AR-News: (NZ) Injured hound unsuitable for hunt

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Chris Morris
The Otago Hunt club insists its decision not to pay for the treatment of one 
of its harrier hounds, injured after falling down a 30m cliff last Thursday, 
is not about money. 
It emerged yesterday the club was the owner of the 8-month-old pup, named 
May, that needed rescuing from a Tunnel Beach cliff. The hound, one of nearly 20 
the club owns, had a badly fractured elbow after its fall and was in need of a 
$500 orthopaedic operation. 
An Otago Hunt club member, present during the three-hour rescue operation, 
decided to sign over the dog to the SPCA once the injury was confirmed, rather 
than pay for the operation. 
However, when contacted yesterday, Otago Hunt president Anne Beattie insisted 
the decision to give up the hound was for purely practical reasons. The pup's 
injury meant it would be unable to hunt effectively as an adult, and would be 
targeted by other hounds.



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http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=26Mar2004&object=HPG30B4689IO&type=h
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