Shut Down Cruel Fox Pen Hunts
Captured animals such as coyotes and foxes are placed in pens, then hunting dogs are loosed on them in the confined spaces, where the foxes or coyotes are usually killed. Dozens of dogs, usually walker hounds, are also placed inside the fence with numbers painted on their sides. There%u2019s an electric fence around the perimeter. One local news station aired a video of an exhausted and frightened coyote being torn apart by a number of hounds.
The so called "sport" is nothing other than a violent and ruthless animal massacre, where innocent foxes and coyotes have no chance to spring to safety and when these exausted little creatures have no place left to turn they must face the jaws of the dogs and be brutaly and without mercy be torn apart.
Captured animals such as coyotes and foxes are placed in pens, then hunting dogs are loosed on them in the confined spaces, where the foxes or coyotes are usually killed. Dozens of dogs, usually walker hounds, are also placed inside the fence with numbers painted on their sides. There%u2019s an electric fence around the perimeter. One local news station aired a video of an exhausted and frightened coyote being torn apart by a number of hounds.
The so called "sport" is nothing other than a violent and ruthless animal massacre, where innocent foxes and coyotes have no chance to spring to safety and when these exausted little creatures have no place left to turn they must face the jaws of the dogs and be brutaly and without mercy be torn apart.
We the undersigned are aware of a legal practice referred to as fox pen hunting. We believe this to be an abusive and inhumane practice. We ask that this practice be stopped and these types of facilities be shut down.
In the wild, dogs seldom catch a fox because the fox knows where the escape cover is. He'll be underground before the dogs get close. It's not quite that way in these hunts. A fresh fox or coyote put into a pen doesn't know where the escape cover is. The usual result is that the animal gets caught and killed. That is the reason for the constant need for fresh animals. It drives an illegal market to replenish the stock.
There are numerous documented investigations including agents from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
Furthermore, there is a demonstrated link between violence and cruelty to animals and violence towards humans. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies, when discussing serious violence to humans, often note that a history of violence to animals is a characteristic in the perpetrator. It is difficult to conceive of such unmitigated and unjustified cruelty as that exhibited in fox pen hunting.
In today%u2019s world, there can be no justification for the continuation of these brutal inhumane, counter educational events. I urge you to take immediate and responsible action to eliminate fox pen hunts.
Thank you for your time and attention in this matter.
It is such a joke. Making up lies to help their failing party, disrespecting their guests and AMERICA most of all. MUCH MORE THAT CANT FIT ON HERE. Fox news is a joke and i am doing more than not watching the news. I am not watching anything on a fox network. FAMILY GUY, Two and a half men, simpsons, and MUCH MORE. Which sucks because I love those shows. DONT WATCH THEM EITHER. Show them that we can take down their whole network!!!!!!!
I know there are alot of blockheads in Georgia who feel that shooting animals increases their manhood, but all pen hunting does, in my eyes, is make these individuals look pathetic. I can understand hunting to eat or hunting to cull overpopulations, but to trap poor animals and then make it impossible for them to escape, is unforgiveable. We need to start stopping this practice now. Maybe the landowners can grow switchgrass and be contibutors to society. Stop this practice now.
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4:31 pm PDT, May 6,
Nicholas Schafer, California
I already don't see a need to hunt and kill these animals, their fur is incredibly difficult to manage, we already have other means of staying warm, and their not that much a bother. But only the laziest bastards hunt like this. |
fox hunting, animal hunting, is selfish, stupid and aweful. If that's your idea of sports... you're a little bit wrong...And if you wear fur...it's because you got something really disgusting to hide...
My old hometown of Bridgewater has fox hunts and they are horrible things, they bring in beautiful red fox which drove out our gray fox. than they go out to destroy the red. and in all the time, people call this fun, and certain parties get rich doing it. disgusting
Stop the massacre
Arrèter ce massacre! C'est de la pure cruauté! Ce que tu fais subir aux animaux, tu est capable de le faire également aux hommes!
We can't support crual practice
How believe in humanity when you see this?
Je suis horrifiée par de telles pratiques qui sont d'une cruauté extrême. L'imagination des hommes est vraiment sans limite lorsqu'il s'agit d'infliger la souffrance aux animaux.
ITS MURDER. ITS INHUMANE & BARBARIC.
THIS IS NOT A SPORT IT IS MURDER
It's nice to know that people can think of more & more cruel & sadistic "sports", shame that they can't do it to the people who think of them! In the meantime this type of behaviour needs to be stopped and the "sportsmen" dealt with by fines & prison.
They have feelings.
WHO PROFITS? State "game" departments: they sell licenses to trappers and commercial fox pen operators. Largely unknown to the public, payrolls and administrative budgets in the wildlife bureaus of state Departments of Natural Resources ("DNRs") come from selling licenses to hunters (an antiquated federal law requires this).
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7:06 pm PDT, Mar 27,
Jo Carlyle, Australia
This makes me sick. |
no more
Hunting is not hunting if the animals are enclosed; this is not a sport. A.
