Squeamish girlfriend?

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My girlfriend is very girly and doesn't like to see animals die, or blood but wants to spend time with me at my camp:confused:

I landed afew really nice pickeral this weekend and she nearly cried because I wouldn't let them go, then she nearly threw up when I cleaned them then wouldn't eat any when I fried them up (Damn they were good to, getting hungry just thinking about them!) and she wants to spend time at my camp during hunting season. She'd probably have a heart attack if I shot bambi :eek:


Anyone ever have this problem before? Is there anything that can help the situation or will she just get over it?
 
Leave her at home during the hunt, if your hunting with others. It makes for uneasyness withing the group if a certain person is whinning about the kills etc. If it is just going to be you and her, well take her along, and let her slowly watch over your shoulder as you do things. Maybe she'll learn to like it. If she doesn't, tell her to take a mini vaction of her own while your hunting. That is what my girlfriend does. keeps us both happy.
 
It is up to her to start to change her outlook on hunting and fishing. maybe if she tride to fish and then clean her own stuff she would get a better handal on it. My doughter just shot a beer her first and was up to her eyes in blood and guts and loved every minit of it. Maybe if she gets her hands durty it mite help her to get over her problem with it.
 
I took a GF shooting rabbits once cos "we never do anything together"
Huge mistake! I 12 gauged a couple of rabbits and she freaked out. Her whole family were disneyfied tree huggers.
If you want to keep this girl around you might be better keeping your hunting seperate. Can you make time to just take her camping? Nothing beats loitering within tent!;)
 
Jimbobob08 said:
My girlfriend is very girly and doesn't like to see animals die, or blood but wants to spend time with me at my camp:confused:

I landed afew really nice pickeral this weekend and she nearly cried because I wouldn't let them go, then she nearly threw up when I cleaned them then wouldn't eat any when I fried them up (Damn they were good to, getting hungry just thinking about them!) and she wants to spend time at my camp during hunting season. She'd probably have a heart attack if I shot bambi :eek:


Anyone ever have this problem before? Is there anything that can help the situation or will she just get over it?
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Give her the speach before you go, tell her straight out what your going to do and then tell her straightup that if she gives you any flack about it she can walk home.

your only option is to be direct and be honest, she either loves you the way you are, or she loves what she can turn you into..... your choice there ;)

take her, have some fun and make sure to kill bambie and eat as much of it in camp as you can.
 
I agree leave her at home come hunting time.Seriously if she freaked out over a pickeral (an ugly but tasty fish)what is she going to do if you or one of your hunting buds shoots a beautiful bambi?How are you going to feel if she goes off on a PETA rant on one of your hunting buddies that bags a deer.
Either you would lose your hunting buddy or your girlfreind depending on which side you take.Not worth the aggravation.Take her out "hunting" and camping with a camera.

If your talking about just you and her going you could try with some small game.Maybe some grouse if she can handle that try her on something cute,like some "bunnies".Little steps might bring her around.

My old lady was the same way,I leave her at home.She'll eat the moose and deer I bring home but wants nothing to do with how it gets there.I'm pretty sure she's just pretending to herself that it came from the grocery store.
 
Jimbobob08 said:
My girlfriend is very girly and doesn't like to see animals die, or blood but wants to spend time with me at my camp:confused:

I landed afew really nice pickeral this weekend and she nearly cried because I wouldn't let them go, then she nearly threw up when I cleaned them then wouldn't eat any when I fried them up (Damn they were good to, getting hungry just thinking about them!) and she wants to spend time at my camp during hunting season. She'd probably have a heart attack if I shot bambi :eek:


Anyone ever have this problem before? Is there anything that can help the situation or will she just get over it?
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Tell her that according to Nirvana fish don't have any feelings... so get over it.
 
thrush said:
It is up to her to start to change her outlook on hunting and fishing. maybe if she tride to fish and then clean her own stuff she would get a better handal on it. My doughter just shot a beer her first and was up to her eyes in blood and guts and loved every minit of it. Maybe if she gets her hands durty it mite help her to get over her problem with it.
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your doughter just shot her first beer huh!! :D Congrats to her, was it a lager or ale?? :D
 
I hunt alone so no hunting buddys to piss off. I'll try giving her a talk before hand next time so its not such a shock. I'll also have to let her know animals can smell, took her 2 hours to get ready just to go to camp:eek: moose could smell her from 10miles away:slap:

Grads on your daughter getting her first bear. I bet you were just as happy as she was :D
 
I read this post to my girlfriend, who is also a huge animal lover and who doesn't hunt herself because of her unwillingness to actually do the killing/watch it done.

Her advice: get over it or choose to remove yourself from the situation.

As an example, last season my partner and I brought home a whitetail doe for meat and she rode with us in the truck home. She came out on the trip, stayed at the farmhouse while us hunters went to fill tags (and played with the dogs and about a gazillion farm cats - she was almost dizzy from the cat overload, being a cat lover extraordinaire), and was there to greet us all when we got home. She came to look in the bed of the truck and see what my partner had tagged, and told us it was a good eating deer. She even helped support the head while we hung it for skinning back at home.

When it came time for the butchering, she excused herself and went to play with the dogs in the house's backyard while my partner and I (and my Mother, wonderful woman that she is!) de-boned the deer.

Her position: she likes to eat it, but knows enough about herself to excuse herself during the kill and the cut. She's not hypocritical like many carnivores today - she knows and accepts where it comes from, and is grateful for its provision by those who harvest it; she just knows that the killing is not something she could do unless she was bare-bones starving.

She lets me hunt and shoot to my heart's content, and she's a whiz in the kitchen with whatever I could possibly bring home (and is excited if/when I do)! And this, gentlemen, is why someday she's going to be a wife.

My advice to you is to either advise your squeamish girlfriend to keep quiet about her revulsion for the hunt/kill and act in a pleasant manner to you AND YOUR HUNTING PARTNERS, or accept the fact that hunt camp is for hunters and those who approve of/accept it. If I was one of your hunting buds, who made that trip once a year with great anticipation of a great getaway/experience, and your girlfriend was constantly whining about how barbaric we all were (or getting directly in my face for being "an evil hunter"), I'd be more than a little upset.

-M
 
Does she think those packages of steak, pork chops and chicken in the grocery store grow on trees? Do yourself a favour and leave her at home, if she almost cried over a fish she will ####e herself when you start gutting a deer.
 
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If she doesn't want to see the kill and butcher she should either stay home or keep herself insulated from that part of the process. Its only going to make her further dislike the fact you are hunting or turn her off the meat. Don't spoil a good thing. Hunting should be reserved for those inclined towards it, as its not likely to make converts out of the squeamish. A good steak however is likely to make a convert, as long as she isn't privy to the process. Ignorance is bliss.
 
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