The use of dogs to hunt and kill wild animals has 'no place in modern Scotland', the environment minister has said
The use of dogs to hunt and kill wild animals has "no place in modern Scotland", the environment minister has said.
The new Hunting with Dogs Bill - which is due to be voted on by MSPs on Tuesday - introduces restrictions that are intended to minimise the risk of wild animals being caught by dogs. Ms McAllan said: "The chasing and killing of a wild mammal, with a dog - for sport or otherwise - has no place in modern Scotland."
The measures are intended to provide further safeguards for wild mammals while allowing land managers access to legitimate and humane animal control measures. Ms McAllan said that while fox hunting has been unlawful in Scotland for 20 years, "deficiencies in the existing legislation have led to ongoing public concern about the persistence of illegal hunting in Scotland".
"The Hunting with Dogs Bill modernises the law and I hope, when passed, will finally mark the end of illegal fox hunting, hare coursing and other forms of unlawful hunting with dogs in Scotland." Labour said the Scottish Government had failed to go far enough with the legislation, saying it "won't deliver a real ban on fox hunting".
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