the essentials On September 23, a hunting dog competition was organized on the La Pomarède pond under the aegis of the Retriever Club de France. An investigation has just been opened by the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office.
The video is 2 minutes and 13 seconds long. Posted online Thursday by the association We are livingshe sums up in detail the strange and cruel ballet in which Labrador and retriever owners indulged themselves, the last weekend of September on the banks of the La Pomarède pond.
On Saturday 23, The RCF (Retriever Club de France) organizes a competition where dogs are judged on their ability to retrieve game killed or injured by their owner. A practice that the RCF organizes throughout the year and on a regular basis in Aude.
Bernard Caussinus, one of the local organizers, makes no secret of it. “I’ve been organizing competitions for 27 years and everything is done according to the rules,” he says. The video produced by Pierre Rigaux, who presents himself as an ecologist and naturalist, however shows something completely different.
The Castelnaudary gendarmerie is investigating
“We stayed on the site for almost two hours,” explains the videographer. There, the members of Nos Viventia were able to film ducks piled up in crates and witness their sad end. When the bird is removed from its crate, one of the members of the jury breaks the duck’s wings before throwing it towards the body of water. At worst, the bird is struck by a gunshot before hitting the pond, at best – when the hunter misses his shot – the duck is snatched alive by the fangs of a retriever. Bernard Caussinus defends himself from any act of cruelty. “It’s an official RCF judge who removes the wings from the bird, in other words he only removes a few feathers.” And to wonder: “Why wouldn’t it be legal? »
If the release of game is authorized, the RCF’s methods have been under judicial investigation since this Thursday. The Nos Viventia association has in fact filed a complaint with the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office against X for animal abuse. The case was entrusted to the Castelnaudary gendarmerie brigade, which on Thursday went to the town hall of La Pomarède.
“It harms hunting”
Beyond the process which also stunned the president of the approved municipal hunting association (ACCA), the organizers will have to answer other questions. And not the least. Indeed, the demonstration took place on the edge of a pond where hunting is prohibited all year round. “Despite the successive bans,” explains Michel Rouquet, the president of the ACCA, “this gentleman does as he pleases. Moreover, that weekend, several people alerted me, telling me that they heard a lot of gunshots. As a hunter, this type of behavior does not please me. This harms hunting because we will not escape the amalgams.”
The organizer of this field trial remains calm in the face of the coming storm. “We were filmed without our knowledge and on my property,” he explains. These people broke in.” What Pierre Rigaux denies. In the meantime, in article 1 of its regulations, the RCF indicates that “these competitions are not public. Only owners and handlers of hired dogs are admitted.” We understand why.
2023-10-28 09:16:02
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