Animal rights groups and activists are not happy with Kid Rock. The "First Kiss" singer went on a hunting trip with rocker/avid hunter Ted Nugent recently and shot a mountain lion. Nugent shared a picture of Rock holding up his "trophy" on Facebook, where he preemptively called out animal rights groups, dubbing them "braindead squawkers," Billboard notes.
Here's what the "Cat Scratch Fever" singer had to say:
And what a grand conservation New Year it is! HAIL my MotorCity boy KidRock for saving all those muledeer elk & livestock by whacking this magnificent mountain lion. I can hear the braindead squawkers already with their obscene denial that killing lions is wrong. Its legal its necessary its good its beneficial its a damn riot! And these lovely pigwhackers did same on the TX swine while young Rachael Byrd arrowed this fine Oryx with the Bruce Cull tribe! Praise the mighty life giving renewable protein/sport/trophy/FUN! 2015 be good good year so far!
The post was met with an array of comments, both for and against.
"I always thought that Ted Nugent believes in only hunting what he can eat?" one user pointed out. "Nobody eats mountain lions. I get the protecting but that's the circle of life. Mountain lions need to eat to survive too! They don't need to be killed! Not happy with Kid Rock!"
"I understand the part when he says they are helping protect muledeer and elk herds, but THEN he starts talking TROPHY and FUN!?! SMH," another added.
"Like it or not, the mountain lion is not endangered and hunting and killing a mountain lion is legal and monitored by the Department of Conservation," one supporter wrote.
Rock is probably resting easy over the minor public relations blunder seeing how he doesn't "FaceTweet."
"I understand that I'm the old guy now. I turn on my computer and look at porn a little bit, see what's going on in the news, but that's about it. I'm comfortable with that," he told The Guardian.
