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Eliza Dushku Boasts About Hunting Elk, Upsets PETA
August 8th, 2008 9:13am EDT

Former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Eliza Dushku has upset animal rights activists after revealing she hunts elk and deer.

The actress proudly showed off her bow and arrow skills on late-night chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday and boasted about killing a deer in Oklahoma last Christmas. She also revealed she was hunting for elk in Colorado when she landed her role in upcoming TV series Dollhouse.

Realizing the studio audience had turned on her over her Bambi-killing antics, Dushku joked, "My mother called me herself and said, 'You're a liberal from New England, what the 'f' are you doing in Oklahoma shooting things."

And when Kimmel took the actress to task for her hunting boasts, she defended her actions by stating, "When you're in a relationship with somebody you have to, like, experience things that they do." She added, "A lot of people eat meat... and I eat what I kill."

Dushku's remarks have angered People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists, who insist the actress should put down her bow and stop hunting.

A spokeswoman for the organisation says, "Slaying bloodthirsty vampires on Buffy is brave, but slaying innocent animals where they live and raise their families is cowardly and cruel. Eliza is sorely out of step with the rest of the country; 95 per cent of Americans oppose hunting."

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Originally posted by lwaves:
Maybe this wasn't the best thing to say on TV but at least she was being honest.

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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
. I'm all for the 'ethical treatment' of animals but not at the expense of the 'ethical treatment' of humans.

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

Elk: "You hear what happened to Mitch"
Deer: "No what?"
Elk: "Bugger got taken out by that Faith chick off Buffy!"
Deer: "Man!! That's bitchin. That's how I wanna go"
Elk: "Yeah I hear he's hanging over her hallway now"

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Shut up, Whozit.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
You're a good sport, though.

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Once again Ric has us rolling in the aisles.

I eat meat. Love the stuff, but I'm not exactly a hunter lover. I'll give Eliza a thumbs up for using a bow and eating her kill....it's more than most hunters do.

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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:

peta needs a hug.

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I just can't stand the idiots that scope & shoot from a quarter mile away then take the head to put up in their garage as if they've achieved something any 10 year old couldn't have.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

People who hunt and take down deer at 200 yards have my respect.

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Originally posted by lwaves:
Eliza killed a deer, not Bambi.

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Originally posted by Hero:
the Oklahoma Hellmouth.

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Originally posted by Khyron:


I avoided this thread up to now because hunting for "sport" is something that really gets my blood boiling.

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Oklahoma Hellmouth

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I walk point, he walks drag about 100 and some yards back, we use short range headset radio for this - I tap on the mic twice when I have us a target, and he climbs a tree with his linemans gaff-boots.

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