Brutal, dangerous recreational hunter tortures horses
A recreational hunter beats a horse brutally with a metal shovel and a pitchfork. The footage shows systematic animal cruelty.
A brown horse stands tightly tethered in a stable; a recreational hunter picks up a metal shovel and strikes brutally: on the back, on the belly, on the head of the animal. Then he picks up a pitchfork and stabs.
These brutal scenes were captured by a camera that had been secretly installed in the stable. In recent weeks, the camera has recorded drastic acts of animal cruelty.
Abuse brought to an end
A riding instructor used the secretly recorded video footage to approach the Warendorf District Veterinary Office and submitted it as evidence. The authority responded immediately and filed a criminal complaint for animal cruelty.
Together with the police, district staff removed 15 horses from the equestrian yard. The police also seized the stable operator's hunting rifles. The whistleblower recounts: «I was told: Don't go there. It's dangerous.» For more on this topic, see Crime and Hunting.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
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.
