Take them fishing with you. I bet they make great cut bait.

Thanks man.

No disrespect intended. Thank you for your service. My entire family is in the Air Force or Marines, My brother-in-law just returned from 9 months in Iraq. My sister is due to leave in two months heading BACK to Afghanistan.

If these people knew anything about the critters and fish, they are so called trying to "protect" creatures in the wild, do not think logically like human beings, mother nature did not make them that way, as stated above, 2 things, eat and reproduce. there have been hundreds of studys, that prove their brains do not function that way. Now if we start catching fish or killing deer with this big round head like ours, to house a brain as large as ours, them maybe we could ask the question, what were they thinking. LMAO, but i dont see that happening for atleast a few hundred more years.

It was just a matter of time

"There Irrogance precides there Ignorance"

I cannot stand PETA and what it stands for. Most people are hoodwinked into thinking if they give to PETA, it will help pets, and pay for shelters. What they are giving to is an organization that wants to strip away your right to own a pet, to fish or hunt, and to eat meat of any type, or fish. They want us all to be vegetarians. If you want to help a local shelter, that is wonderful. Help pay for spay and neutering programs that are low cost. They have even tried to get a jail to not serve the prisoners meat for their dinner. They are doing this in increments, if you allow a little, they add a little more, until before you know it, their agenda is fulfilled. Like throwing a frog in a pot and slowly turning up the heat, the frog will stay until he is cooked. If they showed their true colors right off the bat, then the frog would just out of the boiling pot, if you threw it in at that temp. That is what they are doing. They are also calling for a ban on fishing in National Parks. That is what I mean by increments. They call for lower pet limits, and mandatory spay and neuter. Then they will call for LOWER pet limits until none are left...this is their agenda. They forget people have the right to choose what they eat, and how many pets they will have. Look up what PETA does to the animals they do get, it would surprise many here...the kill rate is unbelievable.
Just GOOGLE Peta, and see for yourselves.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549
PETA and Euthanasia

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm
more about PETA

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/148
PETA kills more than 90% of animals they get in VA alone (2005)

http://www.arbreptiles.com/extremists.shtml
This is just a pin drop into some PETA beliefs, and their ties to the HSUS.

Please still give to local Humane Societies for shelters, this is not the same as the HSUS. (I gave to HSUS in the past before I found out where my money was really going)

Look at your local pet law groups on Yahoogroups. You will be amazed at what is taking place around the country. It is amazing at the amount of influence animal rights groups have.

a year befor i was at the huston live stock show showing my steer and them sob where putting sticker on my steer i bout woped someone a$$

Hey, here is something that most all fishers know about, but may not have put it together. Reading that PETA [censored], you will see many references to fish getting "impaled" by a hook and all the pain they experience having a hook in their mouth. I wonder if their clueless rear ends have every seen a 3 to 4 inch bream with all its fins fully extended? Now they should picture that bream going into a bass's mouth. Or how about that crawdad with several pointy areas on the shell? The fact is, those fish's mouths are designed to stand up to that abuse, and I would dare say that the design leaves out a bunch of nerve endings in the mouth. I shared that concept with my borderline PETA sister in law, and she didn't have a whole lot to say about that.

It is the Vegans that a poluting the world. I eat the cow that gives of the methane gas. They eat the plants that convert methane back into oxygen. They are the true cause of GLOBLE WARING. Wait, where is AL Gore?

They are a very dangerous and real threat to our very way of life. All of them are freaks and have no fear of out and out lies to ban any type of fishing, hunting or taking of creatures of any kind. Using the trash and old fishing line theme is probably only the "tip of the iceberg" in their campaign.

It is good to know that there are those on here who understand what we are up against. Those animal rights folks have tons and tons of money to fight us with. We are in a fight for our very way of life, and you had better believe it. They will play dirty. Did you see the things they find acceptable to get their solutions done? Passive or violent, they don't care. They are dangerous people. The ones who just join are naive for the most part. Then they are indoctrinated. Tell your family and friends, and look this stuff up for yourselves. It is mind boggling.

