Recreational hunter shoots wolfdog
A shot shattered the romantic evening atmosphere between Remderoda and Münchenroda on June 2nd.
“Mistaken for a Red Deer”
A shot shattered the romantic evening atmosphere between Remderoda and Münchenroda on June 2nd.
Wolfdog shot while out for a walk
Recreational hunter Thomas Hornung of the Jena Hunters' Association had shot the dog Miro on that June 2nd. «We recreational hunters not only have the right to defend our game, we have a duty to do so», says Hornung, who has been killing wildlife for some 40 years.
But Thomas Hornung has already shot a dog for the second time.
Miro was a young Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. «He was well trained. My daughter wanted to have Miro trained as a therapy dog», says Doreen Jaenichen.
«Miro died in my arms. You can’t even imagine it — it was terrible.» Her daughter Leonor had only received the dog as a puppy the previous year.
Recreational hunter saw the danger of mating with a wolf
Miro 
Miro
Hornung cites as his reason for the necessary shooting the danger that Miro could have mated with a wolf that had been spotted in Jena. Furthermore, no written authorisation for the shooting had been obtained.
The correct interpretation of animal welfare, forestry and hunting law is now a matter for the courts. Doreen Jaenichen has filed a criminal complaint.
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.
