![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Heard on _Morning Edition_ today about a federal wolf hunter who killed a mated pair out west because they were killing cattle. Not a perfect solution, but one acceptable (if reluctantly) by most people. However, he left the pair's cubs behind, even knowing they were too young to survive on their own.
People have been searching for two weeks with no luck, and the cubs are probably dead by now. A speaker for the federal agency in charge of wolf control (can't think of the name) metaphorically shrugged and noted that there were plenty of wolves in the area and the cubs' deaths wouldn't affect the program.
The lack of morality expressed here is equaled only by the stupidity of expressing it in a public forum. Bad enough they left cubs to die (being the ones who put them in that position, they should have made certain, at the very least, that they were humanely killed, and ideally should have tried to have them adopted by other wolves, which they often do in the wild) but to express such a cold-blooded attitude could possibly endanger the entire program.
People have been searching for two weeks with no luck, and the cubs are probably dead by now. A speaker for the federal agency in charge of wolf control (can't think of the name) metaphorically shrugged and noted that there were plenty of wolves in the area and the cubs' deaths wouldn't affect the program.
The lack of morality expressed here is equaled only by the stupidity of expressing it in a public forum. Bad enough they left cubs to die (being the ones who put them in that position, they should have made certain, at the very least, that they were humanely killed, and ideally should have tried to have them adopted by other wolves, which they often do in the wild) but to express such a cold-blooded attitude could possibly endanger the entire program.
