(10-18-2015, 09:15 PM)LPC Wrote: The only reason the dentist wasn't charged was because he came from America and Zimbabwe makes a lot of money from hunting permits given to Americans and doesn't want to lose this money by "upsetting the apple cart". The guide, of course, knew what he was doing - but he is a dispensable pawn.
Even if the dentist thought the papers were in order, that doesn't excuse the fact that the poor lion was shot and then left for many hours in severe pain, only being killed much later. At the very least, animal cruelty charges would seem appropriate.
I know. Morally, the man who shot the gun is the man who is responsible, no matter who did what. Unless there had been a dire emergency which called the man immediately from the scene, he is responsible for what happened to that lion. And in my view, he treated its fate with disregard.
