Bear meat ethics

[singleshot12]

yeah dont feed em too much at once. maybe 1/2 lb a day with other food

[runamuk]

actually if you feed raw you want to avoid all kibble and processed food as it digests differently and leads to gas bloat and blasting craps.....

The old Norwegian fisherman I grew up with would put all the fish scraps into canning jars and pressure cook it until it was basically mush. They had dogs that only ate this their entire lives with a few table scaps and they were healthy happy dogs even at 17 and 18 big collies not small dogs.  I fed raw for a while when I raised sheep and had lots of access to scrap meat, I also have made my own dog diets at times using meat barley and veggies cooked then frozen.  most of my dogs that haven't gotten cancer and even some that have lived to be 15-17.

If I was gonna do it again I think pressure cooking would be the way i would go.  My sister helps with drying fish for people and for the sled dogs, they eat a lot of dried meats up in the village.

[singleshot12]

actually if you feed raw you want to avoid all kibble and processed food as it digests differently and leads to gas bloat and blasting craps.....

Hmm? that's kinda wierd,never had that happen with my dogs. But I feed them alot of cooked rice and raw vegies with their kibble too..never over do the raw meat or kibble either

[Biggerhammer]

It's all Persenal ethics, I can careless what someone does with their meat and I won't preach or defend what I do with mine.  To each their own.

As long as we're talking about wild game meat.

Either/ Or... It's all the same.

[mountainman]

It's all Persenal ethics, I can careless what someone does with their meat and I won't preach or defend what I do with mine.  To each their own.

As long as we're talking about wild game meat.

Getting a might personal there..?

[Curly]

I used to be personally against shooting something and not eating it (like a coyote).  So, I didn't ever hunt them because it didn't seem right to kill something just for the fun of it. 

I have changed my stance on that because of the large amount of predators around.  I now don't have any problem wasting a coyote, wolf, cougar, bobcat, or even a bear for that matter as lonog as  it is legal to do so.  Any predator can be left in my book as long as it's legal.  There are just too damned many predators these days and if someone doesn't want to eat the meat, that is their choice and I sure won't judge them harshly for it.   (I might think they're crazy for not eating spring bear since it is so good in my experience, but it's their decision).

[mountainman]

Not many here have a problem with not eating a" predator". But in Washington state, it is illegal and wasteful to leave a bear in the woods. Eat it or not, you need to pack it out..

[Curly]

Not many here have a problem with not eating a" predator". But in Washington state, it is illegal and wasteful to leave a bear in the woods. Eat it or not, you need to pack it out..

Right.  In this state you can't leave anything you shoot.  But in some states you can leave Bears........(Idaho I know you don't have to pack it out).  In Idaho and Oregon you don't have to eat cougar meat.

[DOUBLELUNG]

I am not in favor of leaving meat in the woods if there is someone who would like to eat it.  That's my personal ethic.  I don't know anyone who would want coyote meat so am fine with leaving it, but it would be morally wrong here in WA to not bring out bear or cougar meat, when it is so easy to give away.  When I worked in Wyoming, where it WAS legal to leave bear and mountain lion carcasses, I suspect it would have been difficult to give that meat away, as there is so much opportunity to stack up as much deer, elk and antelope as anyone could want - and there is no tradition of eating those carnivores there.

[AKBowman]

Like others have said if you aren't going to eat it why shoot it?

Growing up in AK I had tons of opportunity to kill bears but never wanted to because you don't eat me up there. Can't even cook a piece of one without running the whole house out from the smell. They taste like what they eat and rotten salmon is pretty gross.

I've heard nothing but good things about bear meat down here. I would imagine so from the poo I've seen it's almost 100% berries and this is a great berry year so they should be extra tasty!