The quote from John Bell,…

The quote from John Bell, president of the Ontario Sporting Dog Assoc. “the closure of dedicated training and trailing areas have forced hunters to run their dogs in the wild” seems like a desperate attempt to convince you to allow his inhumane practice. People choose to break the law or not and to say that they are forced to be unlawful does not make sense. So please DO NOT allow such a desperate statement influence you to allow this inhuman so called SPORT DOG training places to exist let alone expand. No matter how they say they provide a safe place for the animals to hide, it is an enclosed area and some dogs are bred to go down holes to chase animals out accept these animals have no place to go. If one of the dogs gets hurt or killed by the animal that is trapped trying to defend itself, you can imagine that the dog owner (hunter) will likely kill the animal trapped in the so called safe hiding place. Honestly, this just doesn’t work.

Other countries use methods that keep all animals safe from this cruel way of training Sporting Dogs and still have fun.

Like trapping, which is so very cruel to animals and is no longer necessary for survival, training dogs to trap or kill animals is not necessary either. Dogs in a groups revert back to primitive instincts to kill when in groups!

I am a tax payer and I vehemently oppose any part of captive training for dogs for the purpose of finding, trapping, killing of any animal for any purpose other than for survival due to no other food source being available.

Ontario Resident