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Yes, truly appalling - and the worst of it is that this is all legal (provided the birds are killed within 24 hours). Whilst the royal family and other "big" people support this so-called sport, the chances of getting it banned are, sadly, remote.
Articles like the one you cited, Catherine, are good at raising public awareness of the issue. The "Independent" has some good articles.
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I deliberately go out hunting them down and squashing them. After of course letting any trapped bird I find go free.
My territory -for quite a sizeable distance -appears free of them now (for the moment) I do not actually care what "laws" I break in the process. I am sneaky and very fast on my feet and there hasn't been one "gamekeeper" yet who could keep up with me. (and Misty in the old days.) I am also liable to go out at ungodly hours.
I won't tolerate those traps. They are heartbreakingly cruel.
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LPC, you are right. As long as big name people support the hunts they will not be banned.
If Larsen traps are considered part of the hunt they will not be banned.
I thought about you out there breaking the traps while I watched the video. I am glad you have been doing that. The traps shouldn't be legal so who cares if you break laws to free the birds. I hope you break the traps so they can't be repaired
I wonder who actually manufactures the traps. Surely we could target them with complaints.
Maybe there are none in your area because they are hard to replace and you have broken every one. We can hope.
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09-27-2018, 02:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2018, 02:34 AM by Tobi.)
I don't know if it's "compassion" that I feel for them. I don't know. I just feel so horribly sorry because they don't know what love feels like. I would honestly like them to know what love feels like because they would not turn back from it when they had known it.
You are right. A shock of some kind has potential to change peoples' ways. But love, to a Heart that has even a small opening in it, can often change a life profoundly.
Sometimes when people suffer, they don't link it to what they have done. They just feel sorry for themselves that they are suffering, and that gets them nowhere. It doesn't always change their Hearts.
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Totally against type of trapping,hunting and shooting I can't honestly see what people get out of any of it.