CapeCodOnline.com – My heart goes out to the Dutra family, whose beloved dog, Sophie, was killed by hunters.
This tragedy, coupled with the recent shooting of a jogger, underscores the urgent need to ban hunting on Cape Cod. Although most hunters are responsible, many are not. And hunting regulations are not enforced. It’s asking for more tragedies to allow hunting in Cape Cod’s postage stamp wooded areas, which are ringed by development and intensively used for recreation — often by visitors who aren’t aware of the danger of being outdoors during hunting season.
Hunting belongs in the vast wildernesses in New Hampshire and Maine, not in Cape Cod’s little conservation patches.
Marsha Finley
Note: I do not hunt, I am not biased, I have no horse in this race, I just have a little thing called a brain
So let’s get this straight. A few irresponsible people acted like idiots which resulted in a couple of recent hunting accidents and this lady wants to completely ban hunting on Cape Cod? Seems legit.
Hey Lady, do you know how many people are hurt and killed in car accidents on Cape Cod every day because of irresponsible people? By your logic we should have banned roads and cars a long time ago because driving is obviously much too dangerous for Cape Codders to be trusted to do it.
I’m thinking we might need to ban swimming as well, there’s always a few irresponsible people who do it too soon after eating and they end up with cramps. Cape Cod is no place for cramps! Ban swimming now! And eating too (just in case)! BAN EVERYTHING!
P.S. For all of you bleeding hearts, hunting is a way for individuals to provide food for their families while not supporting factory farming, adding to pollution and reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, so put that in your Whole Foods pipe and smoke it. Should we outlaw small scale organic gardening as well? How about knitting?
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Hey!!! Not the knitting!! That's just too far. We knitters are known to carry pointy sticks and often tiny, folding scissors. Don't make me have an "accident"….
Hey!!! Not the knitting!! That's just too far. We knitters are known to carry pointy sticks and often tiny, folding scissors. Don't make me have an "accident"….
Hey!!! Not the knitting!! That's just too far. We knitters are known to carry pointy sticks and often tiny, folding scissors. Don't make me have an "accident"….
You sound like a horses ass, I know first hand that most of the animals killed are not eaten and then half of the people who actually get the meat home take last years frozen deer meat out of the freezer and throw it away to make room for this years.The Cape is too developed now to allow hunting. Shooting and killing someones beloved pet while they are right there in a camp grounds only proves this point. All you little Cape Cod killers should go hunt wild boar , first unlike deer and rabbits they fight back and second you would actually be helping people in an area where hunting is a sport. Killing a deer on Cape Cod is like shooting fish in s barrel.
I see you also were a friend of Big Johns, then you know what he would have told you
We could always import Tigers to take care of the deer tick problem and coyotes that take our pets, so there is nothing to hunt. Parana's could solve the fishing problem. The "No Nothing" is tricky, a Chernobyl type reactor and leak is my recommendation. Everyone would "Go Home"!
Because name calling is constructive, hunting licensing fees pay for state parks and conservation areas.
I grew up fishing Stripers, Blues, Fluke,and hunting Partridge, Quail, and Pheasant as a young boy with my Uncle, my Father and our English Setters on Cape Cod when there was land. Shot my first deer on Cape Cod too. Ma'am, I don't know where you were born, but The Cape is where I was born. I don't hunt in Massachusetts anymore because of the stigma that is placed on me. Don't you dare lump me in with someone that shot your family member. Dogs are family. A HUNTER does not do that! I am sorry truly for your loss. Grief causes people to say emotional things. Don't take it out on me! BTW- Learn before you preach.
I grew up fishing Stripers, Blues, Fluke,and hunting Partridge, Quail, and Pheasant as a young boy with my Uncle, my Father and our English Setters on Cape Cod when there was land. Shot my first deer on Cape Cod too. Ma'am, I don't know where you were born, but The Cape is where I was born. I don't hunt in Massachusetts anymore because of the stigma that is placed on me. Don't you dare lump me in with someone that shot your family member. Dogs are family. A HUNTER does not do that! I am sorry truly for your loss. Grief causes people to say emotional things. Don't take it out on me! BTW- Learn before you preach.
@Desiree Duda. You know this for a "fact"? Your extensive area of research is in what subject? May I assume that your degree is in Animal Science? Environmental Conservation? Wildlife Resources? Wildlife Management? Ma'am, take a peek in the mirror. The "horses ass" (sic) is you. Speak whereof you know. Good luck with your company. As you have previously alluded, Cape Cod is too small for hunting, however there are plenty of other marinas.
@Michael Frucci, well said. I am a biochemist and know a fair amount about speciation and ecology within animal populations. Say we do limit our hunting on cape cod and let all of these animals remain untouched, what do you think is going to happen? They're going to live in perfect harmony and not overpopulate? Where do you think doing anything "like rabbits" comes from? All these animals will take over Cape Cod, now the next question is why will this happen? Well a little thing built in 1935 called the Cape Cod Canal which limits migration off of Cape Cod. Therefore what ever breeds on Cape Cod stays on Cape Cod. If you recall Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket have a massive problem right now with overpopulation and what does this mean for the PEOPLE who live on both islands….? A SKY HIGH amount of lyme's disease, on a ridiculously large scale from, you guessed it DEER ticks. So yes, killing maybe bad and I understand this was tragic, I love dogs don't get me wrong. But if you're anywhere near the woods during hunting season maybe look to our friends up north that don't step foot outdoors during hunting season without wearing some article of hunter's orange, both humans AND dogs.