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This was phased out for a reason in 1997. Why are we back tracking?

Hunters can train dogs without keeping wildlife in captivity. There are enough scent products available on market to allow for training activies outside of what is being proposed, and training programs exist in the US that take hunters with their dogs out into the woods, teaching the dogs in real environments where wildlife natually exist. Businesses should adapt their model to these regulations, not force the government to re-evaluate cruel exceptions. Such facilities can have property that exists for training, or obtain license to train on crown lands, which have wildlife naturally present without captive presence.

Competitions hosted at these facilities can also exist for hunters in the wild giving the animals they hunt a fair chance. To capture them, keep them in captivity only to have them at a terrifying disadvantage and hunted in closed facilities is cruel and unusal, and serves no purpose but human ego.

We aren't a society of hunter-gatherers. Hunting exists for sport, which is fine if its a fair hunt; but when wildlife is captive for ego and to make it easier for the hunter, it shouldn't be legal. Saying this is for business when there are alternative business models is a ploy to make their lives easier at the expense of wildlife, which are already losing habitat to urban sprawl (because let's destroy the greenbelt too in the name of housing crisis while not actually changing rules around investment properties).
What grounds are we leaving for wildlife if we take their habitat and then use them in cruel ways for sport; then claim urban populations require protection from wildlife. Enough is enough.