At Seventeen...

pity please the ones who serve, they only get what they deserve....

so Wendy is "outraged" at two 17 year old Lompoc boys for killing four owls, yet she says nothing when wolves, owls, pigs, hawks, falcons and horses are killed by conservation groups she supports in the name of biodiversity! I say we make hypocrisy a felony!!

it looks likes WENDY ACTUALLY WROTE a fuming editorial about the four owls killed by teenagers in Lompoc and boy did she let loose on them...I think though that she's really mad at me for confronting her and Nipper at the Garden Party! Wendy screams and I quote: "only a moron would expect any sane person to believe that crap" to the excuse given by the boys as to why they killed the owls..they said it was a mercy killing...who knows? was Wendy there? I wasn't...and she goes on to plead: make this a felony! sign petitions!! and of course #69 has a petition for you to sign....

the boys in question are at an age where killing animals is not unusual....learning about life requires killing..I snuck up on two doves once and shot them from behind when I was 16...plugged 'em both...dropped 'em..dressed them and we ate them...of course, as you grow you learn what and when you should kill; feeding polywogs to snapping turtles was fun as kids..the turtles ripped those suckers apart..there was blood everywhere!! as you grow up, you learn about life and what you should and shouldn't do...and unless you decide you enjoy killing and become a psychopathic murderer, a kid growing up should not be a crime...and Wendy calls the boys "killers" and "murderers" ....animals aren't murdered, people are.....BTW guys, I'd sue the News-Press for slander or libel or words I never heard in the bible!! go for it!! so Wendy has lost all perspective if she had any to begin with ...and now she is taking her faux- rage out on two teenage boys....no, they shouldn't be prosecuted or executed; they shouldn't be in jail ..

the NPS and Nature Conservancy ADULTS are the ones who should be jailed..kids learn from adults... and if adults are shooting pigs and wolves from helicopters, killing non target species like hawks and owls by poisoning an island with black rats on it, why pick on the kids??

For ecologist Josh Donlan, director of the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies, there was no question that the last few eagles should be shot. Donlan works frequently on islands, where interventions are often aggressive. He tells the story of Anacapa Island, a Channel Island whose tiny size and rocky face made it inhospitable to foxes. Non-native black rats were the problem there: The Park Service feared they were eating the eggs of the rare Xantus murrelet (named for the same Xantus who gave the spotted owl its Latin binomial), preventing it and other birds from nesting. After taking populations of the native deer mice into captivity and relocating most raptors, the Park Service spread rodent poison, knowing that some falcons, owls and hawks would die from eating the toxic rats.... now there's a crime....covering Anacapa Island with poison...

the point is simply: boys.... don't do this anymore..take some biology courses, and spend your future fighting the hypocrites like Wendy McCuckoo, the Nature Con and the National Parks Service..all who sanction killing in the name of biodiversity and money.... and boys, if you are prosecuted, you can use the non-native defense.... just tell them you thought the owls were invasive....and you'll be hailed as heroes.....