Please do not renew the…

Please do not renew the licences for penned dog “hunting” facilities. Teaching dogs to chase and attack animals in enclosures does not teach the dog to hunt. It teaches the dog to bite other animals and possibly children. The guardians of these dogs are putting both the public, domestic animals, and their own dogs at risk.

These canned hunts pit dogs against animals who have been trapped and placed in an enclosure with no means of escape. Please do not allow any new captive “hunting” ranches in Ontario. Please mandate that the existing facilities be closed immediately and the captive animals be returned to the wild or moved to a sanctuary. Please also ban the practice of encouraging dogs to chase and/or attack any animal, wild or domestic. “Hunting” trials are cruel blood sports from the distant past.