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Julie Dee's avatar

Thought provoking

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

It is, isn’t it? Thanks, Julie.✨

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Simone Senisin's avatar

Me too 😊

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Candy Kennedy's avatar

Let me HOPE any day.

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Hope is good to hold onto, Candy ✨

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Shauna K. Hunt's avatar

Love this! I enjoy your poetry. ☀️

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Shauna, I appreciate you saying that! 🤗✨

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C.J. Heck's avatar

I'll go along with you, Trudi. 😊💕

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Heidi Zawelevsky's avatar

I would too! Right there with you, Trudi.

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Yay! 🤗✨

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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

"I'd rather be a forest

Than street

Yes I would

I surely would..." (El Condor Pasa..."

Especially if I could see the gracious Roe Deer

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

I’d rather be a forest, too! ✨

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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

You could have! If it was something similar to what I described, then you could have seen them. Looking at the size and the V-shape of the buck’s antler, ( no branches side-ways), it is 2 year’s old, so it was his first rut.

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

I never knew this - about the balance - but of course I know how the natural world is being disrupted. And I also did not think hunters would live animals in the way you describe. You have taught me a lot, Zsolt.

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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

It is my pleasure Trudi! I will publish an instructive history of hunting soon.

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

You know so much about deer! 🦌

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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

I am a hunter. And hunters love wildlife and care for them. Unfortunately civilisation shrunk the habitat of the game animals. The existing population of the predators is not enough to keep a balanced number of deers and other herbivores, so the young shots of the trees are eaten by them, and the forest needs defence to keep it healthy growing. The foresters, the farmers and the hunters together have to cooperate and neutralise the damage done by civilisation.

If you hear someone telling you that hunters are indiscriminately killing the poor animals to extinction, don't believe them. Poachers are doing such crimes, but hunters have nothing to do with them, except chasing and get prosecuted them. I want my grandsons to continue my hunting, so I have a personal reason to protect the game.

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Old Codger Steve's avatar

As always left me pondering, wandering and wondering

For me think it is

Upfront

In the midst

Or left behind

Just saying

Thank-you for the stirring

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

You’re always welcome, Steve 🤗✨

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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

This is wonderful Trudi ✨

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Thank you! 🙏🤗

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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

You’re more than welcome!

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