Wal Mart Scandal

YellowLioness · 12-30-2004, 10:33 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/30/ca....ap/index.html

Now I'll post my personal opinions on this artical:

Anyone who hurts animals is a bad person, IMHO. :evil: What kind of manager orders employees to shoot a stray cat? What ever happened to that link of logic that suggested calling the Humane Society before resorting to harming the animal? :twisted:

In a totally unrelated personal rant- Walmart's corporate evil (as well as Starbuck's) is infiltrating our rather back woodsey society here in WV. They've run out several mom and pop stores with their low prices.

The danger is that Walmart is getting a bit of a monopoly here in WV. Once they've driven out our local grocers, what's stopping them from hiking their prices and choking the life from our small town communities? 8O

Where are the trust busters of old? *sigh*

Merika · 12-30-2004, 10:41 AM

I wonder why they didn't call the local SPCA or any pet organization?

Where I live, we used to have a problem with the racoons due to them getting in the garbage and making a mess, plus some were found to be rabid. I knew the guy who went out his way to shoot them all (his kids told my kids). I thought they were so cute I couldn't have killed on of THEM either....much less a cat.

Then again....it can depend on circumstances and persepctive. Not everyone feels the same about animals....and a great number don't like cats either. Trapping them is difficult....therefore shooting them becomes the only option when you get too many strays. It's illegal though.

I love my family pets, which I have only because of my children, but I'm not a tremendous animal lover personally. My son, on the other hand, is a tremendous animal lover and thinks hunting itself should be outllawed. It just depends on how a person feels about animals and not everyone feels the same.

Fayebelle · 12-30-2004, 10:48 AM

Wal Mart boycott heade your way!!!! :twisted:

poor kitty

Merika · 12-30-2004, 10:53 AM

It's hard for me to boycott WalMart.....if it weren't for them and KMart...we wouldn't be able to afford clothes and shoes.

Stone · 12-30-2004, 10:55 AM

I'm glad they got arrested.... those meanies

Why do people hate cats so much? There was a HORRIBLE incodent her not to long ago about two young boys killing Several small cats outside of the local grocier.. I also see alot of bumber stickers that say "Cats taste like Chicken" How stupid and unhummaine.

YellowLioness · 12-30-2004, 10:58 AM

I know, it horrid, right Faye?

Anyway, Merika, I used to feel the same way about hunting until someone explained to me WHY it is still legal:

WV, like several eastern states, is mostly forrest with some people thrown in. HOwever, despite the sheer acerage of trees and such, we have VERY few natural predators.

We do have bears, mountain lions, wild dogs, etc, but they are very few and far between.

Anyway, if no one hunted the deer, they'd end up eating themselves out of house and home. When driving along the roads, it's common to see herds of 20-25 deer milling around just waiting to bound across the road in front of someone's car.

Anyway, it's in the interest of the ecosystem that they are hunted. Besides, venison is GREAT!

Merika · 12-30-2004, 11:05 AM

I'm not overly fond of venison or any wild game. I don't have a problem with people hunting though. I grew up in an area where most of the men did hunt for sport.

My youngest son is just adamantly against it. He wasn't raised that way.....it's just something within his own heart. I believe there are people who see issues differently and those are the ones who help keep things in balance.

BTW: SH....I don't like cats well enough to even eat them! I like the one we have.....but that's about it. LOL!

Stone · 12-30-2004, 11:17 AM

I've never seen a deer except on our hurricane evacuation there was one dead on the road in GA..... I really need to get out ot FLA

Merika · 12-30-2004, 11:23 AM

I killed a deer with my car once in the GA mountains. The road curved around.....going up on one side and straight down on the other. The deer just stood there on the icy road and I had no choice but to smack it. My oldest son was about 7 at the time. He was okay with it. My youngest son would've been spastic though.

I had a Linclon Continental (big cars were still popular then) and it messed the crap up out of the front of the car. The blood on the windshield wasn't too lovely either.

It was right before Christmas and all I said was 'There goes Rudolph!'. I drove to the next town and told some hunters hanging out at the gas station where the deer was located.

Fayebelle · 12-30-2004, 11:41 AM

That reminds me of 2 stories

1- I hit a bird in the rain- the wing was ripped off and caught in my wiper going back and forth- I had to pull over and take it off

2- My fam hunts and for Christmas my uncle gave my grandfather a mounted head from a 12 pt buck he shot (enter redneak jokes here) Anyway I was like AAAAH! What's that?! My other uncle (7yrs older than me more like my brother) said "Oh they shot Rudolph last nt- his nose went out when he died" I locked myself in the bathroom for 2hrs b/c I didn't believe the adults that he was lying. I thought my whole fam was a possee of Reindeer assassins. LOL

Stone · 12-30-2004, 11:57 AM

Speaking of redneck hunters we have wild boar here and my brother and dad used to go hunting bring the dead hog home and get in outside our house on the basketball hoop... VERY DISTURBING!! we lived in a highly suburbian area not like it was private in the woods. It was SOOOOOO emabarassing.

Star · 12-30-2004, 12:04 PM

that poor little kitty!!

Those guys and the manager deserve to be in jail for that one! I would've told that manager where to go if it were me. They could've called the humain society for crying out loud! I hope they all lose their jobs and get jail time. Poor kitty.

Merika · 12-30-2004, 12:23 PM

I guess it's safe to assume Star won't be doing any game hunting......LOL!

I'm not opposed to people hunting.....it's just not something I would enjoy doing.

A bird in the windhshield.....ewwww!

Fayebelle · 12-30-2004, 12:27 PM

It was bad. I'm not much on birds (trying to conquer a phobia to be honest) but that was a fate I wouldn't put on my worst enemy. Poor tweety.

I couldn't hunt. I see the purpose of it, I don't oppose it as long as peeps follow the laws, but I couldn't do it.

Don't turn me loose on a poacher though :twisted:

Merika · 12-30-2004, 01:01 PM

Yeah...especially when they kill an animal for only one part - like a tusk, foot or skin. At least EAT the thing instead of killing it for a portion of it.