TREE HUGGERS!!

PETA, is a bunch of ineffectual fanatics that normal, thinking humans recognise as such.

The problem many hunters and fishermen do not recognise or understand, is that there is a group that shares many of PETA's objectives and goals, yet they have real political clout, and are treated very seriously by many politicians.

Try doing some research on the Humane Societies of the United States.

Many of their long term goals are right in line with PETA's, it is just they are intelligent people and they have been accomplishing their goals logically and covertly.

PETA is basically a front for the HSUS.

Because of PETA's radical, off the wall actions, many people find some truth in a fashion to PETA's message, but because they are so radical, they won't donate to them.

Along comes the HSUS, preaching many of the same concepts, except in a more palatable manner, but regardless of the message and which group is delivering it, the $$$ goes to the same place. JMO.

Here's an example of PETA's work for ya:

A few yrs. ago I finally drew a Mountain Goat license in Colorado after putting in for nineteen straight years. The license was for an area along the continental divide Southwest of Georgetown, CO and about a 90 minute drive from my house. I was so excited to finally get the opportunity to hunt a Mountain Goat that I spent every free minute for the entire Summer on top of those mountains. After all of that scouting, I felt I absolutely knew every nook & cranny that would hold a Goat. I had located what I knew was a group of four older Billys hanging together about the 1st week of July. A couple of them were obviously really old and having trouble getting around in the cliffs and rocks. After watching them repeatedly thru my new spotting scope over the course of the next six weeks I had gotten to the point that I could predict approximately where that group would be at any given time of day. I just knew my hunt was going to be fantasic. I knew I had the chance of a lifetime to harvest an older Billy, and a true trophy animal quickly approaching the end of his normal life.

I was so confident that I decided to spend the extra money and effort required to lease a couple of horses for the entire week long hunting season. I went to the U.S. Forest Service office in Idaho Springs and got all of the necessary paperwork & permits to allow me to take the horses on the hunt. I selected my base camp site and even talked with the local ranger to insure that I would be ok and knew any restrictions. I thought I could use the horses to get me to timberline everyday and to pack out my animal after I backpacked him down to that level. Thus, having two horses would allow me to rotate their daily use. While I used one to ride to and from timberline, the other would be staked-out at base camp with lots of weed-free hay pellets, a proper amount of grain, and water.

Six days before the season opener, I sat-up a base camp about four miles below my hunting area. Almost immediately, the local ranger came by, looked over my camp and complimented me on the arrangements I had made. Within two hours of her leaving my campsite, a young couple came in. As they approached, they separated with the woman walking out to the horses and the young man coming on into the area where I had my tent. After saying his hellos and properly introducing himself, he asked me if I was a goat hunter. I responded that I was and then he asked if I knew where the other seven hunters were camped in this game management unit. Thinking that was strange, I told him no that I had not ran into any of them, and asked why he wanted to know. His response nearly knocked me off my feet. "Oh, well, you see, I'm from St.Louis, and Heather there is from Sacramento. PETA gave us plane tickets and arranged for us to be here to monitor the Mountain Goat hunting in this game unit." About that time, the young girl walked on into the camp. As she approached, she motioned back to the horses and asked me, "Do you think it is proper to tie-up those poor animals that way? Don't you know they would rather be free than to be tied-up like that?" After explaining to her that Forest Service regulations dictate the method I use to control my domestic livestock on the public lands, and that I was properly caring for the animals, I also told her that the local ranger had already been to my camp and approved everything I was doing. Her response: "Yea, we know, She was the one that told us you would be here, and that we should go check on you from time to time." Shortly after that, I very courteously asked them to leave my campsite.

