It is an abomination that…

It is an abomination that penned animal hunting is allowed at all in Ontario. Proposing to expanding this cruel, horrific practice is beyond belief. This is Canada and Ontario, supposedly a modern, civilized country and province. The year is 2023. Why are we acting as though animals have no feelings, no intelligence, no ability to feel pain and terror, when science has shown us, beyond question, that animals have all of these things in abundance. How can we allow animals to be deliberately penned up, with no hope of escape, to be killed by dogs? How can this be called a "sport"? It is horrifying. How would YOU like to be penned up and hunted? Well, animals have the same emotions that you do, the same terrors. How would you feel if your children were to be penned up and hunted by another species? Humans do NOT have the right to do as they please with other species on this planet. We are supposedly civilized. Why are we permitting an activity that pleases people who take pleasure from killing living creatures that have no chance of escape? This isn't hunting, or "training/" This is pure slaughter. It should be banned outright, not expanded.