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Well there's nothing blunt about asking me if im a vegetarian, unless you think being one is too horrible... sorry if annoyed you with my earlier question.
I am vegan.
I am vegan.
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How about brandy?Still no response to the names I've tried. Trying on Sierra today. Means mountain range. Kinda fitting since we live so near to the Rockies.
Also trying on Tango, Wiskey, and Yankee. All makes from the Phonetic Alphabet... and maybe Rebel.
I tend to agree. Though still am respectful of her opinion. I'm am definitely a meat eater. And an avid hunter.Overpopulation in feral cats is different from overpopulation in beavers, IMO... beavers are wild animals, and we displaced their natural predators; so now we have to take over that role. It's either that or they die from disease and starvation. You can't TNR beavers, and trying to spread bait with birth control is a chancy thing that could affect more than just your target species.
Ferals on the other hand can be managed through TNR because their habitat is near humans, and they are dependent on our food scraps, and their population increases partly through strays. Feral dogs can be managed similarly (and it's even more important with town dogs because of the risk of rabies transmission).
It's lucky that we're omnivores; if we don't want to eat animals, we don't have to. But, like it or not, we're part of our ecosystem, and that includes managing animals both wild and domestic. Sometimes it means hunting; sometimes it means encouraging wild populations. Changing the environment is not something that's unique to modern humans. By the time we settled in the first towns, we had already had more of an impact on the ecosystem than any other species ever had (well, other than the first oxygen-producing organisms). Long before modern times we were hunting species to extinction and using fire to clear land. We're going to change things just by being here. Not eating meat is a personal choice, but even if we were obligate herbivores, we would probably still have to kill animals occasionally, just because we are here and we have to deal with things like mice in our granaries, feral cats in our Dumpsters, and beavers on our farmland. Sometimes killing an animal is a better choice than not killing an animal.
Thanks! Big Daddy is kinda handsome too if you could see his face. Lol. He's a cowboy in every sense of the word! Kinda has a Sam Elliot thing going on.Oops! I guess she is older than I thought! It's still a cute name. The kids are adorable, by the way.