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# Kruger Gets Behind Animal Rights Legislation
- URL: https://bklyner.com/kruger-gets-behind-animal-rights-legislation-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-04-06T13:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2010-04-06T13:00:30.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: animal rights, #API-Imported

State Senator Carl Kruger may not [care much for gay rights](/sheepsheads-senators-stand-alone-in-gay-rights-battle/), but he’s pulling his weight on animal rights issues.

Kruger sponsored a bill in the State Senate that would make illegal “canned shoots” – fenced-in hunting facilities where shooters pay to kill animals that are not wild. The bill is being touted by the Humane Society as a step forward in stopping the unfair slaying of animals.

According to the [Legislative Gazette](http://www.legislativegazette.com/Articles-c-2010-04-05-66540.113122%5FAnimal%5Frights%5Fgroup%5Fseeks%5Fa%5Fbasic%5Flevel%5Fof%5Fdecency.html?ref=bklyner.com), the Humane Society says so-called hunters use the rigged shoots to obtain trophy-size animals to decorate their homes with. Animals are often raised by private breeders, they say, and make no effort to escape because of previous human contact. On the [society’s website ](http://www.humanesocietyny.org/humane%5Fissues/legislation.php?ref=bklyner.com#A6788)they write that “lions raised as pets who end up at canned hunt facilities would lick the hands of hunters before being shot. In another widely reported case, a ram stood still as arrows were repeatedly shot at the defenseless animal.” Which begs the question, who the hell would go from having their hand licked by a lion to shooting it in the freakin’ face?