Quote Originally Posted by sparks19
I don't see what the big hullabaloo is about.

Perhaps he shouldn't have been throwing sticks but putting an injured animal out of it's misery and then not putting it to waste can be a good lesson. Not to mention that squirrel can be a good meal in a survival situation. I think it would be far worse if he were to just let the animal suffer in front of the children. Instead I think it was turned into a good lesson on how to use what nature provides you and NOT to waste.
I agree. I do agree that it was WRONG of him to throw sticks at any wild animal in the first place, but you must also remember... when it comes to animals, people are so quick to throw around the word "destroyed", making it sound like the animal died in such a terrible, horrible way. Dogs are "destroyed" after attacks, but they aren't ripped to pieces or bludgeoned to death. Now obviously this squirrel wasn't euthanized but perhaps the word is just... overkill for what really happened.

In any chance, at least they didn't waste, so his death wasn't in complete vain.

I mean, I don't know, what were the ages of the children? I still have mixed feelings on this. I don't see the situation itself as necessarily wrong, but I think it could have gone about differently (not doing it in front of young children, etc).