Friends of Animals Tells Indiana to Stop Live Bait Dog Training
Darien CT - Due to loopholes in Indiana’s wildlife regulations, countless numbers of coyotes and foxes are being trapped and killed for recreational pursuits. To make matters worse, the state currently has no laws identifying cruelty to wild animals, such as coyotes and red foxes.
Hunting enthusiasts are paying a fee to running pen operators to train their hunting dogs. The red foxes and coyotes are lured into traps to only be released to face a pack of hunting dogs.
“The aim of this violent training is to prompt domesticated dogs forced to hunt to seek out and rip apart animals whose place in nature should be secured,” Priscilla Feral says, president of Friends of Animals.
Out of nearly seven million residents, only 4.1 percent (254,000) of the population is composed of licensed hunters. These hunters are essentially manipulating the law — and the state is turning a blind eye.
What the state fails to recognize is that out of its nearly seven million residents, there are an estimated two million who are wild-life watchers. Many residents are not even aware that these running pen operations, which are solely used to entice a battle between wildlife and domesticated animals, are a result of a minority of voters.
While other states have rejected this vicious training or “sport,” Indiana has allowed this to continue, catering to the interests of a small minority of licensed, resident hunters, whose license fees are channeled to the state’s wildlife agency.
On 16 March, a meeting is scheduled to take place by the Indiana Natural Resource Commission. We at Friends of Animals urge you to contact NRC officials and Indiana’s governor right away and persuade these officials to prohibit the capture of foxes and coyotes for the purpose of training hunting dogs.
NRC Officials:
Jennifer Kane
jkane@nrc.in.gov
(317) 232-4699
Sandra Jensen
sjensen@nrc.in.gov
(317) 232-4229
Office of Governor Mitch Daniels
200 W. Washington St #206
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2731
(317) 232-4567
mdaniels@gov.in.gov
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On December 31, 2009, Chris Gale wrote:
Thanks for this post. Be so grateful for as many people as possible to contact these officials and the Governor to stop this barbarism.
On January 1, 2010, CeAnn Lambert wrote:
Please help us to stop this appalling practice in IN. Please comment to the NRC before March 16, 2010. You don’t have to be from Indiana for your comment to have impact. If you make it in a foreign language, it will be translated. If you are tired of feeling as if you can’t help to make changes, this is something that you can help to change. We need your comments!
On January 3, 2010, Cassandra Yetman wrote:
This is horrible, why would people do this to any animals, this needs to be stopped
On January 6, 2010, Nichole Geisseer wrote:
It’s gross. It’s cruel and very unnecessary.
On March 2, 2010, Stacey Cabral wrote:
I cannot believe this goes on and someone actually makes a profit! It should not matter if the animal is wild or domesticated. No one has a right to torture animals. People go to jail for dog fighting! Why would anyone of sound mind want to do something like this. Animals are not objects for us to do as we please. With all our technology and advances it is sad that humans have not evolved to a higher level. It’s frightening to think that there are people that take pleasure in seeing another being suffer and not have the good sense to feel bad about it.
People go out and do these awful things and then claim to be civilized human beings. These people are base, devoid of compassion for other living things. I think if a person can do these things to animals they could just as easly do them to people.
On March 2, 2010, Songbird wrote:
People who does this to animals can do it to people. I have less feelings more and more every day for humans for the way they treat animals. God created them for us to love did he not? Do you think he will like what all is be happening with them? Do you think he’s not seeing all that goes on in the world? You best get the Bible and read the last few chapters of Revelations for we are there people wake up!!!!
On March 3, 2010, Ivana Zodkova wrote:
Barbarism on living animals does not belong to west culture.
It is a discredit to practicizing country.
On March 3, 2010, Cherie Johnson wrote:
I didn’t even know something this horrible existed in America.
It made me sick at my stomach to see those pictures of nice domesticated dogs being taught by stupid, ignorant men to tear
up and kill a lovely wild thing like a fox or coyoye. These men should be ashamed of themselves to continue doing this thing in the name of sport. I can’t believe that the State of Indiana would still allow this form of torture to an animal of any kind. We no longer live in the dark ages where this sort of thing should be allowed anywhere in America.
On March 3, 2010, Shannon Martel wrote:
America is going to hell in a handbasket. As long as these things are allowed to happen animals will always be tortured and killed just for being an animal. How sad that the human race has evolved into killers of innocent animals.All animal lovers need to get together and protest these things instead of only complaining about it. unless we step up and help these poor animals it will continue to happen again and again to all animals not just the wild ones.What are we teaching our children? Write to your congressmen, get in touch with your newspapers and tv stations and make them aware that this is going on, make sure it gets out in the open so it can be stopped.That’s the only way we can change these horrible things from happening and save those poor animals.
On March 4, 2010, Lucy Peixoto wrote:
This is one of the most disgusting and reprehensible things that “Human” beings can do to animals. this obviously has to be stopped, not just for the fact that the barbaric practice of attacking coyotes for training is cowardly, but it is truly a reflection of the diseased men and women who participate in this killing. for the sake of humanity and for the future of Mankind, this has to be stopped.