Moose chased to exhaustion, beaten by boys

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This is just sick!

CBC.CA

To be truly honest: I get upset and sad when an animal gets beaten by humans...
but if a human gets beaten by humans(or animals) it doesnt bother me....
I wonder if thats just me or an AS trait...

*weep*


M.

They should have turned him over to a wildlife conservation group who could try to rehabilitate him or locate his mother, not SHOT him on sight.

That said, I don't understand why you posted this at all. This is extremely disturbing. Many aspies are animal lovers. I think you should delete it or at least add ***TRIGGER WARNING*** and remove the photos (letting people go to the site to see them if they choose).

Those kid should have know better, god help any child of mine that came home after doing something like that.

Little jerks.

I have several times encountered kids tormenting or mistreating animals, from snakes to dogs to horses. My theory is that it's a result of some sort of badly misplaced "hunting and stalking" behavior.

With one exception, every time I confronted the kids and explained to them that what they were doing was wrong, they seemed very surprised, as though they truly did not realize that their behavior was unacceptable. They were then very contrite, and I was confident they would never do it again.

I wonder if the parents of these kids are hunters, and the kids have grown up with a "household culture" of moose-hunting prowess and experiences. It's possible the kids saw their actions as simply "junior versions" of what their parents do.

I'm certainly not trying to make excuses for their behavior. But from my own experience I think it's possible they simply had not learned to make the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate behavior toward animals.

Yeah, animal lover, disturbing, will deal with it.

Article should have detailed why decision was made to end its life.
Journalistic failure there in my eyes.
"Exhaustion" doesn't sound like it justifies that. Was there more to it?

Little jerks and well beyond little jerks.
I'm feeling very vengeful . . . run them to the point of exhaustion. And beyond.
Then do it again.

Stone_Man wrote;

that is wretched unnecessary behavior. Shame on them!

ruveyn

There are questions as to whether this really happened as it was put out in the media.

I still condemn what is purported to have been done, but it may not have actually been done like that. There's no way I could run down a moose. I've been chased by moose. I think I'd have better luck running down a black bear.

Anyway, a CBC report last night said that people aren't yet sure what really happened.

Oh, and don't forget, before we had guns to kill things... running them down was one of the best ways. And it is very natural. Wolves do it. Lions do it. Cheetahs do it. And your cat fluffy does. I'd just make the kids EAT what they played with.

Quite horrible, and sadly not that uncommon. If they'd done the same thing while wearing silly outfits and riding horses instead of bikes, and rather than hitting it got dogs to rip its flesh with their jaws, then a lot of people would have probably found such behaviour quite acceptable (although fortunately the number of supporters is decreasing).



Humans are cruel, and while many condemn this I wonder what fraction of the population does have the capacity to do this sort of thing, and how many condemn it only because the behaviour is considered to be socially unacceptable. After all, in other cultural contexts this sort of behaviour is accepted and in some cases glorified, and considered a sign of the status of the social elites, and in those societies such behaviour is considered to be a normal, everyday thing by most people at which nobody would bat an eyelid. Let's not forget that a few hundred years ago it was considered great entertainment to watch somebody being publicly hung, drawn and quartered. How many members of those cheering mobs, if transported to modern times, would suddenly pretend to be full of disgust at cruelty, simply in order to conform to social norms? And how many people today do exactly the same thing? I think that for every person who engages in such behaviour, there's probably hundreds who would do so themselves were it not for the social ostracism they would face for doing so.

I say let's keep watch on the police investigation first.

However, if something like what was said to happen actually did happen...(I'll be ready to go after them, too).