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Title: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 26, 2018, 10:28:32 AM




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Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: castie2504 on July 26, 2018, 11:14:21 AM
Terrible loss, I’m sorry that you and yours have been casualties of the political game surrounding wolves. Ranchers already face difficult challenges and they do not need another. I am with you, everyone has a right to protect their livelihood from any danger.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: nitroelk on July 26, 2018, 11:19:02 AM
  That letter is spot on. Only if everybody got it. good luck with that though, unfortunately the average west side, non hunter/outdoors person will think its B.S.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Jonathan_S on July 26, 2018, 11:50:01 AM
Beyond frustrating for the rancher.

Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Jonathan_S on July 26, 2018, 12:00:48 PM
This thread won't get as much attention though.  Not quite as good of material for making snide comments as when a DNR worker gets treed.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Rainier10 on July 26, 2018, 12:10:30 PM
Brutal.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 26, 2018, 12:18:45 PM
Just to clarify this is not my family’s ranch thankfully
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 26, 2018, 12:25:04 PM
I read this when it was released a year ago. It's just as poignant today. Our ranchers have been completely abandoned by our government. Every time that idiot in the Governor's mansion orders a steak, he should be made to read this.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Ghost Hunter on July 26, 2018, 12:56:58 PM
You got my attention.  Our new property is right in the thick of that.  Spotted a big bear on Diamond M land (I was on CNF land) during spring bear.  No wolves yet....
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: 2MANY on July 26, 2018, 01:49:45 PM
We have lost multiple calves on the family farm in Idaho.

Wolves being wolves.

It's pathetic.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: bearpaw on July 26, 2018, 02:09:48 PM
Sad deal...
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: nwwanderer on July 26, 2018, 02:42:23 PM
I have stated this before and am sure I will again.  This problem for the 800+ million dollar industry in Washington is not significant.  For individual producers it is devastating, emotionally and financially.  The agencies and wolf supporting groups could easily pay the actual costs, deaths, weight and reproductive loss and save money over what they currently do.  The emotional loss is beyond comprehension for any but the few with the loss.  Those animals are part of us, I understand you do not get it, you are wrong.  Give the wolf the same status as a coyote, we will deal with it the best we can.  It is a new reality and we have many.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: cbond3318 on July 26, 2018, 04:08:01 PM
Sorry for the cattleman’s  monetary loss.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 26, 2018, 04:18:37 PM
Sorry for the cattleman’s  monetary loss.
the money is not the issue. 
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: idahohuntr on July 26, 2018, 04:37:33 PM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk". 

Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 26, 2018, 05:03:54 PM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk". 


hefers are not sold for slaughter unless barren.  No one likes to see one of their animals suffer , food or not all of us try to kill quickly as possible.  Killing an animal does not bother me in the slightest. Seeing one suffer is a different story.  That is where the emotions come into play.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: mburrows on July 26, 2018, 07:32:14 PM
Need to get more of these stories out to the public.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: wolfbait on July 26, 2018, 09:06:17 PM
The main reason many livestock producers no longer notify WDFW, it is less expensive to take care of predator problems without the USFWS or WDF&Wolves prolonging the slaughter.

Sad situation, imagine what the wolves have and are doing to the game herds, while WDFW play with their fake studies.

Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: bornhunter on July 26, 2018, 10:19:09 PM
Anything us readers/hunters can do to help the ranchers? I feel like such a dumb ass not being aware of this sooner. Always knew the wolves were devastating the big game herds but didnt give much thought to ranchers loosing their livestock until I joined here. Would like to help some way if possible.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: ribka on July 27, 2018, 04:02:57 AM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk". 


hefers are not sold for slaughter unless barren.  No one likes to see one of their animals suffer , food or not all of us try to kill quickly as possible.  Killing an animal does not bother me in the slightest. Seeing one suffer is a different story.  That is where the emotions come into play.

People who never owned raised and cared for livestock would never understand
Huge disconnect in our culture because majority live in urban areas and have no idea where their food comes from plus there is a lot of hatred for ranchers here in WA.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 27, 2018, 05:17:52 AM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk". 


hefers are not sold for slaughter unless barren.  No one likes to see one of their animals suffer , food or not all of us try to kill quickly as possible.  Killing an animal does not bother me in the slightest. Seeing one suffer is a different story.  That is where the emotions come into play.

