Harry's treatment of animals

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Just saw the photo of Harry's bleeding polo pony on a different thread.

Why hasn't he been prosecuted for this animal abuse?

Agree.

They're not experts, they just want to feel big. Twats.

Yes, people do like to focus on "niche" cruelties. The Queen's race horses? Nothing to see here.....

Princess Anne fox hunter

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1477845/Princess-Anne-goes-hunting-despite-ban.html

Prince Philip shoots Tiger and Queen poses with him next to dead Tiger.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royals-bloody-trophy-hunting-past-23410242.amp

I don't know how they can square hunting and other cruelties with their environmental stuff. When the Duke of Edinburgh died there was a lot written about what an amazing environmentalist he was, and yet he'd shot a tiger in India and posed for the inevitable photo with its body. So trophy hunting is OK? Seriously, why do people have to shoot these animals when they could track them or photograph them alive? No wonder his grandsons have double standards.

Never forget when Harry rode his pregnant polo pony to a heart attack.

www.animalaid.org.uk/massacre-windsor-estate-7000-wild-animals-killed-one-year/

The victims included:
• 3901 pigeons
• 1161 rabbits
• 772 jackdaws
• 325 squirrels
• 191 crows
• 159 foxes
• 56 roe deer
• 28 hares
• 9 moles

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is estimated to have shot at least 30,000 animals and birds, including deer, rabbit, hare, wild duck, snipe, woodcock, teal, pigeon, partridge and pheasant.
Although he has now bowed to public outrage and given up big game hunting, he has in the past taken part in an Indian tiger shoot, despite protests from British and Indian politicians.
On that same trip he killed a crocodile and six urials (mountain sheep).
He continued to enjoy shooting wild boar and travelled to Germany to do so. On one occasion he and Prince Charles are said to have killed 50 wild boar in a single day.

The police have “regularly investigated” the Windsors’ estate, but as Protect the Wild has reported, UK laws protect the royals from being investigated properly, because police are banned from entering the King’s estates without his permission.

Getting away with murder.

Kate Middleton participates in the annual massacre, killing pheasants, partridges, and ducks. A royal “insider” said of Kate in 2018:
“She frequently goes out shooting when she is staying at Anmer Hall [the Cambridges’ country home at Sandringham] and has become a really good shot. She is very much into the hunting, shooting and fishing country lifestyle. [Her] 20-gauge smooth bore gun is ideal for shooting game birds.”
Kate, who is “a keen markswoman” according to the Daily Mail, has been photographed on a number of different shoots over the years. Photos show her collecting pheasants in 2007, and holding her shotgun on a grouse shoot in 2009. She also sparked controversy when she was photographed deer stalking at Balmoral in 2007.

'As for William, he is, ironically, the patron of the British Trust for Ornithology (taking over from his trigger-happy grandfather Philip). Yet William and his wife introduced their small son George to grouse shooting from an early age, ensuring that the little prince was brainwashed into supporting their murderous ways. It is beyond belief that, though this patronage, the prince purports to care for birds, yet guns down grouse (as well as other birds). William would likely make the claim that grouse shooting helps with conservation on the moors, that he is helping to keep a balance in the ecosystem. But there is nothing noble about an industry that meddles with said ecosystem by keeping a native population of birds artificially high, just so that they can be murdered for profit and kicks.'

This.

They're all animal abusing scrofulous inbred troglodytes. The fucking lot of them

A quick Google shows pics of the ginger one with a stag he shot, the bald one shooting pheasants and the late deceased half German one with a slaughtered tiger. And the RSPCA has the word royal at the start of the acronym?

I'll make it clear first of all that I don't believe in cruelty. Kicking a pony until it bleeds is cruel, and unregulated hunting is cruel.
In the UK pest control needs to be paid for. Herds of deer left unchecked, whether invasive or indigenous is devastating to farming - our food production. Leaving large flocks of birds such as pigeons and crows etc is also very damaging. The fact is that hunting and shooting is huge for the countryside economy, which is frankly on its knees at the minute. I absolutely don't agree with cruelty, but without people paying anything from £400+ for a cheap day at a farmer's shoot to do pest control for you, you would see a massive shift for the worse in the countryside and in British food production. Stag shooting btw is a different kettle of fish, I'm going to get the details wrong here as I only listen with half an ear, but you need a license to shoot on an estate, which you pay for, where you must demonstrate competence at identifying different type of deer, you have to know the seasons and you need a rifle license, which is separate to a shot gun license.
Where I live there are several good pheasant shoots, who support the countryside by maintaining important copses, woodlands and heathland. The local pub landlords obviously have bumper takings on shoot day and the shoot provides important income for the host farmer.

OP, are you going to change your thread title now that you must realise Harry isn’t the only Royal who doesn’t care about animals? Orwas this just another attempt to try to get others to bash Harry? I’m so glad posters can see the Royals for the animal abusers that they are.

The Royals don’t need to be involved in. The end.

I have a 34 year old ex polo pony. I’ve cared for her for 19 years now and every day I groom and stroke her. Even now, every time I first lift my hand anyhwere near her head she flinches as though she’s about to be hit. She came from Argentina and grooms there do tend to have a bad reputation.

They don't need to be, but as land and farm owners, why shouldn't they be. You can bet that royal attendance on a shoot would mean a bumper tip purse for the gamekeeper and beaters - not necessarily from HRH, but certainly from their well healed entourage.

@Tempnamechng

You do realise that pheasant shooting isn't a round up of a few local naughty birds and that their numbers are artificially inflated as a money making scheme?

www.animalaid.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Pheasant-shooting-factsheet-2007-web.pdf

I quite agree.

I've recently had this argument on another thread.

In your attempt to Harry bash you forgot its a family past time.

There are some species which are out of control and need to be culled. Magpies, for example, will strip an area of all other birds, eating their eggs and throwing young out of nests. Wood pigeons seem to have no predators - there are huge flocks of them in my (suburban) garden.

I can’t pretend to really understand countryside management, so I can only comment on the polo pony injury which is clear to see and is quite sickening.

I don't remember seeing bleeding ponies when other royals are playing, and the only one where there has been a fatality is Harry.

Maybe however he's just unlucky, rather than it being anything to do with his riding and choice of type of spurs

I do have a barn full of pheasant chicks that we are rearing for a local shoot, so yes, I know they aren't indigenous. They make good eating though and the shoot we help has a contract with a game butcher to take what is left from "the bag" once the guns and beaters have taken what they want. If you don't agree with eating meat then I respect that, but as the only vegetarian in my home, I would much rather feed my family a bird that was released into the wild in June / July, lived a free, healthy life, then shot in the winter than some poor bird that was reared in a barn, killed at 16 weeks and wrapped in plastic to be offered at Tescos for a pittance. This is so far from the Prince Harry photo point of the post, I know, and at the end of the day, we aren't going to agree, but its important that people get a different perspective.