The next morninig I saddled a horse and rode to timberline. Tied the animal off at a pre-selected location, put on my backpack and proceeded to climb on up to watch my band of Billys spend the day in the cliffs above. Sure enough, they spent the day doing just as I had predicted. Upon my arrival back down where I had tied-off my horse, I found his halter still tied to the tree, but no horse in sight. Searching the area, I was able to find his tracks and trail him down the canyon about 1/4 mile where I found him feeding in a meadow. Gathering him up, I then rode on back to base camp, all the while trying to figure out how the heck the harness buckle had come open. Upon reaching my camp, I found an identical situation there. My second harness was still tied-off, but the animal was gone. That made me mad, I then knew this wasn't a freaky accident. It had happened on purpose! As I searched for my horse, I looked back at my camp, there was smoke coming out of the stove pipe above the tent! Knowing that I hadn't even built a fire in the stove since I'd been there, I returned to the camp. Sure enough, there was a roaring fire going in my stove. Looking all around the camp, no one was there. Someone had lit the fire and left. I put the fire out, and went back to hunting my missing horse, but it got dark on me and I had to give up and return to camp. About two hours after I had finished my dinner, I heard the animal returning down the trail. He came right back to the spot where he had been "Inhumanely Tied" and began licking up the left over grain there. Boy was I glad to see him!
Over the next three days, my horses mysteriously got loose twice more and while up scouting the Billys, I ran into the PETA Couple four different times. Never really closely, but always about 1/2 mile away. Each time I saw them and started their way, they would disappear back into the timber long before I could get close enough to talk to them. Finally, the "Day-Before-Opener" arrived, I successfully scouted my Billys until about noon, and then it happened. Across the canyon from me, and about 400 yrds above the billys, I saw the young "PETA Couple". All of a sudden, I heard bang, bang, bang. then another bang bang. Needless to say, the Billys quickly evacuated the area. I watched them vaporize around the side hill and over two more cliffs out of sight. Ticked, I returned down the trail only to find two more hanging harnesses and no horses. After spending the rest of the day finding the animals and getting back down the mountain to base camp, I was so mad I could spit. At least the season would open tomorrow and I could get my goat and get the heck out of there. Well, it took me seven more days of hard hunting to even see one of the Billys again. After getting him, and returning to town, I went down to the Denver office of our Division of Wildlife. There they told me that such "PETA Occurances happen virtually every year in the "Mt. Evans" game management unit. However, there is nothing that they can do about it unless they are personally there to witness the infractions.

Needless to say, I now wouldn't throw a life-ring to a drowning PETA Member if I came across one franticly tredding water in the middle of the lake!

Regards, & Good Huntin',
LlindeX

Wow, I am angry just reading your story. It is a shame you couldn't film them and catch them red handed. That is unreal. I don't put this behavior past them at all. Maybe some local hunters could do a little sting on their operation....hehehe. I bet you were mad, and I am so sorry that this happened to you. The sad thing is, a lot of them really believe they are doing the right thing.

That's absolutely rediculous. Congrats on keeping your cool and not going after them.

I don't know about colorado, but in texas, it is completely legal to shoot someone stealing your (or even someone else's) property. If you just happened to be coming down to the camp and catch a horse thief, I say shoot 'em. Maybe you could even get a fiberglass replica made later on and mount it on the wall.

"The yellow-haired lady was buried at sunset;

The stranger went free, of course.

For you can't hang a man for killin' a woman,

Who's tryin' to steal your horse."

Red Headed Stranger-

Willie Nelson

1975

Having seen the amount of work that goes into raising and showing such an animal, A good old fashioned whooping would be letting them off easy IMO.

I know many hunters that would have started hunting PETA members that day. I guess there is so much private land here in Texas that these PETA people know that they would get shot if they tried that here. Be glad for high lease prices, atleast you dont have to worry about these people following you to your deer stand on private property.

I used to trap during the Texas trapping season before PETA raised so much hell that the buyers quit coming around. About the time I quit trapping I was in Oklahoma City one day at a mall where PETA was picketing one of the stores for selling fur coats. Well to make a long story short they were disrupting traffic, walking out in front of vechicles carrying their stupid signs. Well a couple made the mistake of stepping in front of me as I was leaving the Mall. I immediatly stomped the accelerator and smoked the tires, you haven't ever seen 2 people move as fast as those 2 did. There were 3 policeman watching and they almost fell off their cars laughing and they saluted me and started clapping. Nobody but PETA likes PETA.
Johnny