On my walk yesterday I saw a beautiful little roe deer standing maybe 30 yards away in long grass looking at me with its ears perked up. We just looked at each other for a while and then I moved on. But it was still there on my way back and I spent longer watching it grazing at the edge of a wood.
As I focused on it I found myself imagining that I was a hunter and that I was looking at it through the sights of my rifle.
Yet again I found it inconceivable that anyone in that situation can pull the trigger. What goes through their head as they look at this beautiful, innocent, calm, defenceless creature.
And then kill it.
The Obvious? 
I so agree with you.
Inconceivable
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Oooh I’d love to see a deer (but impossible here) 🤣. That would have been a lovely surprise and a moment of awe.
One day in my early morning walks, I saw a fox! It was hiding under a neighbours tree on their front lawn and when it moved, there was another one. I’d never seen foxes here in the suburbs. What struck me was their long snout, their bushy tail and how red they were. I stood there dumbstruck. In Canberra on my walk, I once saw a kangaroo on our next door neighbour’s lawn just sitting there looking at me. We just stared at each other for a long while seeing who would make the first move (I did, I walked the other way). Moments like these made me realise how our suburbs have encroached their spaces. If I’m seeing foxes and kangaroos on suburban lawns, on busy streets, there’s something wrong…
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We are lucky to have quite a lot of deer in the countryside here. A mix of muntjac and roe.
I remember doing a talk in a school in Bunbury south of Perth. One wall of the classroom was glass and a family of kangaroos bounced past as I was speaking. Very distracting!
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It’s probably necessary to make the distinction between hunting for sport as opposed to hunting because your family are quite literally starving.
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I haven’t eaten meat for thirty years and the number of people in the world who have to hunt to feed their families must be vanishingly small. Even people in poor countries with religious reasons to do so cope without killing.
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