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Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [243]
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Anyone any stories?
Of course....A couple of years back i was offered the chance to earn some money driving a party of Danish hunters around the forest in my Range rover , so i agreed to this...i have to state first of all that i am not a hunter , i see no purpose to shoot an animal just to stick its head on your wall , i am not firmly against it , i know its an old noble art and all that , and the hunters do a lot of work to conserve the forest and animals there...Anyways i was short of dosh , and i felt maybe i didn,t have the right to disagree with something i knew nothing about...So , early one frosty morning a hunting we went....
I got no pleasure from seeing lovely wild animals shot and killed , but i did get to smile now and then at those that got away...The place where i had put my vehicle meant that i got to see very close up those animals that got past the line of hunters intact , one very close encounter with a full grown wild boar was enough to convince me that sitting inside my car was a much better idea than standing beside it...
I had deer , foxes , wild boar pass within two feet of where i sat , and it was good to see the lucky ones escape...Most of the animals were killed almost instantly by the high powered rifles , and only once did we have to hunt down and finish off a wounded boar....
If you are not to sensative to see animals shot , and gutted as soon as they are killed then its a great way to see these animals if you are a town dweller...
The place i live now is in Drawski national landscape park , so its not hard to see the wildlife , i have deer in my garden , and wild boar that take great delight in ripping up my grass to eat the shrub roots , i do wish they would fill in the dam holes after they had eaten , but i love having nature this close , and i feel i am very lucky to live here....
