What do you think of Sarah Palin's.....

The official word here in Northern New York is that there are no wolves. Some of us have noticed that they are very slowly returning. It's a long hard fight for those populations to survive and no guarantee that they'll recover if mismanaged and overhunted. Be careful up there in Alaska. Take a cautionary lesson from the lower 48.

I think that by killing any animal with an arial assault is wrong. I do not live in Alaska, and have never been there, but I know I wouldn't want to be hunted down by a person in a helicopter shooting a high powered rifle at me.

I am just appaulled at the lack of care and consideration that this woman has shown to the animals in Alaska.

With all due respect to all those commenting here --- what makes any of you think predators choose to target the weak and sick in their prey? They only do it out of necessity. Certainly none of you believe that if a wolf/bear/lion/etc. had its choice, it would choose the weaker meal?? Animals don't judge, they know what they want/need and they choose the easiest route....which means the weak or sick animals in most cases involving a meal. Keep in mind that any animal population loses its "natural" way of being once humans get involved so as long as humans are sharing a habitat, hunting, etc. -- predator populations have to be controlled.

That said, I LOVE LOVE LOVE wolves so the idea of killing them is absolutely horrible to me, but I also have horses and livestock, and I don't know how sentimental I'd be if I had an overgrown wolf population feeding on my pets.

So, just my opinion and obviously not a solution for anything :) and I am certainly not a Palin fan as it is most definitley NOT legal for me to get married unless I live in California or Mass.

My daughter lives in Alaska and I just returned from there, I seen all the fur shops and the gifts shops that even sell baleen from whales. I don't like it but up there it's a way of life. Alaskans eat what they kill. It seems very funny to me that no one ever mentioned that Dick Cheney was a hunter when he was appointed VP, and I bet he was more of a trophy hunter then a hunter who eats what he kills.

Although my answer will likely not be popular with many, I'm simply asking ZooTooers to consider that there is much more to large predators than will be found on the cable channels. How many have heard of Kenton Joel Carnegie? Visit http://www.google.com and put Kenton's name (or just "Kenton Carnegie") in the search box. While today's "kinder, gentler" and "politically correct" change agents would have the world think that the lion's true nature is to lie down with the lamb -- or that a pack of wolves, a cougar, etc., won't kill family pets, ranch dogs, etc. -- the truth is that large predators are meat eaters. Most people fit this category, too (meat eaters). Separating the mythical symbolism from the real world may make the wolf, cougar, bear, alligator, or whatever, look somehow "romantic" or alluring, but the truth is different. Rather than accept at face value what is said in order to get viewers ("tv specials"), I ask that you do your homework and read a lot more about large predators, that's all.