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Leaked badger report says cull was inhumane


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study is said to have found that the pilot badg- er culls were ineffective and too many animals suffered. Leaked research com- missioned by the gov- ernment found the num- ber of badgers killed in Gloucestershire and Somerset fell short of targets set to limit the spread of TB in cattle. It also found that up to


18 per cent of the animals took longer than five min- utes to die – many more than the five per cent for the cull to be judged hu- mane.


Meanwhile, a Freedom


of Information request by the Humane Society UK to Natural England shows breaches during the pilot cull including failure to use correct fire- arms and shooting badg-


ers in ways that did not meet best practice. There were 41 visits by Natural England moni- tors during the original six-week cull and the ex- tensions. It has fuelled new calls


from opponents of the cull to abandon the pol- icy. Jeanne


Berry, of


Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting, saidL: “Night after night we witnessed first-hand the barbarity of this cull but even with the tiny amount of monitoring that Natural England did it is clear there were seri- ous issues with humane- ness and also breaches of bio-security and firearms regulations.” The Independent Ex-


pert Panel was appointed by Defra to evaluate the pilots.


Defra said the report


had not yet been pub- lished or submitted to ministers. A spokesman said:


“We knew there’d be les- sons to be learned from the first year of the pi- lot culls, which is why we’re looking forward to receiving the panel’s recommendations for im- proving the way they are carried out.” Farmers and the gov-


ernment insist a cull of badgers, which can spread TB to cattle, is necessary as part of a package of measures to tackle the disease in livestock.


Opponents


of the cull have claimed it would be ineffective and inhumane and have called for tighter meas- ures on farms and vac- cination of both badgers and cattle to tackle TB.


Curfewis imposed on woman who didn’t feed dog properly


A DOG was left danger- ously underweight after being fed on pizza scraps and curry, a court heard. Animal welfare officers raided Christine Hoop- er’s home in Nailsworth after a tip-off about the welfare of her four dogs. A husky and one whip- pet-cross were slightly underweight,


another


whippet in a satisfactory condition, but Sam, the final whippet, was “very


underweight,” Stroud


magistrates heard. They were fed scraps of


pizza and curry thrown over the fence by con- cerned neighbours. A council animal wel-


fare officer told Hooper, 64, of Lawnside, Forest Green, to take Sam to a vet, but when they re- turned a week later, she had not done so. Hooper agreed to sign over Sam to Stroud Dis-


trict Council, where he weighed just 13.3kg. Sam has since been rehomed. Hooper admitted fail-


ing to provide Sam with a suitable diet and failing to protect him from pain, suffering, injury and dis- ease at a court hearing before Christmas The court imposed a


two week curfew between 8pm and 7am as a punish- ment and ordered Hooper to pay costs of £400.


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