on some of the lakes.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:49 pm

Saw it on the News and it pisses me off.

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:26 pm

Faust wrote:i believe people who brutalize animals like that should be profiled and tracked like sex offenders.

i think that kind of behavior shows the same kind of dangerous propensity as people who can sexually violate another person.... only in this case, it's the ability to cross the line of sadism/torture upon another person or creature. making the step from animals to humans isn't really that big. i sure as hell would want to know if there's a sicko like that living in my neighborhood.

i agree.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:58 pm

That crap makes me sick, humans are truely the most disgusting animals on this planet seriously.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:59 pm

wee96 wrote:That crap makes me sick, humans are truely the most disgusting animals on this planet seriously.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:48 pm

i just wanted to clarify my standpoint.....

IMO, there is a difference between raising animals who will soon be killed for the sake of food and/or leather and whatnot, and some jackoff going out to only to torture or defile or cause great pain to another creature.

raising cows and chickens and pigs and sheep and such in poor conditions has a purpose...... to feed our species. some think it;s ok, some don't.... thats why we have vegetarians and vegans, whose points of view i can fully appreciate.

going out with an impliment of torture to brutalize animals is just sick. if they are your enemy or are interfering with your livlihood or spreading disease, fine..... KILL THE DAMN THINGS, but don't maim/torture. it serves no purpose but to satisfy a sick compulsion some people have..... a compulsion that worries me.

Broadsword · Post by **Broadsword** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:33 am

Faust wrote:i believe people who brutalize animals like that should be profiled and tracked like sex offenders.

i think that kind of behavior shows the same kind of dangerous propensity as people who can sexually violate another person.... only in this case, it's the ability to cross the line of sadism/torture upon another person or creature. making the step from animals to humans isn't really that big. i sure as hell would want to know if there's a sicko like that living in my neighborhood.

Definitly, I always think of more extreme punishments but that is one that the general "sane" public might go for.