Inhumane solution?

The Province
Published: Monday, October 06, 2008

I am shocked that the RCMP won't lay charges in the rabbit-stomping situation in Kelowna because it considers those actions didn't constitute animal cruelty.

An employee of EBB Environmental Consulting, hired to kill wild rabbits, apparently missed shooting the rabbit in a vital spot, so she allegedly stomped it, without success. Another employee then broke the rabbit's neck.

And all this is now legal? Hunters know the skill needed to kill an animal with an air rifle. Perhaps the EBB company isn't training its employees properly.

So stomping is OK? Or, according to a local vet, clubbing an animal to death was humane too. How accurate is clubbing a struggling rabbit? Did the SPCA agree to this stomping or clubbing as one of the "humane options" available to EEB Consulting?

George Clements
Fur-Bearer Defenders