Sask Bible camp counsellor facing heat for roasting squirrel in front of kids

[Cataholic]

It isn't merely the fact he killed and then roasted the squirrel. It is the fact that this is an adult, in charge of/responsible for children.

It was a gross error in judgment- it didn't matter if it was humane to kill the animal after maiming it or not. THAT could have been handled inoffensively. Anyone in charge or/responsible for children at a Bible camp, no less, should have known this would be offensive. To suggest otherwise is overlooking his responsibility to the children.

Lots of things happen in nature, and are humane, ethical, "normal"...but, this is a camp counselor, children and a Bible camp that we are speaking about.

Prolly pretty normal for the guy to take a big poop in the woods, too, but, doesn't mean he should go around bragging about it. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...and here, given the nature of the relationship between the adult and the children, and in a bible camp setting- poor judgment.

[Pam]

As I said before, I would like to know a lot more about the story, i.e., what were the ages of the children and were they children who had been in a camping environment before? A teenager would, I am sure, have not batted an eye. Even younger children might not have been traumatized if they have grown up in a rural area and been exposed to a lot of hunting. I have friends with young children and they are used to hunting (and eating) what they hunt. I was not raised that way so it might have bothered me more than kids like that. More info is definitely needed.

[wombat2u2004]

As I said before, I would like to know a lot more about the story, i.e., what were the ages of the children and were they children who had been in a camping environment before? A teenager would, I am sure, have not batted an eye. Even younger children might not have been traumatized if they have grown up in a rural area and been exposed to a lot of hunting. I have friends with young children and they are used to hunting (and eating) what they hunt. I was not raised that way so it might have bothered me more than kids like that. More info is definitely needed.

Yes.....and more recipes are needed to Pam
I'll have you eating possums and things in no time !!!!
Wom

[shais_mom]

I'm a farm girl - happily so - but we didn't eat weird stuff. My parents think I eat weird stuff now, crab legs and sushi.
I'm more interested in the fact that Catty always digs for such controversial topics on the internet as to guage how many responses she will get?

[finn's mom]

It is odd to me that they are just now coming up with a rule that will protect the squirrels from abuse. You'd think it would not only already be a written rule, but an unspoken one as well.

[RICHARD]

God forbid any of us gets stuck in the woods and has to forage for a bite to eat.

Religous camp counselors aren't my pick to teach me how to survive in the wild....

First of all, who the eff is throwing sticks at a squirrel?

That's the moron to take to task.

The misguided counselors decide to be Bear Grylls/Les Stroud and kill and grill the poor animal.


Then the wussie campers decide to complain.

All these little AHs have no problem ordering the Mcnuggets or the Buffalo Wings.

Like, where does your Spencer steak, chicken nuggets or Quarter Pounders come from?

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When I was a kid I saw a pig shot in the head, skinned and made into chops, bacon and everything else.

It made me a little more aware of where my pork comes from.

[CathyBogart]

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/show...=131510&page=2

Boys between the ages of 8 and 11

"(He) made it very clear to everyone there that they didn't need to be celebrating this and parading around."

But some of the girls at the camp learned of the squirrel roast and complained to their parents when the camp was over last weekend. Two families phoned the camp and called for the counsellor in his early 20s to be fired.

[caseysmom]

As I said before, I would like to know a lot more about the story, i.e., what were the ages of the children and were they children who had been in a camping environment before? A teenager would, I am sure, have not batted an eye. Even younger children might not have been traumatized if they have grown up in a rural area and been exposed to a lot of hunting. I have friends with young children and they are used to hunting (and eating) what they hunt. I was not raised that way so it might have bothered me more than kids like that. More info is definitely needed.

I have two teenagers and let me assure you they would have batted an eye.

[Pam]

I have two teenagers and let me assure you they would have batted an eye.

Probably batting an eye was not the best choice of words. I do believe it is a regional thing and also there would be different reactions between boys and girls and at different ages. Kids brought up in that environment would probably not have had the same response as your children (or mine). Also age does matter. If my son had been there, as a teenager, he would have probably thought it was interesting, maybe even cool. My daughter, on the other hand, would have screamed EWWW!

Wom, you will never get me to eat possum!! LOL! I used to cringe when Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies used to make it in their mansion when they moved to Californey!

[caseysmom]

Yes I am sure it is regional, kids raised around farming etc would definetely have a different outlook. My kids can hardly stand to eat any kind of meat let alone seeing a fluffy cute squirell cooked.

[Alysser]

I was/and am being raised in a residential area. My town is certainly by no means a HUGE city, we're more country but my neighborhood and neighborhoods surrounding me are all city like. We have normal shopping centers, etc. Anyway, I can tell you most people I know would have been digusted, me included. Once me, my dad, and my brother were in a car and my brother was driving. A deer hit the car and it died. Before we called the police some guy in an old beat-up Ford pick-up truck asked if my brother wanted the deer. He took it home and probably ate it. I was absolutely digusted. That is not something people around here do, or anyone I know of. That was not how we were raised so it's just odd to us.

I remember in bible camp once a kid picked up a frog, and killed it or hurt it at least. Someone told on him, and the consouller went beserk. She stated "These are god creatures and you're supposed to respect them!" the kid was crying histerically. Anyway, my bible camp was the complete opposite of this one. It's just weird to me.

[Jessika]

I was/and am being raised in a residential area. My town is certainly by no means a HUGE city, we're more country but my neighborhood and neighborhoods surrounding me are all city like. We have normal shopping centers, etc. Anyway, I can tell you most people I know would have been digusted, me included. Once me, my dad, and my brother were in a car and my brother was driving. A deer hit the car and it died. Before we called the police some guy in an old beat-up Ford pick-up truck asked if my brother wanted the deer. He took it home and probably ate it. I was absolutely digusted. That is not something people around here do, or anyone I know of. That was not how we were raised so it's just odd to us.

My uncle is a hunter, and he'll do that too. What's more traumatizing to someone -- seeing a dead deer decomposing on the side of the road, or his death to not be in vain and be eaten? I don't see anything wrong with something like that, my uncle has picked up deer that he's seen someone hit (by accident, of course) and brought it home to eat.

I by no means live out in the country, but I guess I was just exposed to that type of stuff when I was younger. I would rather any animal's death not be in vain than just lay there and rot (in this squirrel's case though, the counselor definitely SHOULD NOT have thrown anything at it). But that's just me.

[cali]

I live is Sask. so I have more of this story, that artical is VERY short lol.basicly there are a LOT of squirrles in the area, always getting into things and destroying the kids candy and such. the stick was thrown AT the squirrel on purpose, when he injured the squirrels paw(yes, thats all he injured) he then killed the squirrel and roasted it. the Dqurrile thing happend in front of the younge boys, when the Girls heard about it, they got really upset and told their parents, who complained. the counceller is not getting any reprimend at all, the onlyu thing that came of it, is a new rule they you are no longer allowed to abuse Squirrles aat the camp.

[caseysmom]

I live is Sask. so I have more of this story, that artical is VERY short lol.basicly there are a LOT of squirrles in the area, always getting into things and destroying the kids candy and such. the stick was thrown AT the squirrel on purpose, when he injured the squirrels paw(yes, thats all he injured) he then killed the squirrel and roasted it. the Dqurrile thing happend in front of the younge boys, when the Girls heard about it, they got really upset and told their parents, who complained. the counceller is not getting any reprimend at all, the onlyu thing that came of it, is a new rule they you are no longer allowed to abuse Squirrles aat the camp.

I hurt my foot last week, hope that camp counselor isn't around to put me out of my misery What a moron.