I did read this clown's response on the link. Another spoiled, arrogant celebrity who thinks whatever he does is right--the redneck variety. Knew there was some reason his music always made me feel like ralphing...

This is, unfortunately, the mentality some C/W stars encourage--namely, if there's a regulation on anything, it's wrong, including the idea that some animals are endangered and need to be conserved: they reckon that-all's jes' a lie cooked up by the gun-hating pinko hippie liberals in the Federal Government. Of course, there are lots of others who go to bat for conservation and wildlife causes, who would no more run down a turtle than they would a cat or dog, and comport themselves like ladies and gentlemen--not to say, like grown-ups.

Notice I say "like grown-ups." The last thing I would want to do, if I, let's say, shot a wolf on protected land, is go out and announce to all the world that I had done it. Right off the bat, I'd hear from everyone who loves and respects our wilderness areas, plus a lot of very weird, goofy and possibly dangerous animal rights freaks who think it's slavery to keep a dog or ride a horse, and cannibalism if you eat a cow.

This is the behavior of an immature, stupid man acting out like a thirteen-year-old punk to get attention. Whether he actually did it or not is immaterial at this point. Had he even played the gentleman when called out and said: "You know what, I apologize--that was completely tasteless; I had just hit one by accident, realized what it was, and was trying to joke about how I was in trouble; I didn't realize how many people like turtles--" any of those things, he could probably have gotten out of this. Thanks to his smart-mouth response, I doubt a herper in the country will buy a Blake Shelton CD from now on...and we have friends and relatives who support us in that. Give him a couple weeks of dealing with the fallout from this, he'll be...shall we say, singing a different tune?