Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

Attorney Julia Dudley said Blevins had bought animals for several years from trappers in different states and brought them to Virginia to sell to the owners of "fox pens." He was caught after a yearlong investigation by Virginia game officials that included the undercover purchases of 54 red foxes and 47 coyotes from Blevins.

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Virginia Fox Trafficking Coyotes 100

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. No one can “own” wildlife.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums. State game departments have a mandate to serve all the citizens of their state, not just the ones with guns. What if they’re shot?

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

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MARCH 28, 2014

Foxes, coons, coyotes, possums and hawks all get a free meal that lasts for days on some of the larger shoots.”. The difference, of course, is that at the end of a ball game your opposing team, their family, and all their friends are not lying in pools of blood while you stand over them, feeling really good.

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Killing Hunting Hunters Possums 260

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AUGUST 31, 2011

At this age, they are also able to make short flights, a highly desirable trait for game birds. California Quail , being ground nesting game birds, have many predators which are assumed to be the primary cause of the specie’s mortality. My guess is that these chicks are about five weeks old.

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