There is no mistaking the video you saw. You are correct there were a boat load of hounds on the one coyote. What we don’t know is if the video is from a fox pen, staged or taken from a trial outside the pen. We assume that it is from a competition from inside a pen and we assume it is from the pen in GA. But we don’t actually know. I recall seeing a PETA video of animals being skinned – ALVIE. Horrible video. I also recall seeing a video of a person standing on the head of an animal killing it while blood came out if it’s nose presumably from the skull in the process of being crushed. I was outraged. And then it hit me. Wait, if this is an undercover video why did the videographer zoom in on the bloody nose and how did they know it was going to happen? Maybe the video was from China where that stuff routinely happens. The video while horrible, was either purposely taken or was manufactured by some animal rights organization to produce the shock factor. I do not put it past the ALF, PETA, HSUS or any other of the wing nuts out there to make a video like that for the benefit of their own cause at the expense of the animal.
As to the video of the hounds all pulling on the coyote. Yes, bad to see. It also happens just like that in the wild too. That is how a pack of coyotes take down a deer or other game. When is the last time you screamed at National Geographic for airing a tiger killing an Antelope? What that video did show was that no hound in that entire bunch was worth a damm because no hound actually took hold of it by the neck and dispatched it. That may sound cruel of me to say, but a good hound does its job professionally and swiftly. What is on that video will get the public in an outcry and that is what it did. Should the hounds have been called of sooner, I cannot debate that issue I was not there. Perhaps.
The video also shows that this pen was under attack from a divorce and I don’t doubt that had something to do with the bad press. Bolt holes being stopped up and too many hounds in a pen. Yea, not a good thing.
I think what we are seeing here is the worst of two worlds being combined together by the media looking to sensationalize the situation. We have the reports from the Dept of Wildlife in several states doing stings on pens and live animal sales. Then you add a divorce, then you add a video from wherever and however old, then you add a reporter who has his own agenda, stir well to a boil and you get a sensationalized report that has the wow factor and gets Mr. Travis on the map.
We all do horrible things everyday and if a microscope was turned towards any of us, oh the reports of horse abuse. Your filthy stall, I cannot believe how little turnout you have, wait only one horse, but they are sociable animals. How can you be so cruel? Next the camera pans from your horse standing outside on a cold wintery day in its heavyweight blanket and the wind is howling, The camera follows the tree tops bending in the arctic air through the window of your home to find you curled up in a lazy boy with a cup of coco in front of a roaring fireplace. Now who is the cruel one?
So we need to question the fox pen video. There is always two sides to a story and everyone has an opinion.
The mounted foxhunting word does not use pens very much. – rarely in fact. The foot foxhunting world is much larger than us and has much more legislative power. It is in our best interest to stand shoulder to shoulder and weather this storm together.
I’ll add the same disclaimer as you, I am not knocking anyone, just making a statement.
Greg
I don’t understand that. If you want to shoot it then do so but don’t let it be torn apart by a pack of dogs esp. when it has no where to go. Thats just MO though.