by Adam Lynch
May 9, 2008
Former Mississippi Sen. Mike Gunn has caught the interest of the national Humane Society after allegedly killing baby geese in his gas grill April 25. A neighbor spied the former Republican legislator and tobacco lobbyist allegedly catching seven goslings and killing them in his grill before throwing their bodies into a garbage can.
The Humane Society is calling for a full investigation into the allegations. Gunn is currently charged with killing geese out of season, but could be prosecuted under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The society said the state needed tougher anti-cruelty laws.
“Because Mississippi’s anti-cruelty law is one of the nation’s weakest, actions as heinous as killing goslings in a grill have to be treated as poaching violations rather than cruelty to animals,” Humane Society Executive Vice President Michael Markarian said in a statement. “Year after year, the state Legislature has failed to fix the state’s cruelty laws so they apply to all animals, or to provide felony-level penalties for the worst acts of cruelty.”
Mississippi joins only five other states, including Idaho, Arkansas, North Dakota and South Dakota that have no felony animal cruelty laws.
COMMENTSposted by LatashaWillis on 05/10/08 at 11:22 AM
posted by sharon on 05/14/08 at 07:53 AM
This really makes my blood boil. Not only did he try to gas them, but when that didn't work he bashed them in the head. This man is sick. How could anyone do that to a harmless baby animal?
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?s=8251457
posted by ellen on 05/14/08 at 08:20 AM
posted by Lady Havoc on 05/14/08 at 10:26 AM
I have little ducks at my house. If he didn't want them in his yard, he could've brought them to my house.
posted by golden eagle on 05/14/08 at 10:53 AM
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