How recreational hunters torment their hunting dogs
Keeping hunting dogs on a chain or in a kennel year-round does not meet the needs of hunting dogs and must be rejected.
A bleak life in the kennel
When shots are fired, hunting dogs bark and hunting horns are sounded, the entire surrounding wildlife is stressed. Recreational hunting is always a form of war!
Dogs used for recreational hunting not infrequently spend the entire year living a bleak existence in an unlawful kennel, only able to run free during hunting season.
Animal Protection Act applies to recreational hunters too
The Animal Protection Ordinance of Switzerland sets out minimum conditions for keeping animals and handling them with care. Dogs must be taken outside daily and walked in accordance with their needs. Transport crates may not be used for permanent housing.
Supposed love of animals
As soon as reliability wanes, the supposed affection of many recreational hunters turns to hatred. Kicks, blows — and for many, ultimately a bullet for the dog. More on the topic of animal welfare issues in recreational hunting and 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. 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.
