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No need to hunt doves or any other animal
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Mar. 17, 2011 11:51 am
I am a senior citizen and I do put my money on the line. I enjoy the mourning doves very much. I also buy seed and corn for other birds, chipmunks, squirrels and rabbits. I see no need to kill any animals for sport. I do not own a gun. I use the love of animals to give me the feeling of worth.
The hunters are already given enough animals to kill. I know of a dad and grandfather who let a 3-year-old boy watch a hung up deer gutted and skinned. I bet those parents will have trouble with that child in later years.
Pat Meeker
Newhall
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