Oppose extremely savage penning/baiting
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Please send Sample Letter protesting penning; this action targets multiple state departments, some via email, others via webform, whichever was available and valid at the time of publishing alert.
BACKGROUND | FROM ANIMAL RESCUE UNIT
Fox penning is a blood sport in which dozens of dogs compete in a fenced-in area to chase—and sometimes rip apart—foxes and coyotes. Trapped in the wild and sold to fox pens, often in other states, the fox or coyote must run for his life inside fences where there is no hope of getting away.
Grisly from start to finish, fox penning begins when the steel jaws of a leg hold trap snap shut on a coyote or fox, inflicting terrible pain. A trapper removes the animal from the trap and packs her into a cage with other injured animals.
The caged animals may be hauled hundreds of miles. With no food or water, some animals die on the trip. Once bought by pen operators, the foxes and coyotes provide amusement for participants who travel from state to state to wager on their dogs.
With dogs tearing apart the captive animals, there is a constant demand for fresh wildlife for the fox pens.
Florida just banned this sport on Sept 1st, 2010, but it is legal in most other southern states!
Americans recognize that dog fighting and cockfighting are unacceptably cruel and that such spectator events don’t have a place in civilized society. How different is penning?
It’s time again for society to stand up, and shout a collective NO to another cruel, unethical and dangerous blood sport -and make penning illegal in all 50 states. Our shock and outrage can help relegate coyote and fox pens to their rightful place in America’s dark past.
FOOTAGE
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WHOM TO CONTACT
Emails:
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Kentucky Department of Game & Wildlife Resources
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Email block
dcnr.commissioner@dcnr.alabama.gov,
dfw@dnr.in.gov,
info.center@ky.gov,
gordon.myers@ncwildlife.org,
info@odwc.state.ok.us,
dgifweb@dgif.virginia.gov
Webforms:
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Telephone numbers
Alabama Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources: (334) 242-3486
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission: (501) 223-6300
Georgia DNR: (404) 656-3500
Indiana DNR: (317) 232-4080 (division of fish and wildlife)
Iowa DNR: (515) 281-5918
Kentucky Dept. of Game & Wildlife Resources: (800) 858-1549
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission: (919) 707-0010
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation: (405) 521 3851
South Carolina DNR: (803) 734-3886 (wildlife)
Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries: (804) 367-1000
Wisconsin DNR: 608-266-2621
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
A brutal blood sport in which trapped coyotes and foxes are hunted and ripped apart by medicated hounds, coyote and fox penning are horrific reminders of sanctioned barbarism. Non-human animals, including many obtained through illegal animal trafficking and acquisition across state lines, are brutally trapped in painful manners and used as bait in vicious competitive hunting games. These games, pitting trapped fox and coyotes against hunting dogs, typically end in bloody brutality, the animals prohibited from escape and ripped apart by doped hounds.
There is no place in civilized society for such depraved hunting games. Hunting is inherently cruel, yet these types of hunts are particularly savage, fundamentally cruel, and based on inequity and accommodating promoters, employing vulgar tactics to trap coyotes and foxes and then denying them any defense against antagonized dogs, a decidedly unmerited and cruel strategy to kill animals for cheap human entertainment.
Therefore, I respectfully request that, based on the established brutality involved as well as the potentiality for facilitation of illegal animal commerce and trade, you please use your position to begin the process illegalizing statewide penning/baiting practices. Please leave your state reputation free of such brutal, inequitable hunting enterprises, and do not allow economical benefits, hunting sympathizers, and distorted business trappers to dominate over ethics and judicious resolutions.
Thank you for taking the time to read this important message.
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where in this abomination
could one find sport
animals tearing each other
apart,
as man cavorts
this is torture, period
this is not entertain
this is bloodlust
delirious
and morally, insane
it is hard to find the words
i sit here appalled
at homo crapiens
and wonder
from out under
what rock
our species crawled
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
where in this abomination
could one find sport
animals tearing each other
apart,
as man cavorts
this is torture, period
this is not entertain
this is bloodlust
delirious
and morally, insane
it is hard to find the words
i sit here appalled
at homo crapiens
and wonder
from out under
what rock
our species crawled
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Man’s cruelty knows no bounds. Having foxes and coyotes being penned and then ripped to shreds by hounds. It’s not the hounds fault……..it’s the bastards who enjoy this spectacle of cruelty. Pls. put and end to this horror.
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I had absolutely no idea at all that this kind of thing happens still happens!
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PERO , DIOS MIO , ¿COMO PUEDE HABER PERSONAS QUE DISFRUTEN CON ESTE CRUEL ESPECTACULO ? ES TAN SALVAJE Y CRUEL Y SANGRIENTO , QUE PARECE QUE ESTUVIERAMOS EN EL SIGLO XVI . QUE ALGUIEN PARE ESTE HORROR , POR FAVOR .
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