Animal rights campaigners outraged as Texas cheerleader poses alongside the animals she kills

[n2doc]

Global animal lovers are up in arms over a teenage Texas girl's love of killing big African game, so much so that they're even demanding she be banned from posting pictures of herself smiling alongside her trophies online.

Nineteen-year-old Kendall Jones claims photos of dead hippos, elephants, lions and other beasts on Facebook are a testament to her hunting skills and dedication to game preservation.

But critics are appalled by the teen's beaming social media and are calling Kendall sick and depraved for killing the rare animals and boasting about it online.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2675807/Animal-lover-outrage-blonde-Texas-cheerleader-smiles-dozens-photos-alongside-rare-big-game-hunts-African-safaris.html

Sick person.

[Coventina]

1. Disgusting. What a scumbag!

Not just animal lovers, but anyone with a conscience should be outraged.

These animals are endangered!

on edit: I would strongly consider putting a graphic warning on this. These pictures are deeply disturbing. Just suggesting, I'm glad you posted this thread.

[trumad]

2. Let's say for a moment it is for conservation

Then why the smilie pose?

[Sunlei]

4. about $200,000++ in canned hunt fees in those 3 disgusting pictures alone.

[Fawke Em]

5. Her external beauty quotient went to zero.

She's obviously demented and evil on the inside.

[LittleBlue]

6. Are elephants still protected?

That is disgusting.

[theHandpuppet]

10. Get this one...

Big 5: Jones says her first kill was a rare African white rhino, part of her quest to bag the Big 5 African game animals (rhino, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion)



She's a vile piece of filth!!!

[Arkana]

18. And a felon, apparently, because aren't they an endangered species?

[Jenoch]

28. Whatever she is doing would fall under the laws of the country in which she is hunting.

[d_r]

32. black rhinos are endangered

There are two subspecies ofvwhite rhinos, the northern subspecies that is basically extinct ( there are seven left, 4 of them can breed) and the southern species which is threatened (~17k in wild).

She is a horrible entitled person.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. I'm sure she's killing them to feed her poverty stricken family. Rah!

[n2doc]

30. Oh no, she's killing them to feed poverty-stricken African Families

Really. That's her rationalization, as given in the article, for killing the elephant.

Not like she could have done more just by taking the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in these hunts and using that to fight hunger and other problems.....

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I would love to be a fly on the wall when she's conversing with her group of cronies.

Ten to one that their comments are tinged with signs of sociopathic sentiments.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. 'Dedication to game preservation'

She wants to preserve the 'game' of shooting animals needlessly.

There is nothing 'conservation' or 'preservation' about shooting animals.

Simply another repulsive, self-centered ass who will happily help drive species into extinction for the temporary 'pleasure' of slaughtering them and putting their carcasses on her walls.

[dilby]

11. Ha, if that would have been a guy no one would have cared. But....

since it's a woman there is this awesome double standard, because we all know women can't possibly enjoy hunting and her only purpose in life is to be pretty for a man.

And about her hunting, good for her, it's not my thing but who am I to say she can't do something that is legal and enjoy it.

[n2doc]

12. No, there was outrage when Trump's sons did the same crap

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101482994

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002425330

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002417444

You may wish to question your assumptions...

[dilby]

20. Was it what he did or who he was?

People do this crap all the time, only time it makes the DU radar is when it's a famous person or someone who paid an outrageous amount of money for the hunt. The only reason Trumps son was mentioned on DU was well because it was Trumps son. If it would have been Mr. Mailman's Son no one would have given a shit.

And the only reason people are up in arms about this Girl is because they think she is attractive and should not be hunting.

[n2doc]

24. People may do this stuff 'all the time' but it doesn't make the press

If you have some sort of beef about discrimination it should be with them. I would guarantee if someone posts pics of happy hunters posing with the corpses of endangered animals they have just slaughtered, it will generate outrage. There was an article about an auction to kill a rare Rhino, a few months back, for charity; that too generated outrage.

[Coventina]

13. Wha????

Trophy hunters are scum, regardless of gender.

[Arkana]

19. Nothing to do with her hunting.

If she'd posed with a moose, or a boar, or a white-tailed deer, I wouldn't care.

But these animals are endangered. She's committing crimes.

[dilby]

22. No she is not.

If she was committing a crime she would be arrested, what she is doing is perfectly legal.

[sarisataka]

27. I know many women hunters

I get venison from them since i rarely hunt myself. I think it is great that they are doing a "man's " activity.

