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Old February 19, 2007, 11:39 AM   #16
Art Eatman
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dustoff, there have been two "canned hunt" styles of which I know.

One involved old-age zoo animals. African lions, e.g. In one videotaped incident, the "hunter" stood by as the lion was released from a cage. The lion was not really able to do much more than stagger around. The hunter shot the lion from a distance of maybe ten or fifteen feet.

This happened in Texas. The uproar from the hunting community and (naturally) the animal lovers led the legislature to outlaw such travesties.

In Arkansas some years back, hunts were advertised where deer were held in fenced areas of as small as three acres, with little cover. "Guaranteed kill" and all that.

More recently, Jimmy Houston was videotaped as being involved with a deal where deer were released into a small pen. The deer had been drugged to the point of near-stagger. The photography angles of the regular photographers were set up to make it look like a fair-chase hunt. We've had threads on this, last year. Use the Search feature. If not here, then at TheHighRoad.org. Anyway, it's all part of court testimony in--IIRC--Wisconsin.

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