People who never owned raised and cared for livestock would never understand
Huge disconnect in our culture because majority live in urban areas and have no idea where their food comes from plus there is a lot of hatred for ranchers here in WA.
sadly I believe you are correct.  They couldn’t completely understand without walking that mile.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 27, 2018, 05:28:00 AM
Why do you believe there is a hatred?
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 27, 2018, 05:40:26 AM
Hatred?  I’m not sure what your referring to
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 27, 2018, 05:45:03 AM
RIBKA mentioned a hatred for ranchers.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 27, 2018, 05:53:32 AM
That I don’t understand.  Where I live ranchers are not hated but I do see and hear a lot of dislike on the web. 
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Jpmiller on July 27, 2018, 09:25:38 AM
I can agree with the overall message but I'm on board with not trying to humanize the animals. The overall reason for any of these creatures is consumption and death, and while as human a lifestyle and death as possible is desired the end result is still death. Should my heart break when I take the mother, son, daughter or father of a deer or elk? Certainly the fawn I had to chase off so I could clean and quarter it's mother a few years back felt similarly to the mother cow in this story.

Wolves need managing and sooner than later. Cattlemen and anyone else for that matter have a right to reasonable protection from predation on their animals but I don't like trying to use the narrative involving the emotional hardships on an animals "family".

I've raised animals for personal consumption, cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: 2MANY on July 27, 2018, 09:54:47 AM
Hatred?  I’m not sure what your referring to

I believe jealousy is a better word.
Most people are jealous of the ranchers large tracks of land.

Others take issue with the ranchers BLM grazing agreements.

Haters gonna hate.
Basically ignorant people.
The same people you catch trespassing on the ranches and full of excuses when caught.
They are also the first to feel like they are entitled to trespass on large ranches but the minute the buy 10 acres out west the first thing they do is post it.

Like my dad has said for years, "California's right wingers will move to the Rockies and become the mountain state's new left".
So true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: WSU on July 27, 2018, 10:06:25 AM
I have to say that I wasn't impressed by humanizing the calf either.  The whole time I was thinking that if it was a bull/steer calf it'd have a little over one more year before it gets slaughtered.

I raise cows for meat (a hobby more than anything) and understand how you get connected.  Comparing a cow to a human girl is unpersuasive to me. 
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: 2MANY on July 27, 2018, 10:13:56 AM
I believe the rancher was attempting to put in terms that the screaming libertards could understand.
Not to mention most ranchers have strong family values.

Try to remember the new series Yellowstone isn't reality.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 27, 2018, 10:15:40 AM
I believe the rancher was attempting to put in terms that the screaming libertards could understand.
Not to mention most ranchers have strong family values.

Try to remember the new series Yellowstone isn't reality.
my thoughts as well. The letter wasn’t written for like minded people. 
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: tracksoup on July 27, 2018, 10:17:06 AM
 :yeah:
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on July 27, 2018, 11:40:37 AM
 :yeah: Agreed.   The letter does read like a liberal would write, but I think the intent was to attempt to convey the message in way others of a different mindset would understand. I can appreciate the attempt :tup:

  I grew up with cattle even as a young adult one of my saddest memories was of a grown cow having complications post delivery. I had raised her from a bottle and it was her second or third calf. She recovered but was high risk for breeding. From a working/monetary standpoint she was food. Its a difficult bond to explain. I didn't feel like I owed her or needed to  be there when she died like a good dog, and I knew she would fetch more per pound so it made sense to butcher and use or sell meat.  But I sold her at a loss to avoid killing her myself.

  Humanizing animals is different than being honest about attachment/emotion. IMO
 
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Special T on July 27, 2018, 12:07:31 PM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk".
So using an emotional appeal is wrong. Why is that?
Have the facts been persuasive for those that have no understanding of the situation? Is the whole debate about wolves a well reasoned and honest debate?

