'This is a sport of cruelty.'
Rick Maw and Wayne Lintack say the dog sport, often referred to as training and trialing, is cruel to the captive prey and well-meaning regulations are impossible to enforce.
The trialing portion involves competitions with judges who score the dogs on their hunting skills. Points are awarded and champions crowned. Now, there are 24 such places left in the province. Six are licensed to hold coyotes, the province said.The province has proposed to grant new licences through a one-time 90-day application period and allow licences to be transferred to new owners, a summary of proposed changes on the Environmental Registry of Ontario shows.
"There was nothing we could do," Maw said, so they had to let the hunter go with the animals. But he soon began talking to other conservation officers who reported seeing other coyotes stuffed into dog crates.They had an officer go undercover with a group of train-and-trial hunters. The hunters would unleash their dogs in winter to track down coyotes. They'd swap out the dogs after an hour for fresh dogs. Some coyotes gave up due to exhaustion after being cornered by dogs.
Melissa Candelaria, a spokeswoman for the natural resources minister, said conservation officers will inspect the train-and-trial areas and "will not hesitate to issue fines to facilities that do not meet the standard of care for wildlife, as they have in the past, and they will continue in the future."
The province called the situation in 2006 "illegal dogfighting rings posing as train and trial facilities."John Fraser, the interim Liberal leader, said his party cannot support the expansion of the sport."People hunt with dogs, we know that, but to actually have a pen in which you have dogs attacking other wildlife and no way to ensure that the cruelty doesn't happen, it's not right.""No other Canadian province permits penned dog hunting," he said.
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