| Canned hunting is effectively trophy hunting. A | | | | involving canned hunting. Through the years, the |
| canned hunt is a type of hunt that involves the | | | | controversy and criticism of canned hunting has |
| hunter being essentially promised a kill by a hunting | | | | reached a fever pitch. Rightly so, as the issue with |
| agency or governing body. The activity basically | | | | canned hunting is one more directed towards animal |
| takes place on the grounds that the host of the | | | | cruelty than any other type of hunt. The animal is |
| hunt, whether a hunting agency or private party, | | | | captured and "canned", giving it no original chance for |
| captures an animal and releases it in a generally | | | | survival. This type of simplistic approach to hunting is |
| enclosed area to be hunted by the hunter. The | | | | often polarizing to many within the hunting |
| enclosed area tends to be a small fenced in area so | | | | community, some of which appreciate the delicate |
| that the kill comes rather easily to the hunter. | | | | balance of nature in its own right. |
| Naturally, there have been all sorts of ethical issues | | | | |