Please help stop duck shooting

[cat_mioux]

Duck shooting season is on again :_|

Victoria is one of the last states to legalise this cruelty.

Our beautiful wild ducks suffer untold cruelty. Some take ages to die in pain because they haven't been killed outright. Some drown in the water. Others have been so traumatised they suffer stress related injuries.

This is an example of a letter/email you can send (courtesy of the RSPCA).

To peter.walsh@parliament.vic.gov.au

I am writing to you to ask that you represent my views and those of your constituents for a ban on duck shooting.

I am extremely disappointed that the Coalition Government has allowed a full duck shooting season to commence in Victoria on 16 March. Do you realise that the reality will be a horrifying three months for our native wildlife? One where as many as one in four waterbirds be left to die a slow and painful death - all in the name of ‘sport’?

Just as shockingly, Game Licence fees for junior shooters have been waived, encouraging children as young as twelve years old to kill and maim ducks. Our government is obviously trying to breed a new generation of duck shooters – why, when we should be encouraging welfare friendly activities to our next generation?

With registered shooters in Victoria representing 0.4% of the Victorian community, why does your government continue to pander to their desires, when 87% of Victorians (Morgan Poll) want a ban of this cruel sport? Not only will the large number of people who enjoy our native wetlands for recreational activities and to admire our wildlife be displaced so duck shooters can kill waterbirds, dollars from ecotourism will also be lost.

The animal welfare vote continues to gain momentum especially with a heightened community awareness of animal welfare issues as highlighted recently by recent exposes into the cruelty behind live export.  Please take a stand and help end this legalised cruelty.

We are one of the last states to participate in such blatant cruelty, it’s time to catch up and be a progressive state.

[*ibis]

geez more from the "i don't like it so it should be banned" brigade 

[clair.de.lune]

Hope you didn't break your teeth Donna

[twinkles**stars]

disgraceful sport.....and ironic that a duck last night was caught and his life saved after spear was removed from his neck

[cosmosgrove]

My dad has always hunted, when we were children it was foxes and rabbits. These days it's ducks. I've never heard him refer to duck hunting as a sport? I remember back in the day the field and game association lobbying to reclaim overworked farmland and rehabilitating it to turn it into a game reserve. These days its a point of contention between the activists and the hunters.

Duck shooters should not be shooting rare ducks. They are required to pass an identification test, they should also not be leaving wounded birds lying around that's what retrievers/waders/boats are for. There is also a limit of how many ducks they can take. Irresponsible hunters need to be held accountable. 

And for the record my father enjoys eating the ducks he shoots, he also shares with other friends who enjoy to eat wild duck in return he may get a lobster at Christmas time or home grown vegetables. A responsible hunter is doing nothing that should bother anyone who eats meat. Maybe it's better to eat an animal that has lived a wild and free life than one that has been bred and lives in artificial, cramped and confined quarters ?:|

[topsidesoul]

Oh gawd I hate the practice of shooting things... it isn't as if it proves manhood or anything of vital necessity... it's just damn cruel and destructive.

There is a national park up around Foster in NSW where the council is considering allowing 12 year olds to go in with guns and cross bows to shoot anything that moves...

WHY?  Why would they do that?  My friend says it's because the council want to keep in well with the gun lobby, she is fighting it tooth and nail...

What is wrong with mankind?

BAH X-(

Killing animals for fun at age 12 = future serial killer

[*ibis]

Killing animals for fun at age 12 = future serial killer

There is a national park up around Foster in NSW where the council is considering allowing 12 year olds to go in with guns and cross bows to shoot anything that moves...

anything that moves? i find that hard to believe. got a link for that statement?:|

Killing animals for fun at age 12 = future serial killer

oh god dramatic much......:^O 

[topsidesoul]

There is a national park up around Foster in NSW where the council is considering allowing 12 year olds to go in with guns and cross bows to shoot anything that moves...

anything that moves? i find that hard to believe. got a link for that statement?:|

Killing animals for fun at age 12 = future serial killer

oh god dramatic much......:^O 

Oh god, do you have a problem with every person having an opinion?

If I saw my kid shooting an animal with a crossbow for the hell of it, I'd be a tad worried how this kid will turn out when their older.

Normal people do not do that stuff, unless of course you were like that as a child.

Read some psych books on murderers and one component that links allot of these people seems to be violence and/or killing of pets or animals as well as abuse of siblings at a young age.

[cosmosgrove]

CMG  did you eat the foxes and rabbits?

Why?

A bunch of males with a gun that is a subconscious extension   of their penis,  plus  a group of females who are "acquiescent " worshipers of the gun !!!!

"A responsible hunter" That is the ultimate oxymoron CMG

Are you serious?

[topsidesoul]

We should hunt humans.

Much harder and more of challenge.