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Why are people able to hunt wild animals and kill them?

They can get arrested for neglecting demestic pets and harming them, which is fair but wild animals are living things too. Doesn't that mean that killing them should be animal cruelty? Why are they getting away with this?

Public Comments

1. Optimus, I have asked this question many times. Why is it legal to shoot an arrow through a live deer but a crime if you do the same to a dog? The deer has the same type of central nervous system a dog has and certainly feels the pain. There's no logic where emotion rules.
2. There are laws, regulations and licenses involved with hunting. No one can just go out and randomly kill wildlife. There are very specific hunting "seasons" for different species, and there are limits as to how many animals can be killed. Also, predators are not usually hunted either, as this would throw off the balance of the ecosystem. There are also laws against killing endangered, threatened or declining species. Hunting when done legally...is a great form of wildlife management. Hunters also provide much needed funding that goes back into saving wildlife and conserving wild habitats. Hunters actually feed and shelter a lot more birds and animals then they actually kill, and most hunters are environmentalists. If not for hunters many of the existing wild areas they hunt in would not exist..they would have been plowed over years ago for either mini-malls or condos. Also, when some animals such as deer become overpopulated..they end up dying a painful death of starvation. I personally am not a hunter, nor could I ever kill a healthy animal..but I definitely understand the necessity for hunting to continue to exist.