WARNING: Spanish dump, abandon and kill (hang) 60,000 - 80,000 hunting dogs - EVERY single year. WTF.

What is wrong with the Spanish? Why are there too many ignorant, insensitive hunters in that developed and supposedly civilised European country? They hunt with dogs and when the hunting season is over, they kill the dogs! What about that for civilised behavior? More like Medieval behavior. The behavior of a backward race of humans who can't - just can't - believe that animals are sentient creatures. 

You could not hang a 2-year-old dog that has worked for you to death which will be slow and agonising unless you are a brutal shit of a person.

The Spanish almost extirpated the Iberian lynx by shooting all the rabbits which sustained this rare wild cat. It took legislation to prevent the blood thirsty Spanish from shooting them. The Iberian lynx population has increased thankfully. But it would not have happened unless they were forced to stop shooting rabbits for fun with a complete disregard for the pain they caused.

Yes, the word IGNORANT comes to mind. The tweet below is doubly shocking really as it tells me that the Spanish government accept this mass animal cruelty of domestic dogs - supposedly man's best friend. Well, for the hunting dogs in Spain, humans are not their best friend. They are an enemy to avoid.

Why do they accept this? They must accept it as it happens every year. Why does the European Union (EU) accept this? Why isn't the EU Commission doing something about this? They need to apply a bit of pressure in the Spanish government to change their ignorant ways.

The tweet says:

At the end of each hunting season in February, it is estimated that between 60,000 and 80,000 Spanish hunting dogs (Podencos as well as Galgos, the Spanish Greyhound) are dumped, abandoned or killed, considered too old or too slow for the next season. 60,000 - 80,000 dogs - EVERY single year!! By tradition, the dogs are hanged by the neck their feet barely touching the ground, takes many days to die.

And here is the photo that I have warned you about.

WARNING: Spanish dump, abandon and kill (hang) 60,000 - 80,000 hunting dogs - EVERY single year. WTF. Image: Twitter.