近距离内射合集

Like most decent human beings, I was shocked and saddened to learn how two Mexican wolves of the Sawtooth pack were brutally killed by trappers 鈥� one died of thirst languishing over the course of days in a leg-hold trap, the other shot in the spine and then bludgeoned to death with a shovel blow to the skull also while gripped tight by a leg-hold trap.

I live in the Mexican wolf recovery area adjacent to public land where both livestock and wolves roam. Our land is fenced to keep cattle out, but wildlife is welcome. We have water set out for all comers from quail and jays, to deer and elk, to coyotes, bobcats and now wolves. I know that all of them are members of a vibrant biotic community. Some of them eat seeds and plants, and some of them eat those that eat seeds and plants. That is how nature is made. None of them are bad or less important than the rest. None of them are worthy of contempt.

A wolf kills to eat. And the only way wolves can kill is to use their speed, strength and teeth; the tools nature bestowed upon them. Even though the result is bloody, they don鈥檛 kill out of anger, resentment or a lust for violence. They do it because of hunger and to feed their families. What do they know about the economics and management of the cow/calf livestock operation in their habitat? Nothing.

Humans, on the other hand, understand the difference between cruelty and kindness. Yet, instead of decrying the savage fate that met the Sawtooth wolves, in a follow-up article an 86-year-old trapper reveals an attitude of disregard about wolf killing. He claims his father killed the last wolf in New Mexico in the 1930s as if that were a good thing. In asserting that if he trapped a wolf today, a game warden can 鈥渟tand there and watch me kill him (the wolf), or he (the warden) can kill him.鈥� Killing is the only envisioned outcome. A game warden鈥檚 job is to enforce wildlife law, not to rubber-stamp a vigilante desire. This trapper鈥檚 casual expectation also disturbingly bypasses legality.

Then, the president of the New Mexico Cattlegrowers鈥� Association doubles down on the violence in this quote claiming, 鈥淭he science says the most effective way to deal with depredations is lethal removal 鈥� because it teaches the pack 鈥� that that鈥檚 not acceptable behavior, and they back off.鈥� In reality, peer-reviewed research shows that killing a member of a wolf pack does not resolve conflict, it is just an act of revenge under some human defined moral code that wolves have no way to understand. It is actually disruptive to the social structure of the pack and it can exacerbate livestock loss rather than solve it. Killing does not teach lessons; it cruelly creates ecological chaos.

Taken all together, these attitudes are a cause for deep concern for wolves. It isn鈥檛 鈥渕anagement鈥� that is driving these violent and cruel actions, but disdain and revenge, neither of which are acceptable. Wolves are neither good nor bad. They don鈥檛 deserve to be tortured and abused. The heinous treatment of the Sawtooth wolves must not be allowed to stand without consequences. Hate for any wild species should not motivate human actions toward them. But make no mistake, humans are the only species capable of being motivated by it.

Mary Katherine Ray is the volunteer wildlife chairwoman for the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club. She lives, hikes and photographs wildlife near her home in a remote part of Socorro County.