PHILADELPHIA'S SHAME: Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots

The Issue

Almost daily, hundreds of hungry feral pigeons are snatched from city streets by criminal poachers that illegally transport them across state lines to be sold to Pennsylvania's Shooting Clubs.

Special celebrations are planned where these "sportsmen" and their families, engage in contest shoots of canned, disoriented, scared and starving wild birds that are catapulted out of small boxes where they have been kept for days.

Animal advocates organizations like the HSUS and S.H.A.R.K have tried repeatedly to ban pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania.  But often they encounter oposition from officials, like Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams who, in spite of strong evidence (which included video), ordered animal cruelty charges withdrawn against the Pike Township Sportsmen's Association.

Among the activities of these  so called " social clubs" are the following:

 http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000854​

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Lily RoccoPetition StarterThe animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1888-1968)
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The Issue

Almost daily, hundreds of hungry feral pigeons are snatched from city streets by criminal poachers that illegally transport them across state lines to be sold to Pennsylvania's Shooting Clubs.

Special celebrations are planned where these "sportsmen" and their families, engage in contest shoots of canned, disoriented, scared and starving wild birds that are catapulted out of small boxes where they have been kept for days.

Animal advocates organizations like the HSUS and S.H.A.R.K have tried repeatedly to ban pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania.  But often they encounter oposition from officials, like Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams who, in spite of strong evidence (which included video), ordered animal cruelty charges withdrawn against the Pike Township Sportsmen's Association.

Among the activities of these  so called " social clubs" are the following:

 http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000854​

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dKZWfpjqeKA/default.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list%3Fp%3DCF9D64BB246422D3&usg=__A46rXSFrnFtaMAwh9lhlbzVAVpc=&h=90&w=120&sz=5&hl=en&start=26&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=ace4-_an7JjKAM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bpigeon%2Bshoots%2Bin%2Bpa%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGIH_enUS275US275%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1

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Lily RoccoPetition StarterThe animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1888-1968)
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Petition created on January 28, 2010