Bill Will Allow Using Dogs To Lure Wolves To Be Killed

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Bill Will Allow Using Dogs To Lure Wolves To Be Killed

Idaho is considering this sick possibility

Marc Bekoff | February 20, 2012

Just as I was preparing for a nice relaxing evening I received an email telling me that there is a bill pending in Idaho that will allow ranchers to use live bait, including dogs, to lure in wolves so they can be killed. For a summary of articles about this sickest of sick ideas, please click here and here.

You can register your point of view (nicely, please) but time is of the essence. Idaho Senate Agricultural Affairs Chair Jeff Siddoway can be reached at (208) 332-1330 or by email here. He will be in his office until 10 a.m. (mountain time) on Monday morning (today) before he adjourns for meetings. The committee is meeting at 1:30 p.m. that (this) afternoon to discuss the legislation.

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This article was originally published Feb. 17 on Marc Bekoff's "Animal Emotions" blog at Psychology Today. It is reposted here with the author's permission.

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Submitted by Anonymous on April 25, 2012.

Idaho has to be the most unhappy place in the world to live in to be willing to 'throw their dogs to the wolves'. The pain and suffering incurred by the dogs is less than nothing to the governor let alone the stress on the wolves. I will graduate with a degree in environmental policy and I plan to work with rural communities, ranchers and farmers to reach a consensus on how predators and people can co-exist. Butch Otter, governor of Idaho, said that he wanted to be the first person in Idaho to shoot a wolf. Apparently he has found a use for unwanted animals.

Submitted by Wolf Wizard on February 21, 2012.

This is nothing more than a flagrant act of animal cruelty
and I demand that this barbaric practice to STOP immediately,
OR ELSE we shall continue with our economic sanctions and boycotts
of Idaho until the senseless killing of the animal kingdom
is done away with forever or until Armageddon, whichever comes first!!

And we shall NEVER be silent, regardless of where myself and
my like-minded warriors of our noble pack live at.
We shall NEVER conform to the barbaric ways of the Old West!!!

Submitted by Basil Brown on February 21, 2012.

Idaho has a Facebook page, if you wish to register your disgust. And not that Idaho is a great vacation hot spot, but a boycot would make sense.

The sponsoring senator is not without self interest. This is from Jeff Siddoway's web site: "Juniper Mountain Ranch, an elk and bison hunting preserve, was established by Jeff Siddoway in 2003. Jeff, a fourth generation sheep rancher decided to diversify the family business to include elk and bison in addition to running one of the largest range sheep operations in the west."

Submitted by Ann Ainsworth on February 20, 2012.

Using live animals as bait for wolves is wrong in so many ways. Just the terror an animal would feel that couldn't escape from the wolves is horrible. There are other ways to keep wolves at bay.

Submitted by Anonymous on February 20, 2012.

if you don't live in Idaho... shut up

Submitted by Anonymous on February 22, 2012.

I live in AMERICA @$$(*)# !!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on February 21, 2012.

Too bad - living in Idaho does not give you special god-like rights on animal cruelty.
If you choose to encroach on the wolf native territory don't whine about loss of stock.