10-18-2005, 10:49 AM
Quote:eBay under fire over advert to kill red deer
Campaigners attack internet listing of gin traps
An online auction offering the opportunity to kill a "trophy red deer stag" has been removed by the internet site eBay amid protests from an animal welfare group. Bidding had already begun for the right to shoot the animal, which was pictured with its large crown of antlers in an "enclosed woodland habitat" somewhere in Devon.
The League Against Cruel Sports described the sale as "shocking" and also condemned eBay for carrying listings for gin traps - the old-fashioned devices with serrated jaws which spring shut and maim animals such as foxes, deer and badgers
It has been illegal to set gin traps since 1954..
"...Is eBay the new online death centre?"
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