A rural town in New Zealand has been forced to cancel its annual rabbit-throwing competition after complaints from animal rights groups.Well, I’m not surprised! For once, the RSPCA is doing a good jo…
In the contest, which is held each year to coincide with the start of the pig hunt, children see how far they can throw a dead rabbit.Wait, what?
But the RSPCA said the rabbit-throw sent a message to children that dead animals were fun and could legitimately be used as a form of entertainment.And food. Don’t forget food!
Mind you, this makes the old admonition ‘Don’t play with your food’ look a little stupid. Just what possessed someone to complain about this? What sort of idiot thinks that dead animals are the remit of the RSPCA?
Charles Cadwallader, animal cruelty inspector, said the rabbit-throw was also cruel.Well, Chuck, my name’s not Fiver or Bigwig, so my dead grandmother isn’t likely to be a bloody rabbit…
"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?" he said.
And I fail to see how you could possibly be ‘cruel’ to an already dead animal…
The organiser of the pig hunt, Jo Moriarty, said the decision to can the event was political correctness gone mad.For once, that hackneyed phrase is perfectly apt, isn’t it?
