Legal in at least 19 states, "penning" involves sending packs of domestic dogs into a fenced enclosure to chase to exhaustion and often tear apart a captive coyote or fox. Prior to release into the enclosures, wild coyotes and foxes are trapped in the wild with leghold traps, crammed into cages too small for movement, and shipped -- often hundreds of miles -- with little or no access to food or water. They're then sold into penning facilities where pen operators make money by charging a fee to predator hunters who bring their hounds to train on "live bait" . . .
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