Cheney's Other Hunting Follies

One of the things that has come out of the Dick Cheney manhunt fiasco is one of the veep's other hunting peculiarities. He likes to participate in canned hunts. A canned hunt is one where pen raised animals, almost always birds, are set out in a usually small area for hunters to wade through. It's basically hunting for lazy people, and Cheney enjoys gorging himself at the trough at these events. From WTAE-TV Pittsburgh:

Monday's [December 5, 2005] hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club places a spotlight on an increasingly popular and deplorable form of hunting, in which birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons. The ethics of these hunts are called into question by rank-and-file sportsmen, who hunt animals in their native habitat and do not shoot confined or pen-raised animals that cannot escape.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney's 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. The party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon.

Canned hunts for lazy people are one thing, but this is just ghoulish. That's an extremely high number of birds for a ten person hunting party. Cheney personally shot over 70 birds himself. Think about that. The daily bag limit here in Ohio is two. Cheney shot more than thirty five times the acceptable limit, although these limits do not count towards canned hunts, which are held on private property.

What else does Cheney do for fun, work in a Tyson slaughterhouse on the weekends?