This practice is grossly…

This practice is grossly barbaric and unnecessary. A bit like blood sport at the Roman Colosseum, re-branded as a training exercise.
What challenge can there be to kill prey that cannot escape? This is on a par with dog fighting in terms of its cruelty. What’s that old saw? Like shooting fish in a barrel? Except it would be far more compassionate to shoot the prey than to be ripped limb from limb by a pack of bloodthirsty dogs.
There is little doubt that this is a form of entertainment, a blood sport rather than training. I’m quite sure that bets will be placed upon various aspects, including time of death and length of the hunt. Remember that there are lots of hunters willing to leave behind their “beloved best friends” at the end of hunting season every year if the dog isn’t there to leave when they are.
They’re disposable.
Who will police these hunters in terms of regulations? Safety pods? 90 days to apply is much too long, how many new facilities do you think will spring up?
This is a regressive plan, out of step with civilized society. We do not allow any kind of training or experimentation on humans if it poses a serious risk to a person. How can we, as humans, be so entitled, arrogant and convinced of our superiority over other species that we allow people to engage in this slaughter?
Remember when science admonished us all not to ascribe human emotions to animals? Not to anthropomorphize them? Its clear to us now that they do experience emotion. We are only now beginning to understand the depth of intellect of other species. That’s our lack, not theirs. So its ok to watch as they are ripped apart with no chance of escape? My god, the terror they must feel when they realize there is no way out, and what a painful death. To what end? It certainly cannot be hunting for food. It’s trophy hunting with the mangled, bloody corpse of a wild animal as the prize. Now THATS entertainment!
I read one official stating that “there is a growing demand” and without allowing it, then it will move underground and cause harm. I’d like you to openly publish your data on this eventuality from other places that have banned it completely already. I bet it doesn’t exist, I call horse crap.
A civilized society would not allow the proliferation of such barbarism, would it? Is Ontario a civil society?
I sure hope we can be.