Captive deer being hunted in Northern Ireland

Is deer ‘carting' still happening in Northern Ireland

March 2013. A recent BBC report has highlighted the practice of ‘carting' deer. Carting refers to the practice of hunting deer, usually on horseback, that have been kept in captivity for that purpose. 

An undercover BBC film crew filmed a deer being kept in a trailer, and then in a shed, for several days, before being released minutes before the hunt appeared outside the shed.

Bovine TB
Ulster Society Prevention Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) have pointed out that this has happened in an area where authorities are currently testing badgers for tb in an effort to prevent tb in cows, yet this deer was kept on a farm with cows.

USPCA said "The law in Northern Ireland must change and consign ‘hunting with dogs' to the waste bin of history bringing us into line with the rest of the UK. Until that objective is achieved any evidence of ‘carted' stag hunting should be reported to PSNI as a suspected criminal offence. "

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/deer-carting.html