Six and emotion not only sells it has a greater chance of call to action. That is why the Anti hunter crowd  uses it, and why we should use it as well.

Saul Alinski rules for radicals
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

Of course the Antis wouldn't like us to use emotion... because we have  tried to argue facts to an emotional crowd...

How many of you are brave enough to claim you win most of your arguments with your wife?

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Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Mudman on July 27, 2018, 12:24:27 PM
 :yeah:  A wise man once said "Listen to T!".
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: idahohuntr on July 27, 2018, 12:42:49 PM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk".
So using an emotional appeal is wrong. Why is that?
Have the facts been persuasive for those that have no understanding of the situation? Is the whole debate about wolves a well reasoned and honest debate?

Six and emotion not only sells it has a greater chance of call to action. That is why the Anti hunter crowd  uses it, and why we should use it as well.

Saul Alinski rules for radicals
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

Of course the Antis wouldn't like us to use emotion... because we have  tried to argue facts to an emotional crowd...

How many of you are brave enough to claim you win most of your arguments with your wife?

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Where did I say emotional appeal is wrong? I said don't humanize cattle or wildlife.  Why do I say not to humanize them...because that perpetuates the Disney story myth that non-hunters will get duped into so the antis can more successfully vote away our hunting opportunities.  Don't play checkers in a game of chess.  :twocents:
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Mudman on July 27, 2018, 01:41:10 PM
But they are playing checkers, AND WINNING!!
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: 2MANY on July 27, 2018, 02:15:34 PM
People here argue with their wife??????

Kinda reminds me of the saying, "Sticken it to the Man".
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Special T on July 27, 2018, 03:02:52 PM
People here argue with their wife??????

Kinda reminds me of the saying, "Sticken it to the Man".
I personally  refrain... because any married man knows even when you win, you loose...

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Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Special T on July 27, 2018, 03:13:25 PM


It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk".
So using an emotional appeal is wrong. Why is that?
Have the facts been persuasive for those that have no understanding of the situation? Is the whole debate about wolves a well reasoned and honest debate?

Six and emotion not only sells it has a greater chance of call to action. That is why the Anti hunter crowd  uses it, and why we should use it as well.

Saul Alinski rules for radicals
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

Of course the Antis wouldn't like us to use emotion... because we have  tried to argue facts to an emotional crowd...

How many of you are brave enough to claim you win most of your arguments with your wife?

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Where did I say emotional appeal is wrong? I said don't humanize cattle or wildlife.  Why do I say not to humanize them...because that perpetuates the Disney story myth that non-hunters will get duped into so the antis can more successfully vote away our hunting opportunities.  Don't play checkers in a game of chess.  :twocents:

Part of the reason why we fail is because we reason and sell to our own level of understanding.  It's a natural failing of most people on nearly any topic.

Clearly what we have been doing isnt working.  The general public only reacts when they can see how it impacts themselves.  Many people have the Disney view of animals. Perhaps the way to shake them up is by showing how horrible it actually is by making them see both sides of "nature". Nature is more cruel than most realize...

Is it possible  the writer could have had a better pitch? Sure. But what is most important is we quit selling to ourselves and sell to the ignorant public... a sales job that is working for the antis but not for us...  we should adopt many of thier strategies.

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Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Mudman on July 27, 2018, 03:38:16 PM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: ribka on July 27, 2018, 04:09:00 PM
That I don’t understand.  Where I live ranchers are not hated but I do see and hear a lot of dislike on the web.

Should have more specific. Read any article about wolves and ranchers in the Seattle times, Portland news, Washington post, ny times etc and see how urban dwellers view ranchers and cattle . Very negative

Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: jasnt on July 27, 2018, 04:37:23 PM
That I don’t understand.  Where I live ranchers are not hated but I do see and hear a lot of dislike on the web.

