Summary of Three HSUS Dove Hunting videos/TV commercials
Michigan Votes NO
- On you tube, was used aired on Michigan Television
- 32 seconds long
- Message: to react to a renewed effort to reinstate a dove hunting season
- Propaganda: Politicians won’t take no for an answer, they are pandering to hunters, and they are giving our rights away to 7 unelected bureaucrats.
Dove Shooting: A Grisly Hunt
- On you tube, was used aired on Michigan Television
- 1 minute and 28 seconds long
- Message: There is no reason to hunt doves
- Propaganda: Doves are songbirds, Doves are not edible; doves are not a nuisance; are not overpopulated and do not spread disease. (FYI: mourning doves certainly do spread diseases). Killed for target practice; hunters pull the heads off doves they can retrieve; one hunter captured on film kicking or stepping on a dove; 30% wounding rate.
Dave the Dove in “No Good Reason”
- On you tube, was aired on Michigan Television
- 1 minute and 36 seconds long
- Message: There is no reason to shoot a dove.
- Propaganda: Doves do not make a meal; doves do not tip over trash cans; doves do not cause automobile collisions; doves use bird feeders / hunters will shoot at doves with scoped rifles while they are at backyard bird feeders; Doves are Michigan’s Bird of Piece; tell a friend, donate, learn more.
- The HSUS you tube description of this video: “Uploaded on Oct 4, 2006 There is no good reason to shoot mourning doves and this video proves it! Find out more about the dove hunt”: