Letter from the President – Fall/Winter 2021-22

Greetings C.A.S.H. members, supporters and/or casual readers who may be C.A.S.H.-curious, but hesitate to go against the
mainstream when it comes to animal versus human issues. Our goal is to help you see through the lies that we are bombarded with daily in the mainstream media and bring you into the fold for the animals. Goodness knows, our besieged four-legged, finned and feathered friends can use all the allies they can get! This time of year, it’s like a one-sided war is being waged against them and they are vastly outnumbered…

You may have noticed I didn’t start this letter out with “Season’s Greetings” this time. As I write this, we’re right smack in the middle of deer hunting “season” out West, so it doesn’t feel like the time of year for festive celebrations. Of course I love the Autumn for it’s colored leaves and crisp, cool air, but I’m more than a bit tired of seeing the hordes in their camouflage garb and hunter orange driving up and down the highways displaying dead deer in the beds of their brand new pickups (as if deer were just meaningless objects and climate change was just some kind of a hoax dreamed up to spoil their fun).

Thankfully though, this year—in spite of global warming or perhaps, because of its wobbly effect on the jet stream—we’re currently seeing an “atmospheric river” dropping a deluge of rain over the hunters’ perceived playgrounds and unleashing “bomb cyclones” (as well as dumping snow in the mountain passes) while they scurry back to wherever the heck they came from and lick their wounds. As we speak, they’ve likely planted themselves on the sofa to watch the ball games on their big, flat screen TV’s while they secretly breathe a sigh of relief that they are safe at home—rather than still out there in the wildlife’s scary wild natural habitats.

But, followers of the C.A.S.H. daily blog: https://committeetoabolishsporthunting.wordpress.com/ or visitors to the Hunting Accidents page of our Website: https://cash.wrightbrain.net/hunting-accidents/ know that not all hunters made it back home safe and sound this year (sorry to report).

Again, there’s been a steady stream (practically a deluge) of hunters falling out of tree stands, shooting themselves, their hunting partners or an occasional innocent bystander. While that’s always sad, the saddest story so far this year came out of Cody, Wyoming, on the Eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park, where a mother grizzly bear protecting her two cubs was shot to death by a couple of elk hunters she encountered.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, those hunters didn’t get rained out and decide to stay home that day. But, as they had already killed one elk the day before (who had no doubt wandered out of the park’s invisi- ble boundary), they were there to retrieve that trophy carcass (and probably hoped to fill some more elk tags while they were at it—since there were a total of four hunters in their “party”). As if the killing of the endan- gered grizzly bear wasn’t enough of a crime against Nature, “game” “managers” later rode in and shot the cowering cubs, who had stayed by the side of their lifeless mother.

Presumably not wanting to upset their gentle readers (and draw attention away from the plight of an injured human hunter), the local papers printed only that
the cubs were “euthanized” (a benign, more palatable synonym of “eradicated”). But in a phone call from C.A.S.H., the game department admitted that the cubs were shot. Never mind that there are probably several rehab centers nearby in the park’s surrounding states who would gladly take in the orphaned, endangered grizzly cubs, ‘that’s not how they do things in Wyoming,’ or some such sh…

Sorry about the unhappy ending to this letter. Hopefully as the season progresses, there won’t be anymore hunting accidents (or hunter “success” stories at-the- expense-of-animals for that matter).

Until then, stay tuned; I’ll talk to you next time,