From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)

We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.

Thank you for using the humane Havahart device

Letter as published on NY Daily News
November 6, 2023

Tuckahoe, N.Y.:

To Voicer Dan Arthur Pryor: Thank you for using the humane Havahart device to avoid harming wildlife. However, you didn’t read my letter thoroughly: I said nothing about any “clash of hunters and wildlife.” I clearly and repeatedly spoke in favor of a state bill to stop cruel wildlife killing contests, period.

I said this bill does not stop standard hunting or fishing contests. I cited the fact that even people like Hunter’s Institute founder Jim Posewitz are against these contests. People change — we grow and evolve.

As you mentioned, you previously would have used a musket to kill animals, now you compassionately trap and release them instead. In the same way, we realize that making a contest out of killing is abhorrent and beneath us.

We realize we are better than that. 

Kiley Blackman 

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