Uproar over pig-dogging 'blood sport'

Animal rights activists are in up in arms over a brutal and highly aggressive form of hunting known as pig-dogging. The practice involves training dogs to hunt and kill wild boars and is the only form of conservation hunting in Australia that pits two animals against each other. Some consider pig-dogging as the ultimate adrenalin rush - a man's sport on which they spend thousands of dollars a year.

Others, however, say it is nothing but animal torture. And in a move that has outraged activists and politicians, hunters have been posting videos of the brutal killings on the internet. Most of the videos obtained by 7.30 were too distressing to broadcast. Some show feral pigs being grossly mutilated before being re-released into forests and hunters using staple guns to close the wounds of their maimed dogs.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-17/uproar-over-pigdoging-27bloodsport27/4136650