Vox Pop - Asks if coyote harvest is hunting or slaughter
Vox Pop
She turns quickly at the sound of howling dogs, distant but growing stronger. She’s worried about her new born pups. Knowing they are coming for her she is trying to outrun them, the hounds.
The terror stricken coyote knows that her only chance is to fight, but she knows the odds, six dogs against one is not good. She’s already very tired, she’s been trying to outrun them for awhile.
But the hounds draw closer their fleeing prey now close at hand. If this was a fair fight, perhaps the outcome would be different. But “fair” isn’t a word that means much to the high-tech hunter who has fitted the trailing hounds with radio collars.
The weary coyote turns its neck in submission while the hounds do what they are trained to do. Surrounding and tearing at the coyote until it is gravely injured or near death.
The hunter has been tracking the radio signal with his handheld tracking antenna.
He steps out of his truck with his rifle, and walks to where the coyote is bleeding out from his injuries. He takes aim and shoots her point blank.
The hunt has ended. This is going on every day here in Wisconsin that the DNR not only endorses this brutality, but builds up hype full of over-blown information. They have full access to the media and spew tidbits of information that put the fear into people. It is totally one-sided and opposite views don’t get the same access for rebuttal.
We non-hunters have no say-so to what happens to our resources. They cater to a small percent of the population and leave the rest of us out of the decision making.
To add to the unethical lies, when people buy DNR’s special “conservation license plates” people are lead to believe they are supporting a good cause. What they don’t know is part of the “special license plate” money is used to reimburse hunters for their injured hunting dogs. What a racket! Their dogs get injured or die while hunting, and through the “special license” money, the hunter gets reimbursed. One hunter has been reimbursed $10,000, for his dog’s injured on a hunt.
The tide is turning, no matter how they try, hunter numbers are dwindling.
At the last meeting in Jim Falls, the DNR were all ringing their hands hoping for a miracle.
Their latest push is to energize parents to put guns in little girls hands.
For those who are interested in doing more research on coyote hunting go to first hand account article (pictures included) by Micheal McFadzen, State Sanctioned Disposable Dog and Channel 27/Hunting or Slaughter?
Humanely yours. — Kathalin Tuisl, Sheldon
