Obituaries
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012:
Obituaries
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do
lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”
–William Shakespeare
Lynn M. Gorfinkle, 64, of Redding, Connecticut, died on
December 25, 2011 in Danbury Hospital. The longtime president of
the Animal Rights Alliance of Fairfield County, and active in cat
rescue with her friend Natalie Jarnstadt of Project Save A Cat,
Gorfinkle was best known for opposition to deer hunting and culling.
Gorfinkle “would not, if she were stranded on a desert island with
only a rabbit, eat that rabbit in order to survive,” wrote Rob
Inglis of Yale Daily News in 2006. “She thinks that modern-day
American sport hunters–especially deer hunters–are morally
deficient and probably ‘hung like hamsters.'” Hunting media
denounced Gorfinkle from coast to coast three years later, after a
bowhunter wounded a deer who fled to the Gorfinkle property before
dying. Her husband Mike Gorfinkle refused to allow the hunter to
retrieve the deer. “If someone’s going to eat that deer, I want it
to be natural predators, not some hunter,” Lynn Gorfinkle told
reporters. Coyotes dragged away the carcass about two weeks later. Read more