Wild West in a Horse Paddock
The hunting leaseholder of the territory in the Waldemser district confuses a coldblood horse with a wild boar late on Saturday evening and kills both animals with multiple shots.
Horse Shot Dead on Pasture
The hunting leaseholder was tracking a wild boar and fired several shots. One struck the coldblood horse standing peacefully with its herd on the pasture. On Sunday morning, the recreational hunter contacted the horse owners and claimed a “mix-up.”
Criminal Police Investigating
The Wiesbaden criminal police are investigating the circumstances. Had it been a wolf, there would have been an uproar across all of Germany. More on the topic of crime and hunting and animal welfare issues.
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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.
