Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone shot down while videotaping the killing HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania––Live pigeon shoots held at The Berm, near Dalmatia, Pennsylvania, on June 3, 2018, and on June 4, 2018, at the nearby Erdman Sportsmen’s Club, appear to have been the biggest since Libre’s Law, pushed by the Humane Society of the U.S. […]
Ducks Unlimited pledge to end pigeon shoot is again a cruel hoax in Minnesota
But Alabama Forestry Association pigeon shoot is ended, says Georgia-Pacific MONTGOMERY, Alabama; PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota––Having had four years of April Fools from Ducks Unlimited, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) hopes the Alabama Forestry Association was not just pranking when it announced on March 30, 2018––via Georgia-Pacific vice president for sustainability Deborah Baker––that it […]
Killing contest cancelled: hunters won’t eat crow
Crow hunts “unwise, unwarranted, and cruel,” causing “harm to the morals,” said critics––and that was in 1922! WILLIAMSTOWN, Vermont––Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel co-owner Mark McCarthy, 52, has reportedly called off the crow-killing contest he had announced would be held on April 7, 2018, with a $40-per-team entry fee, under the auspices of the 100-member […]
SHARK fights pigeon shooters where black man was hunted for sport
Three drones shot down; pigeon shooters quit early EHRHARDT, S.C. ––Losing three video drones to gunfire, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) nonetheless believes it won what might be termed the Third Battle of Broxton’s Bridge, South Carolina. SHARK had apparently already delayed the start of a scheduled four-day, six-station pigeon shoot by two days […]
HSUS president Wayne Pacelle responds to Maryland pigeon shoot
Replies to “Pigeon shoots ––that HSUS said it stopped––continue in Maryland,” by Steve Hindi, president, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness From Wayne Pacelle, president & CEO, The Humane Society of the United States: Last year, we were informed for the first time in my memory that there was a planned live pigeon shoot scheduled in Maryland. We have […]
Pigeon shoots––that HSUS said it stopped––continue in Maryland
Why did HSUS misinform us––and you? by Steve Hindi, president, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (See also http://www.animals24-7.org/2018/01/24/hsus-president-wayne-pacelle-responds-to-maryland-pigeon-shoot/.) On Monday, January 15, 2018, I sent an email to Humane Society of the United States president Wayne Pacelle demanding a copy of all HSUS documentation regarding live pigeon shoots around the country. I copied Anna West and […]
Hurricane Harvey hits hunters & fishers harder than wildlife
Shrimp, sea turtles, “sport fish,” teal & doves all get a break HOUSTON, Texas––As hard as Hurricane Harvey hit humans, pets, livestock, and some of the most vulnerable wildlife along the Gulf Coast of Texas and adjacent part of Louisiana, especially big birds who could not escape from the wind, early damage assessments indicate that […]
Did HSUS & Humane Pennsylvania sacrifice pigeons to NRA demand?
“Libre’s Law,” without prohibiting pigeon shoots, exempts “Shooting activities not otherwise prohibited” from criminal prosecution HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania––Why did the Humane Society of the U.S. and Humane Pennsylvania not tell the world that they won passage of a much touted new Pennsylvania state humane law at the cost of accepting language, reportedly dictated by the […]
Trump booster Senator James Inhofe halts pigeon shoot fundraisers
Three-year SHARK campaign succeeds GENEVA, Illinois––Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) on August 22, 2017 released documents obtained from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation through a Freedom of Information Act request indicating that U.S. Senator James Inhofe (Republican, Oklahoma) will no longer hold live pigeon shoots as part of his annual summer fundraising […]
Did the bastards kill any bustards? Oil sheik hunters evicted from Pakistan
Officially, the oil sheiks didn’t use their falcons THARPARKAR, Pakistan––Birding enthusiasts, conservationists, and inquiring minds throughout Pakistan are wondering how endangered houbara bustards really fared this past winter, after––according to the Urdu newspaper Daily Dunya––an alleged falconing camp set up in Tharparkar, Sindh district, by Qatari prince Fahad Abdul Rahman Al Thani was removed […]