Belize Govt Shuts Down "cattle" Hunt

[Tim Smith]

Ok, I have to jump in here. Water Buffalo are not typical domestic cattle. while yes if you start with them at birth you can train them to pull a plow or cart. The wild ones are as dangerous as Cape Buffalo and will kill you if you encroach into their territory.

All manner of livestock can hurt you if you don't handle them properly. They're still livestock. These "hunters" are still shooting a cow.

In recent years some of the fighting bull breeds have been released near the border of America and Mexico and they can be far more dangerous than Cape Buffalo as these have no fear of men.

This matters why? It's hardly surprising some other idiot released an exotic domesticated animal into the wild where it can do more damage so some other idiot can go out and feel like a big man for shooting it.

God put them here for man to use

No. God put them in Thailand. An idiot put them in North America and Belize. Don't blame God for stupid stuff that people do.

[ozark trout fisher]

No. God put them in Thailand. An idiot put them in North America and Belize. Don't blame God for stupid stuff that people do.

Post of the year.

[Justin Spencer]

A canned cow hunt does seem pretty stupid, but I have participated (and enjoyed) canned bird hunts, and have caught and kept fish at Bennett, Roaring River and Rockbridge, and I really don't see a difference in any of these activities. The animals are raised to be killed and eaten and just because a water buffalo or cow is bigger it is no more of an animal than a bird or fish. So I for one can't condemn someone for doing more or less the same thing I have done albeit with fish and quail, pheasants and chukars.

[Fly_Guy]

Post of the year.

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[FishinCricket]

+1

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[Samkam1]

shoot em and eat em - they are so delicious and need to die somehow, why not get some enjoyment out of it!

SK

[Outside Bend]

If killing or exploiting domesticated animals is unethical, how is it you guys keep going to the trout parks?

[ozark trout fisher]

If killing or exploiting domesticated animals is unethical, how is it you guys keep going to the trout parks?

Well for one, I do have a hard time drawing a comparison between a 10 inch trout and a water buffalo.

And for another who said I did keep going to the trout parks?

[Tim Smith]

If killing or exploiting domesticated animals is unethical, how is it you guys keep going to the trout parks?

The question isn't about exploiting domesticated animals. The purpose of domesticating an animal is to exploit it.

The problem is with releasing a(nother) domesticated animal as an exotic into the wild and creating an industry to hunt it.

The trout parks are no great prize either, but they're not nearly as bad as establishing a new industry hunting for cows. For instance:

1. Water buffalo are yet another exotic in North America. Do we really need another problem from a feral domestic animal?

2. Stocked trout come from wild stock and their domestication is limited to increase their survival in the field. Water buffalo were never a wild animal. They're COWs designed to provide agricultural services. People MILK them, pull carts with them, plow fields with them and make them into steaks. There's no difference between shooting one and shooting a Herford.

3. Trout won't wander off, become feral then try to gore random people.

[3wt]

Well for one, I do have a hard time drawing a comparison between a 10 inch trout and a water buffalo.

And for another who said I did keep going to the trout parks?

I think the type of animal does matter. Why not have dog hunts or release some horses to go shoot up. Maybe it's all an emotional argument, but there does seem to be a line somewhere.