Letting Kids Watch While Skinning an Animal

[hsullyc]

Our kids have fit rite in to the team.We process our game as a family,everyone has a job.To think I used to do 90% by myself.I hope someday I can just shoot animals and they will do the rest,it will never happen but one can dream.

 

[Stomper]

I am an avid hunter, and here we are another year, and the arguement has once again arose....

I have a 5 and 7 year old boy, who want to watch me skin a deer or elk, (If and when I get one) but my wife thinks they cant handle it..

Tell me what you think... all opinons welcome.. please...

Thanks

Sounds like a case of "projection" to me....

 

[Crazyeye24]

Don't have them watch, have them help. I was plucking and gutting ducks and geese when I was 5 years old. You don't like it at that age but you grow up not having it bother you. I really enjoyed gutting my dad's first elk. If you don't let them help there is a greater chance they will grow up to join PETA....just my opinion.

 

[giddyupgo55]

Let them watch. My kids wanted to help when I would have one hanging. Also did not bother the wife at all.

 

[U201494]

Sons and daughters both could not wait to see what's on the inside of everything we killed - fur, fin, or feather.
Actually wanted to do the field dressing on the big game. Harmed? Scarred for life? Not at all. As preschoolers they got a kick out of playing with the legs of ducks and pheasants; removed at the knee joint and then pulling the tendons to make the toes curl up and wave.
Let your youngsters learn something about anatomy and where food comes from, if they want to.

 

[Sabertooth]

Sons and daughters both could not wait to see what's on the inside of everything we killed - fur, fin, or feather.
Actually wanted to do the field dressing on the big game. Harmed? Scarred for life? Not at all. As preschoolers they got a kick out of playing with the legs of ducks and pheasants; removed at the knee joint and then pulling the tendons to make the toes curl up and wave.
Let your youngsters learn something about anatomy and where food comes from, if they want to.

My wife and I grew up in hunting and fishing familys so when our first son wanted to watch us clean up a deer we let. As well as his two brothers when the came along. Never thought about not letting them watch or help until came across this post. The boys are now 35 -37 and 39 and they are not warped. I showed them how to play with the chicken legs. They poked the deer eye balls to see what would happen, pretend bull fight with the horns.
And questions???? I had to get an annomy lesson to learn about the parts I did not know about. I wonder if I was that much of a pest while my dad and granddad was fixin up a deer or cow.
My oldest got to clean his first elk this year. My elk but he vollentered. He did an excellent job.

 

[westcoastal]

If they arr interested... Then encourage it... Good real life experience... And answer any questions they might throw at you... Let them know the importance of the whole process.

 

[rickoshay]

The sooner the better we don"t need any more tree huggers

 

[wence5]

How else are they going to learn? If they are interested, let them watch, and even help. Get them interested in hunting and fishing at an early age, and when they get a little older you won't have to worry what they are doing, they'll be hunting with you.

 

[wence5]

it is a truly sick society that can eat meat and cant believe it comes from an animal that has been killed and butchered os they can eat. by the way i just described ours.

"Hunting is cruel, and you should get you meat at the store, where they make it in the back.'' This was on the editorial page of the San Francisco Chronicle, written by a PETA drone.

 

[salmonriverjohn]

If they arr interested... Then encourage it... Good real life experience... And answer any questions they might throw at you... Let them know the importance of the whole process.

It look's like all three are keeper's

 

[kshawj]

i think it should be more of it more of a learning experience for them, then to just let them watch. i remember my dad having me hold the legs and showing me where to cut in certain places.