An Irish Council Against Blood Sports fact sheet which exposes the cruelty of carted deerhunting - an activity carried out by the widely condemned Ward Union hunt.
This factsheet Includes an action alert to Ministers John Gormley and Brendan Smith. Please support and help to finally bring this disgusting hunt to an end. Thank you.
Please read our other leaflet which lists the victims of the hunt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29287961/The-Cruelty-of-Carted-Deer-Hunting
www.banbloodsports.com
Direct download link:
http://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/warduion2009.pdf
An Irish Council Against Blood Sports fact sheet which exposes the cruelty of carted deerhunting - an activity carried out by the widely condemned Ward Union hunt.
This factsheet Includes an action alert to Ministers John Gormley and Brendan Smith. Please support and help to finally bring this disgusting hunt to an end. Thank you.
Please read our other leaflet which lists the victims of the hunt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29287961/The-Cruelty-of-Carted-Deer-Hunting
www.banbloodsports.com
Direct download link:
http://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/warduion2009.pdf
An Irish Council Against Blood Sports fact sheet which exposes the cruelty of carted deerhunting - an activity carried out by the widely condemned Ward Union hunt.
This factsheet Includes an action alert to Ministers John Gormley and Brendan Smith. Please support and help to finally bring this disgusting hunt to an end. Thank you.
Please read our other leaflet which lists the victims of the hunt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29287961/The-Cruelty-of-Carted-Deer-Hunting
www.banbloodsports.com
Direct download link:
http://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/warduion2009.pdf
CARTED DEER HUNTING An Irish Council Against Blood Sports Factsheet
Carted deer hunting is Protection of Animals
a cruel activity which Act and we are continu- causes horrific suffer- ing to call for a complete ing to defenceless red ban. deer. It subjects the We are appealing to deer - captive bred Environment Minister, specifically for the John Gormley (Green abuse - to a distress- Party) and Agriculture ing ordeal, leaving Minister, Brendan Smith them exhausted, (Fianna Fail) to follow injured and severely at the example of Northern risk of dying from Ireland where a similar heart failure. hunt was outlawed The red deer used are years ago. taken from a herd which For more information is privately owned by the Exhausted and injured: At the end of the hunt, on the cruelty of carted Ward Union hunt. This the deer is dragged back to the hunt’s trailer. It deer hunting and to find hunt is based in County will be abused again in a future hunt. out how you can support Meath, Ireland. ly tries to outrun the cal distress, panting our action alerts, please Every Tuesday and horseback riders and through its mouth and visit our website at Friday between Nov- the pack of dogs. Being with a lather of white www.banbloodsports ember and mid-March, in unfamiliar terrain, the foam around its muzzle.” .com. Witness the cruel- two deer (stags or hinds) deer has an extremely Reported fatalities ty of carted deer hunting are taken out in a cart to hazardous route ahead. include a deer which on our Youtube Channel a hunt location. They have their antlers sawn Crashing through died of an aneurism, a at www.youtube.com/ off to prevent injuries thorny hedges, over deer that was “acciden- banbloodsports being caused to the walls, across busy pub- tally” choked to death dogs and the manhan- lic roads and even into during capture and a dlers who wrestle them lakes and rivers, the ter- deer which had to be put to the ground at the end rified creature does down after suffering a of each hunt. everything it can to stay broken leg in a collision One deer is turned out ahead. with a car on a public of the trailer, and forced A Department of road (December 2009). to run. The other is kept Agriculture Veterinary ICABS has always Inspector who moni- Desperate to escape, a as a spare in case the contended that this hunt deer slips and falls as first deer is caught too tored a Ward Union hunt is in breach of the 1911 the hounds close in. soon. wrote: “One stag was During the hunt, the seen attempting to jump How can I help end this blood sport? deer is at risk of sustain- a very high fence and Please appeal to Minister John Gormley (he ing injuries as it frantical- getting his front leg licenses the Ward Union deerhunt) and Minister caught on a top strand of Brendan Smith (he is responsible for the barbed wire and hang- Protection of Animals Act) to end carted deer ing, thus suspended, for hunting as a matter of urgency. some seconds before Minister John Gormley Minister Brendan Smith his struggles and/or Dept of the Environment, Dept of Agriculture weight tore him free.” Custom House, Dublin 1. Kildare Street, Dublin 2. He also outlined how a Email: minister Email: minister stag “having run at least @environ.ie @agriculture.gov.ie A deer with its antlers 8 miles in 90 minutes Tel: +353 (0)1 888 2403 Tel: +353 (0)1 607 2000 cut off nervously waits Fax: +353 (0)1 878 8640 Fax: +353 (0)1 661 1013 for the hunt to begin. showed extreme physi- For more information about carted deer hunting, please visit www.banbloodsports.com