Been around for a long time, and have never heard of this repugnant and barbaric treatment of both domestic and wild animals.
I am shocked, and in this day and age, this does not happen very often anymore...
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Using live wildlife in an enclosure with no possible escape to train dogs is barbaric and anyone in support of such a law needs to spend a day in such an inescapable enclosure being chased fir their lives.
Please do not bring back this barbaric penned hunting, cruelty. This is horrific, we are better than this, do not allow this to go forward. Canada needs to do better for all its animals, allowing penned hunting with dogs is beyond cruel and shows a total lack of empathy. Do not allow this.
I am horrified that this policy is even allowed in Ontario and it should not be changed to allow more torture and suffering of wild animals. All animals have the ability to feel stress and pain. Also, what is sporting about this?
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I firmly reject the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s proposal to allow new licenses and the transfer of licenses for train and trial areas in Ontario.
Penned dog hunting facilities are cruel to the wild animals that are subjected to various methods used to train dogs to hunt.
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We urge you to reject this proposal and not to licence any new operations. Also, please consider closing all of the existing 24 left in Ontario since the ban of most of the operations in 1997.
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The proposal in ERO 019-3685 is a terrible idea. I agree with the comments of Animal Alliance of Canada about the proposal, in its letter dated April 14, 2023 to Premier Ford and Minister Graydon Smith.
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If this type of training really is something that is needed, which I doubt, surely dogs can be trained to track different animal species using their scents instead of actual wildlife being captured and kept in cages.
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I am strongly opposed to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry proposal to allow new licences and the transfer of existing licences for dog training and trial areas (ERO 019-3685).
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I am writing to ask you to please reconsider the inhumane proposal to allow captive wildlife to be used as bait to train hunting dogs. It saddens me to think that unnecessary trauma and harm will be inflicted on wild animals just to train dogs to be more efficient at hunting them down.
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I am a wildlife artist and deeply love and respect our Ontario wildlife. I strongly oppose the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s proposal to allow new licenses, and the transfer of existing licenses, for dog train and trial areas in Ontario.
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I am so against the proposal (ERO 019-3685) to permit the transfer of licences and the issuance of new licences for start ups to allow wildlife in captivity to be used as bait for training dogs for hunting. This is wrong on so many levels.
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Why would anyone think it right to use captive wildlife for bait to train dogs. God created every animal. When you hurt, torture, or kill any animal you are doing that action to God himself. He is every creature.
Stop using captive wildlife for bait to train dogs.
I do hope you will ban this cruel activity of penning animals for sport training. But if that fails l'm against increasing licenses to allow more cruelty to happen.
This is disgusting that any govt would sanction this. It is beyond the pale. The fact that there are ‘grandfathered pens’ that have been allowed to do this at all is a black mark against every person in the province.
How low can this Ford government sink?
It makes me hurl.
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