After animal cruelty during hunts in Burgenland and Lower Austria: VGT files a complaint and calls for support of the referendum for a federal hunting law
Vienna (OTS) – The VGT has been documenting for many years Cruelty to animals during hunts including in Burgenland. The hunters carry out a real massacre here year after year: brown hares, pheasants and partridges are first fed all year round, only to be shot by the hundreds in the autumn. Activists from the VGT, who documented a hunt in Gattendorf from the public paths, had to repeatedly observe how various drivers beat the dogs that were used to retrieve the animals that had been shot. Scenes that the VGT also presented in one Video held on, shocking: One of the drivers takes a thin whip and hits a frightened dog several times in the face, another time he hits the animal with his bare hand. Two dogs fight over a dead hare until a driver kicks the dogs. The VGT is reporting this unnecessary animal cruelty today. The clear cases of animal cruelty are tolerated by the other hunt participants and apparently not punished.
About the video: Hunter hits defenseless dog
Georg Prinz from the ASSOCIATION AGAINST ANIMAL FACTORIES is horrified: “It’s bad enough that hundreds of animals are shot during this hunt, but obviously the animal suffering isn’t enough for the local hunters. Beating defenseless dogs for no apparent reason shows how brutally these self-proclaimed “guardians” treat the animal world. The fact that in such a big hunt a beater can hit a dog while the rest of the hunting party just watches him does nothing speaks volumes. This arbitrary and senseless animal suffering during driven hunts must have consequences!
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During another hunt in the Horn district (Lower Austria) for deer and wild boars, completely disoriented and frightened small dogs were sent alone into the forest to flush out the animals. However, as a video documentary shows, the dogs run completely distraught across a busy street where cars are allowed to drive through the hunt area at 50km/h despite the hunt! Life-threatening situations arise for the dogs there several times. In desperation, one of the dogs even sought refuge in the activists’ car and jumped into the interior of the vehicle.
“Here too, I can only shake my head at so much unnecessary animal suffering,” said Georg Prinz. “So much danger is taken into account for the pure pleasure of shooting – be it for the dogs, the drivers and of course the deer and wild boars that are set up and shot in their homes. Please support this Referendum for a federal hunting lawso that this animal suffering finally ends!
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