A farm animal sanctuary located just north of Reno, Nevada near Pyramid Lake
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* Chain-link panels — These would be used to build isolation pens. When new animals come to the sanctuary, they must be kept separate from the others for about 30 days to determine if it's safe from a disease standpoint to introduce them.
* Feed, straw, hay — Any feed, straw or hay will be put to good use. These may be broken bags from stores, straw bales left over from decorations or hay no longer needed if animals die.
* Old towels — These are used for cleaning up and for bedding material, especially for sick animals.
* Horse panels — These allow us to quickly put up temporary pens almost anywhere.
* Bird seed — We feed hundreds of wild birds year-round at CockadoodleMoo and seed is always appreciated.
Sport hunting involves killing animals for enjoyment. It's unnecessary, and the rationalizations of its fans are insupportable by anyone who thinks hurting and killing animals for fun is a morally weak position.
In the future, we'll answer common defenses of hunting. Below, you'll also find a compilation of news stories about hunting that reveal it for what it is.
A hunting group recently sought permission to kill wolf pups in their dens because wolves were keeping the moose population in check so the hunters didn't have to. One common argument in favor of hunting is that it's necessary to keep animal populations in check, but Nature does a fine job when predator populations and habitats aren't artificially manipulated to give hunters more targets.
When this story about killing wolf pups to inflate moose populations is brought up to hunters, they often say most hunters would never support such an awful thing. If that's so, why aren't hunting groups speaking up to oppose this proposal? Click here to read the full Associated Press story; this is an excerpt:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Board of Game deferred a decision on whether to allow residents along the Kuskokwim River to kill wolf pups in their dens.
The game board decided to make no decision on the proposal put forth by the Orutsaramuit Native Council in Bethel and the local advisory committee, but to take it up again at its meeting in Juneau in November. ...
John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, describing the practice as “barbaric,” said the board’s decision to further consider it is troubling.
“It signals to me that there is sentiment to seriously consider this proposal,” he said.
Proponents says the killing of wolf pups is needed because the area around Aniak and McGrath in interior Alaska used to be some of the best moose hunting around, but has fallen off in recent years because wolves and bears are killing too many moose.
Proponents argue that the practice of killing wolf pups in their dens is traditional. The proposal says that societal standards imported from outside Alaska concerning what is “sportsmanship” or “fair chase” resulted in the practice being banned.