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A TV presenter has been uk canada goose outlet pictured holding up a big cat he canada goose outlet killed on a hunt before Canada Goose online canada goose black friday sale posting a picture of its sliced organs on social media.

Steve Ecklund, from Alberta, Canada had killed the mountain lion in his home state on Sunday and is pictured grinning as its carcass is held to the camera.

The co host of the Canadian hunting show, The EDGE, is well known for his killing of rams, lions, black bears and lions in Canada and North America and regularly posts updates of himself and his wife, Alison Ecklund, in hunting gear.

Steve and Alison are both fiercely defended by an active pro hunting community online, but in the UK, campaign group Hunt Saboteurs Association have called the sport ‘morally reprehensible’.

On ‘The EDGE’s Canada Goose Online website, Steve is identified as a ‘fair chase hunter’ which means all hunting he participates in is purportedly ethical and all animals are free ranging, so they aren’t confined by gates or barriers.

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In uk canada goose the images posted online, Steve canada goose outlet in usa poses alongside his friends and two beagles as the lion lies on its stomach with blood staining its fur.

The pictures have whipped up debate online as some users claimed Steve is ‘vile’ while others congratulated him on the kill.

Animal rights group PETA have now stepped in and described Steve as ‘a small person with deep seated insecurities’ after seeing the photographs.

A UK based anti hunting campaigner has also called Steve ‘morally reprehensible’ and termed the death of the mountain lion a buy canada goose jacket ‘barbaric act’.

Lee Moon, a spokesperson from campaign group Hunt Saboteurs, said: ‘Whether legal or illegal, and whatever country it occurs in, hunting for sport is morally reprehensible and has no place in a so called civilised society.

‘Links between animal and human abuse are well documented and it’s beyond our comprehension what makes people think this kind of barbaric act is deemed acceptable. This is canada goose outlet new york city a shameful and disgusting act of violence by a blatantly deranged canada goose outlet canada human.’

Nie Schweigan wrote: ‘Those who find pleasure in sadistic behaviors such a murder will reap what they sow. The smile of pure joy canada goose outlet sale holding an innocent dead body is purely psychotic.’

Sue goose outlet canada Ward said: ‘I just cannot believe how you people can enjoy killing these beautiful animals just for fun, canada goose jacket outlet that isn’t sport. Join a firing range to see how talented you really are.

‘These posts are just so sad I would like to think our grandchildren will still be able canada goose outlet store to enjoy nature unless it has been wiped out by greedy and cruel cheap canada goose people.’

A supporter of Steve’s commented canada goose outlet online uk on his post announcing the catch to defend him against the spouting criticism.

Chelsea Paige said: ‘We need to consider the time and effort that is put into such a hunt.

‘It takes work and this man has a celebratory smile on his face because instead of walking into a store and buying beef out of the fridge that canada goose factory outlet had its throat slit in front of a hundred other cows, he had to stalk and hunt and work hard to fill canada goose outlet his freezer and that canadian goose jacket is rewarding.

‘He is not smiling because he is a sick psychotic individual or because he enjoys the fact that he just took life.’

Ecklund poses in a white UnderArmour coat behind a slain deer with huge antlers

A spokeman from PETA said: ‘Only someone dead in heart and head canada goose store could fail to see that mountain lions, wild boars, deer, and other animals are thinking, feeling individuals not ‘things’ to blow away for amusement.

‘Those animals whose lives aren’t taken outright by hunters often endure slow, agonising deaths, leaving their offspring to starve, as they’re unable to fend for themselves after their mothers have been killed by some human trying to compensate for feelings of inadequacy.

‘All most of us see when we look at a photograph of a hunter who gunned down an animal for ‘pleasure’ is photographic evidence of a small person with deep seated insecurities.’.