Should have more specific. Read any article about wolves and ranchers in the Seattle times, Portland news, Washington post, ny times etc and see how urban dwellers view ranchers and cattle . Very negative


just like logging, I think(puts on tin foil hat  :tinfoil: ) the less people that care about public land the sooner they can sell it off.  Plenty of powerful people would benefit from the selling of public lands, so they push agendas that will help their end goals.  If you can’t hunt public land, if you can’t log public land, if you can’t graze public land, if you can’t rv public land, if you can’t recreate public land.....then who cares if it gets sold, after all its to expensive to maintain.  We all need to stick together in the public land fight,even those users that interfere with our interests at times.  Jmo on the matter. I’ve seen a lot of anti everything I listed above
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Tbar on July 27, 2018, 05:25:20 PM
It is a mistake for cattlemen or hunters to anthropomorphize cows or wildlife.  We all lose when we use tactics out of the animal rights playbook. 

He says "in human terms, she would have been a 5 or 6 year old girl-halfway between birth and puberty, with-hopefully-her whole life ahead of her"...so that's bad that the wolf killed her so young and he wants to tug at those emotions...then how does he explain when this calf becomes older, is loaded into a truck hauled somewhere, shot in the head and butchered to be sold off at market? 

To be fair...I bristle when I hear hunters who oppose late season cow hunts by attacking wildlife agencies with "you're killing pregnant elk".
So using an emotional appeal is wrong. Why is that?
Have the facts been persuasive for those that have no understanding of the situation? Is the whole debate about wolves a well reasoned and honest debate?

Six and emotion not only sells it has a greater chance of call to action. That is why the Anti hunter crowd  uses it, and why we should use it as well.

Saul Alinski rules for radicals
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

Of course the Antis wouldn't like us to use emotion... because we have  tried to argue facts to an emotional crowd...

How many of you are brave enough to claim you win most of your arguments with your wife?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
Where did I say emotional appeal is wrong? I said don't humanize cattle or wildlife.  Why do I say not to humanize them...because that perpetuates the Disney story myth that non-hunters will get duped into so the antis can more successfully vote away our hunting opportunities.  Don't play checkers in a game of chess.  :twocents:
:yeah:
I completely agree with Idaho on this.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: bigmacc on July 27, 2018, 05:30:57 PM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….

Yep :yeah:....For every picture of a wolf with its foot caught in a trap or wolf pups looking for their mom(but she can't be found because she was shot :'( :'() etc. etc. All of those "to the heart" ads that the antis use to get attention and sympathy for their cause should be countered, because it works, period. Start showing ads or plastering face book with pics of a fawn, a calf elk, cows, horses whatever, that have been attacked and been eaten from the rear end in only to be left still alive while they go find another. I didn't know this until awhile ago but a wolf apparently is the only animal on earth that "thrill kills", the pack will stalk and kill only to leave it dead or near death and move on to repeat over and over, they are teaching the young pack members how to hunt in a pack dynamic, they will kill just to kill. There is a reason these things were being eradicated at one time.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: wolfbait on July 27, 2018, 08:49:07 PM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….

Yep :yeah:....For every picture of a wolf with its foot caught in a trap or wolf pups looking for their mom(but she can't be found because she was shot :'( :'() etc. etc. All of those "to the heart" ads that the antis use to get attention and sympathy for their cause should be countered, because it works, period. Start showing ads or plastering face book with pics of a fawn, a calf elk, cows, horses whatever, that have been attacked and been eaten from the rear end in only to be left still alive while they go find another. I didn't know this until awhile ago but a wolf apparently is the only animal on earth that "thrill kills", the pack will stalk and kill only to leave it dead or near death and move on to repeat over and over, they are teaching the young pack members how to hunt in a pack dynamic, they will kill just to kill. There is a reason these things were being eradicated at one time.

 :yeah:

The problem is the USFWS their fake environmental pardoners brain-washed a generation plus, and WDFW etc. continue the same line of BS.

Posting photos of mass killings by wolves where they kill just to kill, or cows etc. with the calves ripped out and eaten the cow left alive to suffer, moose etc. that die a horrible slow death as wolves eat on them sometimes for days, it's an ugly sight. But it is what wolves do, there's nothing pretty about wolves and and how they kill. The pro-wolf side doesn't like these kind of pictures revealed to the public, it counters their sold image of wolves.

Many of the ranchers that are losing to wolves have lived their whole lives with their stock, caring for them year after year, they have a lifetime connection, and it hurts them to the core to watch a fake endangered wolf killing their stock, angers them that a corrupt USFWS and WDFW has overall say as to the outcome.

