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Angling is a cruel pastime

(From thestar.co.uk) – A couple of weeks ago I had lunch in Hillsborough Park with a friend and her young son. I was suprised to see so many pigeons just sitting around, getting up for a stride or two then sitting back down. When my friend”s son started to put some bread out for these birds, to our horror we noticed that bird after bird had their legs totally strangled by discarded fishing line.

For some of these poor creatures the line had been pulled so tight that their legs and feet were being starved of blood and were nearly falling off.

Bird after bird was suffering from this, we must have counted 20 or more birds that were unable to walk and which had their legs cruelly and painfully entangled in fishing line.

Isn’t it time to accept that fishing is an abusive pastime? A pastime that is principally engaged in by people who inflict pain and suffering on harmless creatures and who have no concern for their environment or the people and animals in it.

The memory of the those birds needlessly suffering through the callous irresponsibility of fisherman, quite spoiled our day.

I hope if the RSPCA is reading this, someone will get an inspector down there and try to untangle some of those birds.

(By staff)

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