I am strongly opposed to opening up, extending or renewing these wild animal kill pens, used for the training of hunting dogs. It causes unnecessary suffering to wild animals that are captured from their natural habitats and cruelly slaughtered.
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Doug Ford you are an embarrassment to our Province and our Country.
You have shown time and again you have no concern for our wildlife or our wetlands and only care about building building building!
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I vehemently oppose the proposed changes to allow this barbaric trapping and trialing practice.
Ontario needs to update its animal welfare laws, and to allow wild animals to be tortured is inhumane, unacceptable, and makes me ashamed to live in Ontario under these rules.
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It is inhumane to trap and torture any animal. Capturing an animal to play victim for training purposes is just that. It is not necessary to have an animal to train a dog to search or track. It may make it easier but, not at the expense of another living being.
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As an Ontario resident I strongly object to the Ministry’s proposal to amend the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997 to permit the expansion of licences for new dog train and trial areas and the transfer of licences.
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How is the cruelty of this type of business allowed and sanctioned by our government. Let's step back in time like we do with many other things. This must not be allowed. The captivity of small animals to use as bait for hunting dogs is ridiculous in this age of technology.
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I have never heard of such a facility. We don't call animal control to pick up a lingering wild animal or one in distress to have them kept in such a place only to be used to train a hunting dog. Can you even imagine the terror of being chased by a dog in an area you cannot escape from?
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It is disturbing to learn about revoking the ban on cruel penned dog hunting in Ontario and I would like to present some arguments on why most Canadians and Ontarians are against this horrible practice:
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No new areas or licences should be considered to support this barbaric and cruel practice which inhumanely terrorizes and kills wildlife in the name of sport. This is not a sport! It is sadistically brutal and inflicts completely unnecessary pain and suffering on many different types of wildlife.
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A ban on the cruel practice of having foxes, coyotes and rabbits used as live bait was implemented in 1997 and should not be reverse on ethical reasons.
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This act is barbaric and awful. This day in age there are many viable ways to train animals without the killing if our wildlife. Its unacceptable to allow these companies to trap and relocate our wild animals for the mere pirpose of training dogs.
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Trapping and penning wild animals to later be hunted is inhumane and disgusting.
It is hard for me to be more disappointed in the current provincial government and yet they have succeeded.
There is no need for these facilities.
Please do not allow any growth in this sector.
No. Everything about this is disgusting and wrong. It's inhumane. There's nothing sportsman like allowing your dog to violently rip apart an alive, captive wild animal. It's cruel. We live in a time where this should be considered a criminal offense to let your dog attack wild animal.
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Why I Oppose at least Part of Bill 91: I just oppose cruelty.
Schedule 14 of Bill 91, Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 defines train and trial areas as:
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What ?? Respectfully, no !! Cruel, insensitive and barbaric. Please stop this, these practices are from another age, and essentially for priviledged persons. Please no, stop this.
How can this ever be allowed....condoned? This is nothing more than a government sanctioned canned hunting operation. What new low have we now gone to with animal welfare ( & the lack there of) ? Please stop this from happening. Lets do better.
I truly can't believe this is going on in the first place, let alone an expansion of these places! It’s absolutely disgusting and barbaric that hunters are allowed to kill innocent WILD animals in this manner.
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Hunting animals for sport is absolutely wrong. Hunting animals for meat is acceptable if that is ones' only source of protein. Training dogs to hunt and tear apart other animals is absolutely wrong. Dogs should simply be used to track not attack.
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