We've filmed loads grouse days for private clients last season so I'll see if I can get one of our editors to pull a few clips together for RU-vid. Next up is probably some promotional work with gun manufacturers or a shoot day profile. Enjoy.
You see all those hunting dogs. At the end of each hunting season, most of the older dogs (3 years old and older) are no longer needed. So they are disposed. The lucky ones get shot by their handlers. The unlucky ones get thrown away at a random location and starves to death. These dogs can't survive on their own in the wild and Spain doesn't really have predators that can prey on these dogs. If a dog was injured, the owners won't spend a dime on their recovery. Either they get shot or thrown in a dumpster and dies a slow agonizing death. This norm is really ingrained in the Spanish hunting culture that every time the Spanish government passes law about animal rights, the hunting dogs are always explicitly excluded from it. I'm no vegan and I also do think hunting overpopulated and invasive species is okay, but to treat the hunting dogs like that is just too much for me to take. I won't ever participate in any hunt there in Spain, ever.
