Ban Pig Dogging
The practice of pig-dog hunting or “pig dogging” represents the cruellest and most barbaric form of hunting in N.S.W. It also has a range of associated social, animal welfare and ecological issues.
Pig-dogging involves the tracking, bailing, pinning and mauling of wild pigs by specially-blooded dogs. Being “blooded” entails being beaten, starved and psychologically abused, making them not back down from pigs approximately 10 times their size.
A hunted pig can suffer severe, extensive and prolonged stress, hurt and injury before a brutal and often slow death, which can also result in extensive injuries to dogs. In many cases, the hunted pigs are actually mauled to death by the hunting dogs before the human handlers arrive. Pictorials in pig-hunting magazines show this situation, or human handlers standing by while the pig is mauled by groups of dogs.
Your petitioners request that the House move to ban this brutal blood “sport.”