These facilities should be…

ERO number

019-3685

Comment ID

87309

Commenting on behalf of

Individual

Comment status

Comment approved More about comment statuses

Comment

These facilities should be illegal. This is animal cruelty and poaching-adjacent plain and simple. I am absolutely disgusted with the idea of this practice, we have hunting seasons with laws and regulations for a reason.

Society should do everything possible to protect wild animals, they have a place within the ecosystem and should never be subjected to this kind of torture, for the amusement of humans. If you want your dog to chase coyotes or rabbits away from your crops, they can be trained without resorting to the torture of animals, whether wild 'caught' or raised for this purpose (a whole other area of extreme animal torture).

Naturalist experts and environmental diversity experts should be consulted and they would explain why this practice is as outdated as dog fighting or bull running and should be banned.

Society needs to evolve to be more compassionate and accepting of the rich diversity of our ecosystems and relegate the torture of animals for human pleasure in the distant past. We are better than this and our laws should reflect this.