Do pigeon shoots constitute cruelty?
PA judge set to decide March 15, 2010 By Amy Worden Philly Dawg UPDATE: For more on the politics of pigeon shoots, take a look at Bloomsburg University professor Walter Brasch’s piece in the Daily Kos today. In what could be a landmark animal welfare case, a Dauphin County district judge will hear animal cruelty charges against a gun club that holds live pigeon shoots. Humane agent Johnna Seeton filed 23 charges of animal cruelty last week against the Erdman Sportsmens Association, Inc., east of Harrisburg, for actions during a pigeon shoot on June 7, 2009. Seeton said she witnessed wounded birds thrown in a barrel with dead pigeons and children being used to pick up wounded birds, both violations of a 1995 court order specifying that no children would be involved in disposal of pigeons and that any wounded birds be destroyed in a humane manner. Seeton, who works as an agent for the Pennsylvania Legislative Animal Network, attempted to file similar charges against the Pike Township Spo
