British Sporting Art, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. The chapter entitled Otters and Men is important. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. 10 1823. It appears to be more about human behaviour than animal suffering. 36, The third, by Lady Florence Dixie, took the opportunity to publicise the Humanitarian League's work on blood sports. Following its publication, the book received widespread publicity when Williamson was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in June 1928. They might be horrified if you suggested that they wished the otter any harm. 6 39 It is amazing to us that men and women can find pleasure in hunting living creatures for hours, putting them to considerable distress and pain, and then watching their exhausted bodies being torn to pieces by hounds. of compassion, love, gentleness, and universal benevolence, the Humanitarian League clearly set itself apart from other reform oriented bodies. Instead, it tells the reader that the otter is hunted partly because it is tradition to do so; partly because he provides excellent sport, and partly because it is still necessary to regulate his kind.Footnote Observing sea otters and kelp beds on Amchitka both onshore and during scuba dives led Estes to question the links between them. 23. He agrees that the otter lives on fish, but so also do herons and wild duck and pike and kingfishers and cats and men and women. This opposition to the Bill was surprisingly effective. 65. For Johnston the otter was not a special animal, it was one of many beasts, birds, and reptiles which potentially added to the future happiness of the world. In addition to this justification, any suggestion of cruelty is light-heartedly dismissed: It is improbable that most of the people who go otter hunting worry much about the humanities or the natural law of the thing. The following year, the Fur Seal Treaty was signed and although the 48. Griffin, Carl J. 33 An incredibly vile sport: Campaigns against Otter

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