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Pheasant shooting - cruel spectacle they call sport

11:37am Saturday 15th January 2011 in Letters By Reader's letter

I AM putting pen to paper to get this cruel experience out of my mind.

I was in my kitchen preparing lunch when I heard a terrific bang; it shook the windows.

I looked outside and on the ground was a beautiful pheasant dying. The colours of his feathers were magnificent.

The pheasant had been shot in both wings and could not make it over my roof to get away from the killing fields, so he hit my window and slid down bleeding, and now he is dead.

What cruelty to have to see, what suffering, pain and terror this poor bird went through – and they call this sport. This was very painful for myself and my family.

We are bird lovers and feed them every day, for they are a joy. In a few months, the pheasants I feed will be shot dead. Then it starts up again next year and they suffer the same fate.

Mrs B Mackfall, Scoreby, York.

Comments(8)

Mentos says...
11:42am Sat 15 Jan 11

If anyone kills an animal it should be for food only

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Hammerton Hamster says...
12:37pm Sat 15 Jan 11

There are some very good and convincing arguments for how such things as pheasant management helps out countryside. What I've yet to see is a good argument for people getting pleasure out of killing things. That is the rub, IMHO.

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Biggles Breaks his Silence says...
12:57pm Sat 15 Jan 11

Mentos wrote:
If anyone kills an animal it should be for food only
Maybe Mrs Macfall has hung it ready for dinner next week.....

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Silver says...
6:16pm Sat 15 Jan 11

Biggles Breaks his Silence wrote:
Mentos wrote:
If anyone kills an animal it should be for food only
Maybe Mrs Macfall has hung it ready for dinner next week.....
Waste not want not

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Grace from York says...
9:34pm Sat 15 Jan 11

I hope Mrs Macfall is a vegetarian. Otherwise she is two-faced or at least incredibly naive. There are far more animals suffering horrendous deaths in slaughterhouses after being born into captivity. I get annoyed by people who criticise the acts of the local farming community and then drive to Asda to buy their weekly meat.

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Hammerton Hamster says...
9:40am Sun 16 Jan 11

That is why I made my distinction, Grace, its not the need for animal management that makes me wonder, its the fact that some people derive pleasure from the actual process of killing. Personally, blasting a living thing to bits would only sicken and sadden me.

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York Fox says...
2:32pm Mon 17 Jan 11

Grace from York wrote:
I hope Mrs Macfall is a vegetarian. Otherwise she is two-faced or at least incredibly naive. There are far more animals suffering horrendous deaths in slaughterhouses after being born into captivity. I get annoyed by people who criticise the acts of the local farming community and then drive to Asda to buy their weekly meat.
Spot on Grace. I would expect that someone did shoot this bird to eat, just that they didn't do it very well. I guess the alternative is locking them up in battery cages as with chickens? Surely running wild is the best life possible?

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Silver says...
8:43pm Tue 18 Jan 11

Also not everyone can be a brilliant shot. Even the police have missed when they've aimed at horses.

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