Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

[lizblackdog]

So I was talking to deathwokclan, and I go to Youtube to show her the Spike tuggy video. And while I'm there, I'm distracted by a National Geographic video of an eagle hunting a chevrotain, and then it occurs to me that I could do a Youtube search for "falconry", and I wonder why I never thought of it before. I'm not usually so slow to find new ways to torture myself.

Edited to add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SO5LbZx3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2OLYG694Q - includes working ferrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWeN02DLmU

These killed me. They're English. I might even have met the guy, though I can't tell. Don't click the first two if you have a problem with furry mammal death. This isn't a display at a fair, it's the real thing. That was my life. Third one is a redtail, which is what mine was.

Comments

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Heh. I supposed that's what I get for not reading the part about not watching the first two if you have a problem with "furry mammal death".
Although, honestly, I didn't really have a problem with most of it, it's just that my little vegetarian soul rebelled a little at the neck breaking part in the second video. I have a better opinion of people who use domesticated animals for working purposes than I do of the people who would prefer to dress them up in clothes and pretend that they're just furry little humans. At least the hawk and the ferrets were having fun doing what they do naturally.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

I can't call dressing ferrets up "cruelty", but I admit my soul always dies a little to see it. It feels to me like very much missing the point.

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree with you. It's not cruel, it's just...blech.