I didn't know that hunting was popular in Italy. Most Italians I know aren't too crazy about having pets in the house but they like to respect nature. They like to feed ducks and other animals in nature.

I know you can be a hunter and respect animals. I may be a vegitarian but I know that people have diferent beliefs. I know if you are a hunter you can train yourself to kill the animal instantly so it doesn't suffer like a lion does in nature. I also know that if you are "real" hunter you only kill to eat and not just for the fun of it. My uncle is a hunter. He hunts deer even though my aunt has pet deers. They live in the woods so my aunt put out food for a deer and her child in the winter time. Now my aunt always puts food out for them and those two go to eat at her house. I don't know why it just stayed at only those two. When I wasn't a vegitarian I liked to eat deer meat. The only thing I didn't like was that my uncle kept the skin of a deer and stuffed it. A fully stuffed deer sits in their livingroom as a trophy. TRo me it's a little freaky. I feel like the deer is haunting the house. lol

Ya, but anyway....My uncle never really feeds animal in nature. It's my aunt who does that. He doesn't harm them either though. He only hunts deer for food and apparently to stuff some of them as a trophy.

Of course I'm assuming it's common for small villages in Italy to hunt. I would think more so for survival rather than for the sport of hunting.

Okay, I'm going way off topic from the origional subject now, so I shall stop here. lol