That eye for an eye thing might work out pretty well. Let's see how many owls that guy would kill if we cut off his feet with a lopper. Steve Hughes -----Original Message----- From: Christina Voise Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 3:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] snowy owl habituation and hunting I want to second Nancy's statement about snowy owls - that people will kill one if they really want to whether it is habituated or not. And my observation is that this applies to wildlife in general. Years ago I had an acquaintance tell me about an old fellow who set baited leghold traps on the tops of fenceposts to trap great horned owls that were killing his chickens. I was told that once the owls were trapped, he cut the owls' feet off with loppers. Of course the owls would then starve to death. I have also had (so-called) hunters tell me that they would shoot mourning doves for "target practice" back in the days before dove hunting was legal in Ohio. And I have seen trappers leave animals to die in leghold traps - and then toss the body aside without harvesting the pelt once they finally came to check the trap. There seems to be no limit to how low humans can sink. So I have a hard time condemning people who want to feed starving snowy owls. If humans had not so altered the landscape south of the owls' normal habitat, they might stand a better chance when they are forced to migrate here. I do agree with Tom Bain that we must do all we can to conserve habitat for wildlife. No amount of feeding will substitute for that. But I'm not sure how we will ever weed out the folks who deliberately harm wild animals. Christina Voise Delaware County On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, nancy ortman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I believe that if someone wants to kill a snowy owl, they will do it > whether it is habituated or not. When I was a kid, I saw a boy kill a pure > white snowy owl with his pellet gun in Columbiana county. It was warm > weather, like early fall. The owl was not expected to be around then. I > believe he is the only person who knew of it. I was a beautiful creature, > and I thought it was such a shame. Hadn't seen one again until this year, > 45 years later. > > Nancy Ortman > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]