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Humane group slams Cheney for 'canned' hunt
Manly sportsman Dick 'dick' Cheney is being criticized for shooting duck and pheasant "in a barrel" Monday at the exclusive PA Rolling Rock Club (see VP takes time from busy fundraising schedule to hunt varmints, Monday, December 08).
An employee of the private club said that Cheney shot about 70 stocked pheasants and mallards that were released for a group of hunters. More than 400 of the farm-raised birds were killed in all.
The Humane Society on Tuesday called it a "deplorable" form of hunting, because the pen-reared birds are not in their natural habitat. The HSUS also questioned the ethics of what it calls "canned hunts."
"This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals."
December 11, 2003
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