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mithnanthy

(1,725 posts)
9. My adopted father was a big game hunter.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 11:46 AM
Aug 2015

He was also a Doctor and belonged to the Safari International club and the Boone and Crockett club. Over the years he filled our house, cellar and office with trophies. I called it the "dead zoo"as a young girl. One bear he shot was displayed in the Museum of Natural History in N.Y. because it was so large and an award winning trophy. When he passed away, he left me some trophies but gave most away to other people. (Thank Goddess.) He also "murdered" an elephant and brought home tusks and had foot stools made out of it's feet and also an cocktail tray. He had it's penis (inside bone)made into a cane. He killed a walrus and I have an "ozic" large club like bone from it's penis. I have earrings and bracelet also made from that bone and he had half of the animals mounted to display on walls. He killed a polar bear and my brother has that rug. He killed a lion and had it's testicals made into cocktail cups. He killed a tiger and a leopard (I have those mounts) and I've named them Cleo and Anthony and they are positioned in my house looking out the window to the lush backyard for them to "look" at. We love and honor them.( Doc didn't like me or cats because I didn't like his murderous hunting). He killed and had trophies mounted of a Musk Ox, kangaroo,water buffalo, seal, moose, caribou, elk, 3 zebras, an iguana, many antler bearing animals, a mountain goat and too many more to mention. As a child, I was forced to watch 16 millimeter films of the many "hunts' and how they took their skins off. I still have nightmares, especially now with these 2 other trophy hunting doctors in the news. We were forced at dinner to eat some of these animals' meat. I haven't eaten any meat in 39 years. I hope those doctors are sent to prison in Africa for a long time. I hesitated in writing all this but I needed to express my disgust for trophy hunting.

so many of those big game hunting private breeding camps all over Africa. Sunlei Aug 2015 #1
Good news. How about a ban in the U.S. next? Auggie Aug 2015 #2
Thats the ticket.......................... turbinetree Aug 2015 #3
Yay and yes. BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2015 #4
If you listen to some of the news broadcasts swilton Aug 2015 #12
Well, I guess animals are going to be treated better there than gays are. NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author bloom Aug 2015 #7
A step forward is a step forward. And a step forward generally makes another step 1monster Aug 2015 #10
it is not a contest restorefreedom Aug 2015 #11
Not what I said at all. In fact, I think this is great news. NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #13
sorry if i misunderstood. restorefreedom Aug 2015 #15
+1 jonno99 Aug 2015 #28
Good grief kwolf68 Aug 2015 #35
Another one of what, exactly? NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #36
YES! Now extradite Palmer's ass and let him rot is a prison in Zimbabwe. n/t Still In Wisconsin Aug 2015 #6
Protest Against Second Illeagal Trophy Hunting 'Creature' Wednesday 6:00 p.m. swilton Aug 2015 #8
My adopted father was a big game hunter. mithnanthy Aug 2015 #9
Wow, that's a lot of trophies. harun Aug 2015 #16
i'm sorry for what you had to go through shanti Aug 2015 #21
like the others, I am sorry for what you had to go through. how utterly awful. niyad Aug 2015 #24
What a shocking and disgusting picture of death. What creeps!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2015 #26
to be surrounded by so much death, and glory in it, is truly sickening. niyad Aug 2015 #39
That looks very much like "home". mithnanthy Aug 2015 #32
I cannot even begin to imagine what it was like to be surrounded by such horror. niyad Aug 2015 #40
extradite the asshole dentist and doctor samsingh Aug 2015 #14
Some of it's not even hunting. Just animals kept in cages and released before getting shot. mainer Aug 2015 #17
that is why I refer to it as trophy killing restorefreedom Aug 2015 #19
Exactly what they are, "psycho scumbags." And they are one step away from hunting humans. IMO RKP5637 Aug 2015 #27
boy would i like to see that. nt restorefreedom Aug 2015 #30
I don't understand why so many doctors in this arena. juajen Aug 2015 #34
It's weird, isn't it. Maybe because they have lots of money and can afford to do it. Maybe RKP5637 Aug 2015 #37
its creepy restorefreedom Aug 2015 #38
Jan Siske, too. Extradite and throw his sorry ass in Zimbabwe jail. magical thyme Aug 2015 #18
perfect! shanti Aug 2015 #20
Hope they won't back down, and will enforce this ban strictly. It's time to grow up. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #22
Maybe this noble creature lost his life for a noble cause. Marie Marie Aug 2015 #23
GOOD, it's about bloody time they did that Warpy Aug 2015 #25
That's a qualified success. no_hypocrisy Aug 2015 #29
The legal trade in trophies and hides provides them cover. LeftyMom Aug 2015 #31
This should have been done years ago. Third Doctor Aug 2015 #33
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