A hare runs for its life on rain-soaked coursing field

  • 10 years ago
Ireland's hare coursing cruelty - a hare runs for its life from greyhounds on a rain-soaked coursing field.

Every year, thousands of hares are forcefully netted from the wild and used as live bait for greyhounds. Hares caught and hit by the muzzled dogs are likely to suffer painful internal injuries. Every coursing season, hares are injured and killed on coursing fields. Injuries include broken bones and dislocated hips. Please join our campaign for a ban on this disgusting cruelty which a majority in Irish people want banned.

Footage: Aideen Yourell / Irish Council Against Blood Sports

ACTION ALERT

Express your support for a ban on coursing. Sign a petition:

Stop Licensing Hare Coursing
https://www.change.org/p/minister-heather-humphreys-don-t-license-cruel-hare-coursing

Save Irish hares from cruel coursing
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/minister-simon-coveney-replace-hare-coursing-with-drag-coursing

Urge the Arts and Heritage Minister Heather Humphreys to show compassion for the persecuted Irish Hare and withdraw the coursing licence she issued.

Email "Stop the cruelty. Ban Hare Coursing" to Heather.Humphreys@oireachtas.ie,ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie,taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie,joan.burton@oireachtas.ie,wildlifelicence@ahg.gov.ie,Gerry.Leckey@ahg.gov.ie

Phone the Minister's Office: +353 (0)1 631 3800

Please Leave a comment Heather Humphreys' Facebook page, asking her to show compassion for hares and revoke the licence https://www.facebook.com/heather.humphreysfg

Appeal to the Minister for Agriculture

Please appeal to the Minister for Agriculture to remove an exemption for hare coursing from the Animal Health and Welfare Act.

Simon Coveney, TD
Minister for Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Email: Simon.Coveney@oireachtas.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1 607 2884 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Tweet "Ban Coursing" to @simoncoveney

Urgently contact Prime Minister An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and ask him to back a ban on hare coursing.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny
Department of the Taoiseach,
Government Buildings,
Upper Merrion Street,
Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 (0)1 619 4020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie

Find out more about our campaign for a ban on cruel hare coursing - click on "Campaigns" at www.banbloodsports.com

Please consider supporting our campaign with a donation. Click on the Paypal button at at www.banbloodsports.com Thank you.

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