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Coyotes
and foxes used to ‘train' hunting dogs
December 2012. North Carolina, the state where 7 Critically Endangered Red wolves were ‘accidentally' shot in the last few months of 2012 (Out of a total wild population of around 110.), still allows a barbaric practice which has been banned elsewhere. Wild foxes and coyotes are trapped, captured, and then put into pens where hunting dogs are used to fight and kill them.
December 2012. North Carolina, the state where 7 Critically Endangered Red wolves were ‘accidentally' shot in the last few months of 2012 (Out of a total wild population of around 110.), still allows a barbaric practice which has been banned elsewhere. Wild foxes and coyotes are trapped, captured, and then put into pens where hunting dogs are used to fight and kill them.
This
practice, which is currently legal - but entirely inhumane - allows people to
trap wild foxes and coyotes and place them in confined pens where hunting dogs
are then "trained" to bay and kill them. Often the foxes and coyotes
are mauled to death, sometimes after enduring several rounds of
"hunts" and injuries.
Opponents
of this barbaric practice claim that competitions are run in which the hunting
dogs are scored on how quickly they can bay/kill the coyotes or foxes. It's a
cruel thing to do to any wild animal, and it is akin to dog fighting which is
illegal in the US, because all of the animals involved are canids. While foxes
have been long used for this practice, we are told that wild coyotes are also
now trapped for use in fox pens because, being more resilient, they live longer
than the foxes through the "hound training."
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