CAGED ANIMALS, WILD HUNTERS

I am sickened that I belong to the same species as Ty Bourgeois, Dan Moody and other trophy “hunters” (“Caged Animals, Wild Hunters,” by Michael Goodman, Nov. 10). I have always been disgusted by those who buy wild animals, only to have them destroyed when they maul little Jennifer or eat Fluffy the poodle. But Bourgeois and his kind are unspeakably vile. For a man to shoot a terrified, declawed, hand-raised leopard while his depraved cohorts cheer him on--this is the act of a loathsome coward, desperately in search of the manhood he’ll never find. My Sunday School lessons taught that evil people like Bourgeois and Moody should be forgiven. But I would much rather throw them to the lions--the ones with claws, of course.

LOTTIE HOLDEN

Los Angeles