It was shocking to me to…

It was shocking to me to learn via a Change.org petition that at this time, during humanity's current efforts of pressing back against a lack of empathy in the world, that there could actually still be such cruel and unfair practices, sanctioned by the government of Ontario, as what this proposal is suggesting.

To keep sentient, fear-feeling creatures penned-up and then release them into an unescapable enclosure for them to be terrorized, hunted and torn apart by dogs training to kill them, is nothing short of horror-film material. If you switch the image of a rabbit to that of a family cat and the image of a coyote to that of your family's "four-legged best friend", then you will see what I, and thousands like me see. A horrific, cruel and vicious way for some spoiled dogs to get their jollies out - quite frankly.

Claiming that this cruelty is necessary for the training of dogs to hunt in the wild, can be easily countered with the empathetically non-ignorant suggestions of non- sentient training tools, of which there are likely many - and if not, then give the pet product industry some time and they'll set you up without the need of exploiting and viscously slaughtering yet another cohort of nature's beautiful, fearful, loving creatures.

At the risk of dramatizing the reality, please do not approve this proposal - for the sake of our humanity.