There are not near as many reports of wolf/livestock conflicts anymore, people have learned it only cost them money to contact WDFW, and wolf recipes are silent and cheap.

Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: bornhunter on July 27, 2018, 10:10:05 PM
I think thats a bit over the top"a lot of hatred for ranchers in Wa." I know a bunch of ranchers and a bunch of people who know ranchers and I dont know anyone who hates ranchers. Now if you are talking about out of staters and tree huggers who hates ranchers then sure. But those haters hate everything that relates to the old ways, ranchers, farmers, hunters, Christians, etc.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: ribka on July 28, 2018, 11:45:54 AM
I think thats a bit over the top"a lot of hatred for ranchers in Wa." I know a bunch of ranchers and a bunch of people who know ranchers and I dont know anyone who hates ranchers. Now if you are talking about out of staters and tree huggers who hates ranchers then sure. But those haters hate everything that relates to the old ways, ranchers, farmers, hunters, Christians, etc.

Here ya go, read the comments if you think exaggerated

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/with-their-cattle-grazing-in-washingtons-wolf-country-ranchers-work-and-worry/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/second-wolf-pack-targeted-for-killing-after-more-cattle-deaths/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/magazine/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf-scientist.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/resurgent-wolves-again-are-fair-game/2012/09/16/b8971306-fe73-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1f654656b406



Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: ribka on July 28, 2018, 11:48:06 AM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….

Yep :yeah:....For every picture of a wolf with its foot caught in a trap or wolf pups looking for their mom(but she can't be found because she was shot :'( :'() etc. etc. All of those "to the heart" ads that the antis use to get attention and sympathy for their cause should be countered, because it works, period. Start showing ads or plastering face book with pics of a fawn, a calf elk, cows, horses whatever, that have been attacked and been eaten from the rear end in only to be left still alive while they go find another. I didn't know this until awhile ago but a wolf apparently is the only animal on earth that "thrill kills", the pack will stalk and kill only to leave it dead or near death and move on to repeat over and over, they are teaching the young pack members how to hunt in a pack dynamic, they will kill just to kill. There is a reason these things were being eradicated at one time.

 :yeah:

The problem is the USFWS their fake environmental pardoners brain-washed a generation plus, and WDFW etc. continue the same line of BS.

Posting photos of mass killings by wolves where they kill just to kill, or cows etc. with the calves ripped out and eaten the cow left alive to suffer, moose etc. that die a horrible slow death as wolves eat on them sometimes for days, it's an ugly sight. But it is what wolves do, there's nothing pretty about wolves and and how they kill. The pro-wolf side doesn't like these kind of pictures revealed to the public, it counters their sold image of wolves.

Many of the ranchers that are losing to wolves have lived their whole lives with their stock, caring for them year after year, they have a lifetime connection, and it hurts them to the core to watch a fake endangered wolf killing their stock, angers them that a corrupt USFWS and WDFW has overall say as to the outcome.

There are not near as many reports of wolf/livestock conflicts anymore, people have learned it only cost them money to contact WDFW, and wolf recipes are silent and cheap.

Yeah that
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: Tbar on July 28, 2018, 12:53:05 PM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….

Yep :yeah:....For every picture of a wolf with its foot caught in a trap or wolf pups looking for their mom(but she can't be found because she was shot :'( :'() etc. etc. All of those "to the heart" ads that the antis use to get attention and sympathy for their cause should be countered, because it works, period. Start showing ads or plastering face book with pics of a fawn, a calf elk, cows, horses whatever, that have been attacked and been eaten from the rear end in only to be left still alive while they go find another. I didn't know this until awhile ago but a wolf apparently is the only animal on earth that "thrill kills", the pack will stalk and kill only to leave it dead or near death and move on to repeat over and over, they are teaching the young pack members how to hunt in a pack dynamic, they will kill just to kill. There is a reason these things were being eradicated at one time.

 :yeah:

The problem is the USFWS their fake environmental pardoners brain-washed a generation plus, and WDFW etc. continue the same line of BS.

