Recreational hunter shoots horse — again
In Thuringia, a 39-year-old recreational hunter shot a horse. He admitted to having mistaken the animal for wildlife. Police are investigating.
Horse mistaken for wildlife
In Thuringia, Germany, another tragic incident occurred in which a recreational hunter accidentally shot a horse while out on a hunting trip.
The 39-year-old recreational hunter admitted to having mistaken the horse for wildlife when he fired the shot. The incident was reported to the police in Thuringia, who have launched an investigation, reports thüringen24.de.
Calls for stricter regulations
Once the incident became known, it triggered a wide public debate. Many people expressed their dismay at the tragic mix-up and called for stricter regulations governing recreational hunting, in order to prevent such incidents in the future.
Investigation into negligence
The owner of the shot horse mourned his beloved animal and stated that he was shocked and speechless about the incident. The police investigation continued in order to clarify the exact sequence of events and determine whether negligence or a regrettable mistake was involved. IG Wild beim Wild systematically documents hunting accidents and criminal offences.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
