Cull cruelty on camera
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:
CHICAGO – –Steve Hindi and Chicago
Animal Rights Coalition colleagues used remote-con-
trolled miniature night-vision cameras in January to
get rare video footage––aired by many local TV sta-
tions––of DuPage County Forest Preserve staff catch-
ing deer in rocket nets and killing them with a captive-
bolt gun.
“One animal was seen jumping as the net
was fired, only to fall on her back. Another deer was
dragged by three others in a net as they tried to escape.
Her head was pulled under her body. Still another
deer suffered for at least 35 minutes,” Hindi said.
Shown the video on January 18, the DuPage
commissioners voted 11-10 to suspend the rocket-net-
ting. But on February 7 they allowed it to resume “for
research,” with the deer thus caught to be radio-col-
lared. Only deer injured by the rocket-netting would
be dispatched with the captive bold gun. Culling con-
tinues via sharpshooting.