I cannot believe what I have…

I cannot believe what I have just read: after 25 years, the government wants to reinstate the use of trapped wild animals in dog training. It's not enough that we are destroying their habitat relentlessly, we now want to go back to torturing them endlessly until they die in a training session or of misuse and terror.

Even if you cannot understand that these are sentient creatures capable of suffering, surely you can anticipate that, in this networked world, it won't be long before some appalling footage of this barbarism leaks, goes viral, and brings all hell down on the heads of everyone involved. Do you think your political masters will stand up for you then? You'll be thrown under the bus so fast your head won't even have time to spin.

So, stop NOW, before you do something that is morally disgusting and bound to be a public relations disaster of the first order. There are many other effective ways to train dogs in hunting, guarding and alerting that do not involve the extended torture of wild animals. You know this, because you've been seeing them used for 25 years.