Mona, I really am blessed. If he wants to hunt, he's welcome to do so. I don't love it, but I do love him! It's funny... I've seen him spend 45 minutes trying to revive a little fish, and then he'll go hunting the next day. Makes no sense, but it's how he is. He is an avid fly fisherman, but releases all of his fish.
I grew up eating wild game, and refuse to eat any more of it. I just don't like it! Hunting here is huge, especially deer. It's not like it used to be, but it's still huge. When we moved here 20 years ago, there was hardly anyone left in town when deer season started! They usually closed the schools the Friday before the opening weekend, because there were no kids in school anyway. It's just not "politically correct" to hunt these days like it used to be.
When my husband was stationed in Illinois, he and a friend of his were hired to hunt on the private golf course. The deer were destroying it because there were way too many of them, and they weren't healthy because of it. The owner didn't mind it if the deer wanted to eat some grass, but they were tearing up everything, including all of the trees. In fact, the entire area was so totally overrun with deer that the county ended up having to hire hunters to come in and thin the herd out some. They hadn't let anyone hunt there in years, and the deer were suffering terribly because of it. Having no natural predators was the problem. By the time we moved, there wasn't even a dent being made in the problem, and after 10 years, I doubt that it's gotten much better.
