ive hunted coyotes by way of greyhounds all my life nothin wrong at all about it i say if u dont like the way we do things in the south go north i aint gonna quit huntin dogs
Come on... really... there are long doggers and lurcher men all over kansas, nebraska, wyoming... this is not a north vs south issue. This is about hunters needing to learn to be media savy in a media driven age and society.
All we need to do is be honest without being brash. We should all take a lesson from the N.T.A., they are doing it exactly right. They make no apologies, they don't hide the truth, they address the common concerns of those who don't hunt/trap, and have articulate and scientifically minded experts explain the realities in clear terms:
http://www.nationaltrappers.com/video/Destroying%20the%20Myth.mp4The anti's will always we be there, we can't control that. But we can control our own behavior. The media can be an ally if approached correctly... the problem is that hunters usually approach the media and respond to media in unproductive or even self destructive ways.