{"id":14928,"date":"2014-03-18T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14928"},"modified":"2014-03-23T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:48:24","slug":"the-raccoon-bill-so-called-hb423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-raccoon-bill-so-called-hb423\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raccoon Bill so called HB423( Shared with Georgia wildlife commission)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia wants \u00a0a new law passed<\/p>\n<p>to open up a way<\/p>\n<p>of training dogs to<\/p>\n<p>scare the life out<\/p>\n<p>of wild souls<\/p>\n<p>they say<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the raccoon doesn&#8217;t get killed<\/p>\n<p>so whats it all about<\/p>\n<p>it illustrates the perversion<\/p>\n<p>of \u00a0what hunting is<\/p>\n<p>I doubt<\/p>\n<p>they even stopped to contemplate<\/p>\n<p>the rigour and the pain<\/p>\n<p>the stress it causes to a wild soul<\/p>\n<p>trapped<\/p>\n<p>its the disdain<\/p>\n<p>of putting a frightened earthling<\/p>\n<p>into a metal cage<\/p>\n<p>the object of the exercise<\/p>\n<p>to drive the dogs to rage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to tear around and growl and bark<\/p>\n<p>to violate and scare<\/p>\n<p>its menacing, its ominousness<\/p>\n<p>its threatful and unfair<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this is a feral animal<\/p>\n<p>trapped and in a cage<\/p>\n<p>the raccoon is very adaptable<\/p>\n<p>but would find it hard to gauge<\/p>\n<p>the severity of the moment<\/p>\n<p>it intimidates and shocks<\/p>\n<p>its a challenge to their being<\/p>\n<p>humanity unlocks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>malevolent intention<\/p>\n<p>blood thirstiness for we<\/p>\n<p>can hear those raging dogs<\/p>\n<p>their base ferocity<\/p>\n<p>as such the \u00a0worst intentions<\/p>\n<p>will be picked up and we<\/p>\n<p>want to pass a bill to let this<\/p>\n<p>happen tragically<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to legitimize feral trapping<\/p>\n<p>of live raccoons as bait<\/p>\n<p>for sporting competitions<\/p>\n<p>I just cannot relate<\/p>\n<p>to people who would do this<\/p>\n<p>to another living soul<\/p>\n<p>who has as much right<\/p>\n<p>to be where it was put<\/p>\n<p>in its den or in its hole<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>if its opportunistic<\/p>\n<p>it has a mind to feel<\/p>\n<p>and being dragged across a field<\/p>\n<p>how would that appeal<\/p>\n<p>its barbaric even<\/p>\n<p>to contemplate<\/p>\n<p>the rigour of that scene<\/p>\n<p>it smacks of a<\/p>\n<p>malfeasance<\/p>\n<p>and of course its extremely mean<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>game animals<\/p>\n<p>sport hunting<\/p>\n<p>this vile terminology<\/p>\n<p>is speaking of a created soul<\/p>\n<p>with a place in life<\/p>\n<p>the key<\/p>\n<p>issue here<\/p>\n<p>its habitat<\/p>\n<p>its being lost to those<\/p>\n<p>who move in<\/p>\n<p>and expect wild souls<\/p>\n<p>to go the way of crows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we also must remember<\/p>\n<p>wild feral souls can be<\/p>\n<p>a risk, to the canine tribe<\/p>\n<p>diseases they can free<\/p>\n<p>distemper<\/p>\n<p>parvovirus<\/p>\n<p>rabies it can be<\/p>\n<p>a risk and we must<\/p>\n<p>understand<\/p>\n<p>the true complexity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That animals will be set free<\/p>\n<p>once the trainings done<\/p>\n<p>is no argument to do this<\/p>\n<p>it leaves me cold<\/p>\n<p>to have won<\/p>\n<p>one&#8217;s freedom<\/p>\n<p>after being trapped and tortured<\/p>\n<p>seems to me<\/p>\n<p>we have not learned a great deal<\/p>\n<p>from our chequered history<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>copy shared with local TV station that aired the debate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"id_532f632788ca81049002403\">WE WON! The raccoon torture bill (HB 423) has been defeated! The Georgia General Assembly 2014 session has ended and HB 423, which would have allowed hunters to use live raccoons as bait to train their dogs, DID NOT PASS. We extend a huge t&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Anti-Fur-Society\/224916607521816#\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;e&quot;}\">See more<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/celi.boudet\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;;&quot;}\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100003119974583&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D\">Celi Boudet<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/browse\/participants\/?q=AeIKBIfZne7kYVEMCGeZt3fGQddGL4-rZ9aKKDySzF9kUzq8ZMGT6xkZKiUTlH3kgjZl4bFfiBM2pNnfPnfICi0woFN05lQW92AbFO0NNw-g6Q_jf5ilNmU8Ru-KIwEvwmS0MGIb_Io2CuiHddRHy20r1bPfdcHpx1oLiXG1G1dUubX_55O_FJSl9Q7c3QXycakQUVLJNKi6LehG_UsBOvXvlb2maAVqAnd0HU3IvZi1lhxxOxlf_xXijQCnbgIkfRHtagDGc3F1ct6in5Nhg2SI\" rel=\"dialog\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"below\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:90,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;l&quot;}\">2 others<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia wants \u00a0a new law passed to open up a way of training dogs to scare the life out of wild souls they say &nbsp; the raccoon doesn&#8217;t get killed so whats it all about it illustrates the perversion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-raccoon-bill-so-called-hb423\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,102,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-raccoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14928"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14930,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928\/revisions\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}