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For the record - I don't like swan being killed, esp inhumanely!
I would like to know where the facts came from? "make 1200 to 1500 a pair" & "puppy mill like environments"
Also blaming the breeders- but then wanting them located in private ownership seems contradictory to me...
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I, personally care very much for any animal that is inhumanely killed off due to our (humans) mistakes. I have pigeons for pets and to me they are as beautiful as swans.
SWANS VOICE is - "A group for people who want a HUMANE solution to the killing of Mute Swans. In southern states there isn't much of a feral swan population. Breeders make 1200 to 1500 a pair breeding and selling swans. Some are raised in puppy mill like environments. There is even a mail order...
The DNR's lethal management plan arbitrarily targets a beautiful element of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, causing unjustifiable death and suffering. According to an eye witness, some swans are herded up, bagged and killed by hammer blows to the head and cervical dislocation. "...