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Offline MDCAT

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I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« on: March 07, 2011, 02:12:20 PM »
My mother's been in the hospital for a few days and this morning I went to check on her.  As I got into the elevator, I noticed an older gentleman and a young girl in the back of the elevator with a smile on her face.  I was wearing my Fur Takers of America ballcap with a coon on the front.

As the elevator doors shut, the older gentleman kept looking at me.  So I got tired of it and looked back at him with a stern look on my face and he finally spoke up.  "Huh, Fur Takers of America.  Do you hunt coons?"

I said, "no sir, I don't.  I am a trapper and I trap furs."  I said, "some people like it and some people don't and the ones that don't need to keep their mouths shut."

You could have heard a pin drop in that elevator.  Finally the door opened and the man walked out.  The young girl in the back who had a smile on her face had her head down and her face was red and she wasn't smiling any more.   I am proud I am a trapper.  It is nothing to be ashamed of.  Thought I'd share the story.

Mike
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 02:29:39 PM »
 LOL, good for you Mike.
 Tom
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 01:28:15 AM »
Dang Mike,thats why the wife don't let you out much... ;)


 Good for you.I'd whop it to them too.

On a good note tho.I've been seeing alot more fur wearing at events and the malls.
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 07:54:56 AM »
Good for you until that last remark which was rude IMO anyway.
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 09:54:13 AM »
Guess you didn't give either a chance to like it or you really , shame .
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 11:53:06 AM »
OHHH--BROTHER----LOL

it's apparent you all have never been harassed by ANTI's. 

Mike
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 12:22:29 PM »
The more people I met the better I like my dog!!!!!!

 The last anti I ran into to was set on their heels and speechless.Sorry maybe I'm a bit rude...

 Then again my Grandfarther had a great saying!!!!The biggest jackA$$ is one who argues with a Jacka$$..He might have a point.Heck I'll never know....People just need to mind their own.....
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 12:57:21 PM »
Not trying to beat on this, just sayin' you might be able to change folks mind a little better if you had been a little more professional for the sport. And you are right, I have never had a "run in w/an anti".
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 07:07:21 PM »
 You can not change a true anti's way of thinking--no matter how professionally you act. And I do have plenty of experience in that matter.
 Sit at a table with several of them for a few hours--it will really open up your eyes.
 Trappers are the first ones in line,because our numbers are smaller than those of other groups.Who do you suppose is next in line?
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 12:28:13 AM »
Who do you suppose is next in line?

 Ok Tom,now your messing with my last brain cell !!!! ;D ..Thats a good question!!I guess the Fur Farmers or Fur/coat makers.Or you say'n cause your a dealer that flack comes your way too.I guess I never sat back and looked at it from your point of view...Some of those Anti's get mad over keeping a fish in a bowl...
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 07:30:18 AM »
I don’t trap anymore, between old age and arthritics just not as much fun anymore.
But over the years I have run into anti trap, gun and hunting people, and you stand as much chance of changing there minds as they do of changing yours. Most times I simply replied with an old Army saying  , Opinions are like A-holes everyone has one and walk away.
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2011, 10:27:04 AM »
Quote from: MDCAT on March 10, 2011, 11:53:06 AM
OHHH--BROTHER----LOL

it's apparent you all have never been harassed by ANTI's. 

Mike
I wish that was true but its not , hey peta has its main office in my state . I just don't roll in the mud with a pig , its hard for others to see the difference at that point.
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2011, 09:31:16 AM »
Good for you MDCat. I've tried to be a nice guy about it when approached by antis. When they saw I wasn't to impressed with their BS they started calling me some of the foulest names in the book. I guess I'm not a good christin and didn't turn the other cheek, instead I let them have it. Telling them they were the ones breaking the laws, I was on private property with written permission, they were tresspassing. And that harassment was against the law. They really got flustered when I told them it was the fur industry that got this country started. Gotta love it when a loud mouth has nothing left to say. I just walked away. I still get a chuckle whenever I see their faces. Priceless.
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2011, 06:57:23 PM »
I inform them that trappers help keep their taxes lower by controlling overpopulation resulting in conflicts with humans and/ or our pets or livestock that would cost their counties to hire a trapper
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Trappers help reduce the diseases from that overpopulation such as rabies, distemper, mange--then I ask them if they have ever seen a raccoon on a sunny hillside-65 degrees day, laying there curled up in a ball shivering-"well I have, it is from distemper, it will die a slow death and go to waste."
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that gortex coat you are wearing, being made from petroleum,  has left a trail of pollution from the oil field to the store where purchased, and will not biodegrade, and is not a renewable resource, like fur is.

They usually walk away speechless after that and the more people listening the better
I've gotten some nuisance jobs from that speech!!
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Re: I was approached - in an elevator - in the hospital!
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2011, 01:50:37 AM »
Well said... ;D...

I never got people.They will shoot a rabbit out of season because it's in their garden,or want the deer shot off becuse it ate their shrub.When it comes to fur/trapping it's voo-doo.I guess that all those grease spots on the roads in the summer time never dawns on them.To me it's a waste of a resource and also means population is high in that area.But what do I know?
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