Witness to a pigeon shoot: Hundreds of birds shot, the wounded pummeled
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Amy Worden, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer
When animal welfare groups release video depicting horrendous conditions and mistreatment of animals at a slaughterhouse or a puppy mill, often the operators charge that the video was doctored or fake.
Such is the case at Pennsylvania pigeon shoots, the activity, now conducted only at private hunting clubs, that the NRA defends as a "proud hunting tradition" and animal activists call a brutal blood bath.
(I explain the debate over the shoots and the cruelty issue in my story in today's Inquirer.)
Last week though I was invited by the animal welfare group SHark (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) to one of the few remaining pigeon shoot sites in Pennsylvania and see for myself.
