I firmly reject the concept of train and trial areas in Ontario. This is seriously inhumane and horrific. The government should be ashamed of themselves to even consider offering new licenses or even allowing any of these facilities to exist in Ontario in this day and time.
Wildlife should never be taken from their natural environments and held captive by hunters. It’s especially cruel to use rabbits, coyotes, and foxes as pawns for hunters to train dogs and hold competitions.
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Who in Canada comes up with this? You should be ashamed of yourselves for even contemplating any type of wild animal confinement and inevitably torture, then you think this is ok to allow people to let loose their dogs on these animals to shred them apart.
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Hello,
I firmly oppose the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s recent proposal to give new licenses and the transfer of licenses for train and trail areas in Ontario.
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Although the proposals appear to be subject to strict regulation, practice is much different than what is seen in these reassurances. We are still putting wildlife at severe threat through these amendments.
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I am a farmer in Ontario. I also have been breeding, showing and training dogs professionally for over 40 years.
I consider the proposal to allow dog training pens to be unnecessary and and unspeakably cruel to the hunted animals. I am totally against the proposed legislation.
This is a huge step backwards for animal welfare and safety. Letting dogs loose to chase after helpless, trapped animals is appalling. 81% of Canadians oppose trophy hunting (source: Research Co. Poll September 2020).
Please do not condone this cruelty!
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I absolutely 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.
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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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I am deeply disturbed to hear of this proposal, not only is it is incredibly cruel to both wildlife and dogs, but it benefits only people who engage in blood sports, and poses a health and safety risk regarding the containment of wildlife.
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Hunting pens are inhumane and unethical. Wild animals such as foxes, coyotes, and rabbits are captured and held in captivity only to be subjected to cruelty, abuse, and suffering through the training and trialing of hunting dogs. These archaic facilities have no place in today’s society.
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Wildlife should never be taken from their natural environments and held captive by hunters. It’s especially cruel to use rabbits, coyotes, and foxes as pawns for hunters to train dogs and hold competitions. This is absolutely disgusting. The government should be ashamed of themselves!!!!
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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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. This is a disgusting idea. Any existing facilities should have been shut down by now.
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I believe the train and trial pens are archaic and have no place in the future of Ontario. We have strong animal welfare standards that prohibit animal fighting and I believe that this hunting training practice is no different than what we actively prohibit.
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I’m from Australia. I can’t believe you could allow such a barbaric hunting practice! We have our fair share of abhorrent hunting issues here but nothing on the scale of what Ontario is proposing.
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I strongly oppose the amendment.
The existence of these dog train and trial areas is appalling in this day and age. It is an act of cruelty to allow a wild animal to be hunted with no hope of escape only for the purpose of training a dog.
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Hunting with hounds has always been an effective tool to keep predator numbers stable. It is becoming far more important than ever with increased predator populations in city centres.
The proposal, in my opinion should be allowed.
I can't imagine a more trivial reason for penning and causing distress to wildlife. It shouldn't take a university course in ethics to see the moral incoherence of protecting some canids (see your provincial legislation protecting domestic dogs) and using others as objects to train canids.
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