Animal rights activists have been trying for decades to end pigeon shoots – private events during which hunters take aim at live pigeons released from traps. Activists call it barbaric, though judges ...

I thought I was a voice in the wilderness objecting to the live practice shoots at the local sportsman’s clubs in the area, until I read Sunday’s Morning Call article, titled “Hundreds plan to protest ...

Legislators in the Pennsylvania Senate have introduced a bill that would end live pigeon shoots in the state. Senate Bill 715 would make it a summary offense to organize, operate or conduct trap ...

While the Fred Coleman Memorial Labor Day Pigeon Shoot has ceased in Hegins, other live bird shoots continue in Pennsylvania. Animal advocate Heidi Prescott, with the Humane Society of the United ...

Bills to prohibit live-animal trap and block shoots stalled in previous sessions of the General Assembly, until finally breaking through with the Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday. Prescott said she's ...

A Brooklyn pigeon purveyor acted as a conduit for delivering Big Apple birds to their doom as live targets in shooting contests, according to an animal-rights group. The Humane Society of the United ...

Perhaps these events, in which live animals are used as living targets in so-called sporting matches, occur elsewhere in the shadows of American life. But there is no question that Pennsylvania reigns ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A mandate for “humane” pigeon trappings could be coming to Clark County, after Animal Control leaders voiced concerns over cages left in the heat for days. The Southern Nevada ...

The umpteenth effort to ban pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania has cleared a state Senate panel. Animal rights activists have been trying for decades to end pigeon shoots – private events during which ...