I have zero issue hunt for food, even if the hunters have options such as a grocery. Most who do it, that I know, also donate to conservation groups. Sometimes it is even sadly needed to kill other animals such as lions because human actions have so messed up a biome that intervention is needed to keep it from getting even worse.

However trophy hunting, for nothing more than self aggrandizement is just disgusting. Age and gender do not matter.

She wants to hunt-fine. She wants a show-ok. Make it into something positive, not a slaughterfest

[DrDan]

40. what a load . . . simply disgusting for either

[bullwinkle428]

14. In 5 years, she'll be Fox News's "next America's (RW) sweetheart"!

[Triana]

15. ALL are endangered species. Should be ILLEGAL to kill them - anywhere.

Shameful. Cruel. Ignorant.

[Jenoch]

31. I am against most trophy hunting.

However, hyperbole does not help the cause.

Hippos, cape buffalo, and springbok are not endangered species.

[damnedifIknow]

16. Why do people do this?

I've seen people posing with their kills many times on FB and just what is this supposed to prove? You're tough? So tough to lay in wait and then kill an animal with a weapon. Now to make it sporting I suggest you go after a lion unarmed.

[Rhinodawg]

17. That is total disgusting.

[frogmarch]

21. Awful!

Despicable (word I can't say here.)

[alp227]

23. Wow, Texas Tech can't escape the negative headlines.

first the football player who punched another person in the face now the cheerleader who trophy hunts. Yikes. (This woman is a cheerleader at Texas Tech University.)

[snooper2]

25. There is more to this if people would read, I don't like her killing the lions

but she is part of some conservation efforts there as well- BURN HER AT THE STAKE LOL



We hunted Leopard in a Communal Lands area of Zimbabwe where leopard had killed 107 head of cattle over a single year. There are many parts of Zimbabwe where there is an abundant population of Leopard that wreak havoc on the livestock of the farmers in the village. Instead of the villagers killing the leopard to prevent livestock damage, permits are sold to hunters to do this for them. By selling the permits, not only is a problemed animal taken care of, but the money for the permit goes back into the community for water wells, schools and community improvements. These people in this area live in mud huts and have no electricity, the money derived from hunting is badly needed to help just provide the bare necessities such as water and shelter. All of these people pretty much work on a barter system of trading crops, chickens, goats and cattle between eachother to live throughout the year. After 14 days of hard hunting, getting up at 3am, walking miles upon miles cutting tracks, I finally took my leopard. This is most definitely the hardest hunt I have ever been on. Thanks Comre Safaris for this experience of a lifetime.



Here is the S African Vet administering treatment to the White Rhino I darted during the Green Hunt. The vet drew blood, took DNA samples, took body and head measurements, treated a leg injury and administered antibiotics. I felt very lucky to be part of such a great program and procedure that helps the White Rhino population through conservation.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

36. "Conservation" --

The new fig leaf used by murders these days to rationalize their brutality.

I piss on their brand of "conservation".

[joeglow3]

41. Isn't a dart nonfatal?

Sounds like she just fired the shot that put this specific under so treatment could be provided.

[jmowreader]

26. Rich people's children. Sheesh.

You'd have to be crazier than Louie Gohmert to hunt something that likes eating humans with a bow. Check the first pic.

[catbyte]

29. OMFG. I have no words. What a horrific, ugly piece of shit she is. Death porn at its worst. I

shouldn't say this, but I wouldn't mind seeing her smug, arrogant, cowardly mug stuffed & mounted on a wall someplace. Her smiling just makes it all the more hideous. What a fucking worthless waste of silicone.

[Amaya]

33. How can you be happy to kill?

I understand for food. But she is truly happy she killed! Sick and just wrong.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. Am I a horrible person for saying --

that I have a fantasy of spending a little time alone with her (and sick fucks like her) in a room, just me, her, and a bow and arrow? Just a little taste for her...

[ryan_cats]

37. I hate this big game hunting and its hunters.

I hate this big game hunting and its hunters. I don't get killing for sport. If you do it to have venison on your table and in your freezer I can understand that but these people are taking lives for the fun of the kill. Very disturbing.

I wonder if she harmed small animals when she was young, a true path to serial killing if there ever was one.

I wasn't even aware you could legally kill elephants, can she harvest the tusks, too?

[Jenoch]

39. I doubt she killed small animals when she was young.

She was influenced by her father who hunted African big game and she apparently started to go with him when she was 9 years old.

[undeterred]

38. Gloating over her kill

She is one sick lady. She has the soul of a mass murderer.