A woman from Montana, USA, proudly displayed on Facebook what she thought was the product of a successful hunting day: the lifeless body of “a predatory wolf”. But his task ended up being cruel, because what he killed was a Siberian husky puppy. Now she is sued for cruelty to animals.
Amber Barnes, 36, received a subpoena on the misdemeanor charge after she shot the 6-month-old puppy to death and posted the footage on social media, bragging about killing a young wolf, reports new york post.
In the post, Barnes states this a “predatory wolf pup” killedbut the responses he generated were outrage from animal defenders, many of whom let him know that what he killed was not a wolf.
Convictions in social networks
A Twitter user exploded when he saw the post: “Amber Rose here hunted, shot and SKINned a HUSKY … not a wolf, an obvious #HUSKY. Also, the fact that you call him” puppy “worries me because he thinks that it is right to hunt young animals, which, as you know, is not good for the ecosystem of an area. #revokeyourlicence. “
Another user commented: “Because there are no more people talking about Amber Rose Barnes catching, shooting and then skinning a husky because she ‘thought it was a wolf’ and she didn’t even have a wolf tag.”
After the release and investigation into the footage, which shows Barnes smiling and holding a shotgun while taking pictures with the dead dog’s fur, she was sued by the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, NBC Montana reported. .
Barnes pleaded not guilty on Friday, according to the outlet. What he admitted was that he made a mistake: “Yes, I made a mistake because I thought I was a hybrid wolf pup.” He still claimed to have fired in self-defense, claiming that the animal growled and approached her as if to “eat” her.
Barnes was sued for the misdemeanor instead of being charged with the crime because investigators believed they could prove negligencebut not intentionally, the sheriff’s office told NBC.
The puppy was one of 18 herding and husky dogs abandoned near Doris Creek in Flathead National Forest in mid-September, the sheriff’s office told NBC Montana.
As reported new york postthe other abandoned dogs that were found were taken to the Flathead County Animal Shelter for recovery and given up for adoption.
Source: Clarin
