UPDATE: DA Dismisses Pigeon Shoot Citations
SHARK responds to Heckler's decision.
June 18, 2012
Bensalem Patch
Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler has decided not to prosecute citations against a local gun club regarding its live pigeon shoots.
Johnna Seeton, a court-appointed Humane Society officer, filed animal cruelty citations against the Philadelphia Gun Club. The club holds the shoots at its property at State and Street roads in Bensalem.
The citations alleged five counts of cruelty to animals during its pigeon shoots on March 17 and 31. They said that the club failed to retrieve and kill five pigeons that had been wounded during the shoots and were found in the Delaware River near the club.
