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Please Support LD 1598: An Act To Strengthen the Laws against Illegal "Puppy Mill" Operators |
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Please read --time sensitive. Action needed before legislative committee work session!
Support L.D. 1598 to help provide prosecutors and judges with the tools to more easily prosecute puppy mill cases like Buxton. And to help deter others from hoarding or setting up a puppy mill.
Please submit polite supporting testimony for L.D 1598; make 20 copies and send to the committe clerk Darlene Simoneau at the address posted.
If anyone of the 13 members is YOUR legislator please be sure to contact them and ask them to support the ENTIRE bill.
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Join Our Campaign to End Canned Hunting in Maine |
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A BAN ON CANNED HUNTING INTRODUCTION
During each legislative session, Maine Friends of Animals chooses a focus issue, such as our ‘Dogs Chained for Life’ campaign and the recent bear referendum to ban baiting, hounding and trapping of Maine black bears. Our focus for this upcoming session is ‘canned hunting.’
Canned hunting is a hunting practice held on so called "hunting ranches", which are privately owned lands in Maine that enclose non-native wildlife behind fenced-in land. The landowner charges fees for people to kill these animals which have no chance of escaping. Please read on and view our canned hunting fact sheet for more information concerning these operations in Maine.
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Short video overview of MFOA’s Ban on Canned Hunting Campaign |
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Comments from Hunting Advocates on Canned Hunting in Maine |
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Fair chase "is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of free-ranging wild animals in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper or unfair advantage over the animal...big game confined by artificial barriers for commercial shooting are ineligible."
The Boone & Crocket Club
"Hunting Behind Wire" by Bob Humphrey, Maine Sportsman
"These types of hunts are not looked upon in the best light by the public and the Department needs to consider if this is the type of hunting we want to promote,"
Former DIF&W Commissioner Lee Perry
Bangor Daily News
"I don't care if its elk farmers or Zulu hunters doing it. I don't want this called hunting, because it is not hunting if you are doing it in an enclosed area." .... "Basically I just don't think it's hunting. There's a real fair-chase issue here. It's shooting something in a barrel, as far as I am concerned."
Rep. Matt Dunlap
Former House chair of IFW Committee
Sportsman's Alliance of Maine News and Bangor Daily News
"Hunting and fishing in the woods and waters of Maine have a long and storied tradition. It seems to me that any Mainer familiar with the outdoors would realize that canned hunts are not only unfair but not sporting."
Governor John Baldacci
Bangor Daily News
But the Department of Agriculture doesn't want to regulate them either. "We are production driven. This hunt, or whatever you want to call it is certainly not agricultural production."
Chip Ridky, former State Veterinarian
"Hunting Behind Wire" by Bob Humphrey, Maine Sportsman
"In northern New England, the pride is in the chase, not the kill. When someone creates a situation where the chase is not an important part of the process, they're attacking the culture. I'm surprised they even opened a place like that in Maine."
Jeff Brown, President of the Northeast Buck Club
The Boston Globe
"I'm concerned about Maine's culture and heritage. This is not who we are."
Sen. Marge Kilkelly, former Agriculture Committee member and bill sponsor
The Boston Globe
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