Two former Ontario conservation officers are imploring the province to reverse plans to expand a sport that allows dogs to track down captive coyotes, foxes and rabbits in massive fenced-in pens.
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.
But the retired Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers who tried to enforce dog train-and-trial regulations say the enclosures should be banned outright.Former premier Mike Harris's Progressive Conservative government wanted to regulate captive wildlife in the province in the 1990s. As part of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act created in 1997, the province launched a licensing regime for dog train-and-trial areas.
The changes are included in Bill 91 – the Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act – that will soon become law.Maw is a former enforcement supervisor with the ministry and, before that, an intelligence officer who ran special investigations. He and his colleagues uncovered an underground coyote trade ring where animals caught illegally were put in a small room in a barn and sold off.
The big problem for Maw and Lintack, both longtime hunters, is that the legislation was largely unenforceable. Failing to comply with the law could result in fines of either $25,000 or $100,000, up to two years in jail and licence revocation, she said.
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