Posting photos of mass killings by wolves where they kill just to kill, or cows etc. with the calves ripped out and eaten the cow left alive to suffer, moose etc. that die a horrible slow death as wolves eat on them sometimes for days, it's an ugly sight. But it is what wolves do, there's nothing pretty about wolves and and how they kill. The pro-wolf side doesn't like these kind of pictures revealed to the public, it counters their sold image of wolves.

Many of the ranchers that are losing to wolves have lived their whole lives with their stock, caring for them year after year, they have a lifetime connection, and it hurts them to the core to watch a fake endangered wolf killing their stock, angers them that a corrupt USFWS and WDFW has overall say as to the outcome.

There are not near as many reports of wolf/livestock conflicts anymore, people have learned it only cost them money to contact WDFW, and wolf recipes are silent and cheap.
Have you watched the pro wolf crowd in action? I don't think you'll get near the "shock" value you guys are hoping for. They spin things the way they want.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: wolfbait on July 28, 2018, 07:02:00 PM
Tear jerking stories of wolves evil carnage.  Pics of animals including Fido and Alleycat and horses/cows etc. should flood billboards.  Commercials.  Warnings of zoonotic diseased people etc.  Moose/Caribou extinction.  Do this and the public view would change very quickly!  It works, its their game, its only way to defeat em imop!       Every person with a Facebook should act this way.  Sorry I cant do fadbook….

Yep :yeah:....For every picture of a wolf with its foot caught in a trap or wolf pups looking for their mom(but she can't be found because she was shot :'( :'() etc. etc. All of those "to the heart" ads that the antis use to get attention and sympathy for their cause should be countered, because it works, period. Start showing ads or plastering face book with pics of a fawn, a calf elk, cows, horses whatever, that have been attacked and been eaten from the rear end in only to be left still alive while they go find another. I didn't know this until awhile ago but a wolf apparently is the only animal on earth that "thrill kills", the pack will stalk and kill only to leave it dead or near death and move on to repeat over and over, they are teaching the young pack members how to hunt in a pack dynamic, they will kill just to kill. There is a reason these things were being eradicated at one time.

 :yeah:

The problem is the USFWS their fake environmental pardoners brain-washed a generation plus, and WDFW etc. continue the same line of BS.

Posting photos of mass killings by wolves where they kill just to kill, or cows etc. with the calves ripped out and eaten the cow left alive to suffer, moose etc. that die a horrible slow death as wolves eat on them sometimes for days, it's an ugly sight. But it is what wolves do, there's nothing pretty about wolves and and how they kill. The pro-wolf side doesn't like these kind of pictures revealed to the public, it counters their sold image of wolves.

Many of the ranchers that are losing to wolves have lived their whole lives with their stock, caring for them year after year, they have a lifetime connection, and it hurts them to the core to watch a fake endangered wolf killing their stock, angers them that a corrupt USFWS and WDFW has overall say as to the outcome.

There are not near as many reports of wolf/livestock conflicts anymore, people have learned it only cost them money to contact WDFW, and wolf recipes are silent and cheap.
Have you watched the pro wolf crowd in action? I don't think you'll get near the "shock" value you guys are hoping for. They spin things the way they want.

Posting picture and telling the stories of what wolves are really about are for those who were and are still being  fooled by the propaganda that the USFWS-WDFW put out, pictures of the truth are for the general public.

I know people have and are changing their opinions of wolves as more of the truth is exposed. Just like the last incident with the girl that was treed by wolves. Plus there have been several books that have come out that contradict the USFWS, WDFW and the fake environmentalists.

There isn't a photo taken that would shock or change the pro-wolfers way of thinking, they have an agenda. They already know the truth, and yet they continue to down play or spew the same crap as WDFW etc., no amount of cruelty or depletion of the game herds from wolves will change their way of thinking, $$$$$$$.
Title: Re: Letter written by a wa rancher
Post by: bornhunter on July 28, 2018, 09:33:37 PM
Articles in newspapers are written to sell papers, not to accurately report facts. Anyone relying on a newspaper article or any media source today for accurate information would be better off getting their info from a bunch of meth freaks!
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