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Why do we put down wild animals that kill people?

Rarely it is the animals fault, they are just following their instincts. We are the idiots that keep moving into their territory and start the problems. When humans get too close to wild animals the animals should not have to pay for the mistake of the humans like in the Montana Grizzly bear attack the other day.

Public Comments

1. I agree. We should lock them up for life like human killers. See how that grizzly likes 95 to life in Joliet.
2. Hey, if we kill animals just because we're hungry, how much more reason would we have to kill animals for killing a person?
3. Because, duh, they may kill someone else.
4. If one harmed any of my family I'd kill it myself !!
5. To prevent a repeat performance by an animal that has demonstrated that it will kill.
6. More interesting than your question is your reasoning. I love how people like you somehow try to characterize humans as somehow alien to nature. I of course can sympathize with the animal that loses out in a run in with a human if they weren't actually threatening the person, but I sympathize as much and in fact even more with the 'human' that is attacked by an animal if the person didn't do anything specific to threaten the animal. You can say that the human shouldn't have been in that wilderness area that happened to be the home of said animal, but do you have the same reaction when a fox tries to dig up a prairie dog in his burrow in order to eat him? Isn't the fox 'encroaching' on another animals home and in fact threatening it's very life? Maybe you should 'educate' the fox about the incorrectness of his actions just as you'd like to do to the human? Should an antelope expect to be attacked just because it unknowingly wandered across a lions path? Now that seems quite unfair doesn't it? Bad, evil lion! Sound silly? So does your argument. Most humans may have developed past having to live in and survive in the wilderness, but that doesn't mean they aren't allowed to still 'revisit' it from time to time. Different species will from time to time cross paths and often it ends in violence. Either because one needs food, or simply because one or both are exerting their control of an area. It's called nature.
7. That grizzly should be required to see a counselor once a week for at least three months.
8. Why do we put down wild animals that kill people? To stop them from doing it again. "Rarely it is the animals fault, they are just following their instincts" No they are not following their instincts when these things happen, generally. Bears usually avoid people. Most bears that kill people have gone rogue. There is something wrong with them and they need to be killed