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Drag coursing video shows there is no need for hares in coursing
08 March 2013
Video footage captured by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports last weekend shows that there is absolutely no need for hares in coursing. Witness drag coursing in action to see greyhounds enthusiastically chasing an artificial lure.
ICABS has renewed its call on Minister Simon Coveney to remove an exemption for coursing from the Animal Health and Welfare Bill and put in place a full ban on live hare coursing.
"There is absolutely no need for snatching hares from the wild and using them as live lures before greyhounds, when there is a mechanical lure form of coursing which works well," ICABS spokesperson Aideen Yourell told the Minister. "With a perfectly acceptable and workable alternative available, the time is right for you to stop hare coursing.”
Recently, an Irish Coursing Club representative claimed during a radio debate that coursing greyhounds wouldn’t follow a drag but we saw it with our own eyes. Our video footage shows greyhounds following the drag (rag) without the slightest hesitation, time and time again.
Minister Coveney has been told that the implementation of drag coursing would result in savings for the taxpayer as National Parks & Wildlife Service rangers would no longer have to spend many man hours monitoring live hare coursing.
But the main beneficiary of drag coursing would be our timid wild hare population which would, at last, be left in peace and spared the cruelty of being netted from the wild and forced to run for dear life in front of greyhounds.
Live hare coursing is outlawed in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and it’s time for our Republic to ban this cruelty. With this humane drag alternative, there’s no excuse any more for coursing cruelty.
ACTION ALERT
Contact Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney and urge him to remove exemptions for coursing and hunting from the Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012. Tell him that cruel coursing and hunting can easily be replaced by the humane alternatives - drag coursing and drag hunting.
Minister Simon Coveney
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Tel: 01-607 2884 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Fax: 01-661 1013.
Contact all your local TDs now. Ask them to watch our drag coursing footage and support a ban on coursing and foxhunting. The link to the drag coursing video is http://youtu.be/ZA7ZZOWO3Nk
Find out the names of your TDs and their email addresses.
http://www.oireachtas.ie/members%2Dhist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=31&disp=const
http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/Members_emails/document1.htm
If you prefer to post a letter to your TDs, address your correspondence to:
Dail Eireann
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2.
Please also arrange a meeting with your TDs at their local clinics. Contact us for details.
Videos: the cruelty of live hare coursing
See our video footage of hares being mauled at the JP McManus-sponsored coursing event at Limerick Racecourse in February 2013. Drag coursing would eliminate the cruelty to hares and show the world that Ireland is progressive in its treatment of animals.
ACTION ALERT
Please sign our petition - Limerick Racecourse: Stop hosting cruel hare coursing
Ask Limerick Racecourse to stop hosting hare coursing.
Russell Ferris
General Manager
Limerick Racecourse,
Greenmount Park,
Patrickswell,
Co Limerick
Email: info@limerickraces.ie
Telephone: +353 (0)61 320000
Fax: +353 (0)61 355766
Facebook: http://facebook.com/limerickraces
Twitter: @LimerickRaces
Urgently contact An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and An Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore. Ask them to show compassion for wildlife and introduce an immediate ban on bloodsports.
An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny
Department of the Taoiseach,
Telephone: 01-6194020
An Tanaiste, Eamon Gilmore
Office of the Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Tel: 01 6183566 (Dail) or 01 408 2000 (Iveagh House)
Email Both: eamon.gilmore@oireachtas.ie;taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
Ask Limerick Racecourse to reject hare coursing
19 February 2013
The management of Limerick Racecourse is being asked to view footage of hares hit and mauled at the venue and stop hosting the cruel blood sport. The Irish Cup coursing meet is due to take place again at the racecourse this month. Please join our appeal now.
In February 2012, ICABS filmed hares being severely mauled at this event. See video footage below and respond to our action alert now.
Videos: Cruelty to hares at Limerick Racecourse (2012)
ACTION ALERT
Please sign our petition - Limerick Racecourse: Stop hosting cruel hare coursing
Ask Limerick Racecourse to stop hosting hare coursing.
Russell Ferris
General Manager
Limerick Racecourse,
Greenmount Park,
Patrickswell,
Co Limerick
Email: info@limerickraces.ie
Telephone: +353 (0)61 320000
Fax: +353 (0)61 355766
Twitter: @LimerickRaces
Videos: Coursing Cruelty
How to eliminate the hare from coursing
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