Animals are capable of suffering, not so different from us. Those who have cared for a sick or injured pet understand this.

Thank you to Sam Coffee and Lynn Melling for their responses to my letters. My opinions are based on a lifelong observation of the atrocities associated with the senseless slaughter of animals.

From my perspective and experience, I feel that hunting is all about the harassment, the torment, the chase, the kill and the adrenaline rush of the hunter.

This oppression of animals appears to enjoy the great rewards of domination, self-image and arrogance. To me, that’s wrong, unethical, immoral and needs to end.

Many videos posted online will illustrate what actions make some hunters proud and unveil the “killing nature” they expose. Google “Arizona Buffalo Hunting” or learn about the buffalo hazing operation that runs buffalo from Montana to Yellowstone. This particular operation is designed to evict native wild buffalo from Montana due to Montana’s livestock interests.

For three days in May, taxpayer-funded government horsemen, law enforcement officers and a helicopter harassed the Yellowstone ecosystem, flying sometimes barely 20 feet above the earth. Buffalo, including pregnant buffalo moms and newborn cows, were run up to 12 miles in this hazing operation. (http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org).

Are these senseless acts of violence not wrong to you?

Unfortunately, millions of innocent animals are slaughtered or seriously injured due to our unwillingness to see the subject of hunting from a different perspective.

Many ex-hunters and ex-animal management experts have had an epiphany and now have compassion for wild animals.

I’m simply asking the readers to take a moment to see the subjects of hunting and the inhumane treatment of animals in a new light.

Consider Meatless Mondays.