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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper burdened with a question as he views today’s cold, slush-covered wintery landscape: within the strict dictates of evolution was there a connection between the humans’ inclination to “hunt” which means tromping around in the snowy woods with a gun, and his escaping both migration and hibernation as means of surviving winter?
Put another way: how is it that the alleged most intelligent species neither gets the hell south to warmer environs or crawls in a hole to comfortably ride out the next four months?
As an accommodation to this aberration, the Wisconsin traditional deer hunting season starts Saturday, which is apparently the ultimate exercise of “if you are given a lemon…..”
Approached realistically, the keeper no longer hunts deer and finds traveling south to be too burdensome which leaves him the only option of crawling in a hole and sleeping until April.
He will be talking it over with Phyllis who has never been a hunter and always has good suggestions.
