The Forestry Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Environmental Agri-food and Forestry Police report a suspected animal abuse in a breeding of pheasants. The military of the Investigative Unit of Environmental Agri-food and Forestry Police of Mantova following a check carried out in a pheasant farm in the province with the support of a veterinarian specifically appointed as auxiliary of PG, they reported to the Public Prosecutor of Mantua an alleged animal abuse out of 18 pheasant specimens.
In fact, the personnel who intervened found on the animals a plastic beak cover fixed to everything passing through the nostrils and stuck to them by means of a pin equipped with a barb or a device that prevents it from coming out. This practice is performed without any anesthesia to the animal. The application of the beak cover causes permanent internal perforation of the nostril.
The military then proceeded to seize the specimens and to refer the owner to the Judicial Authority for animal abuse (Article 544 ter of the Criminal Code). The Departments of the Carabinieri Forestale Group of Mantua are also involved on a daily basis in the control and in the repression of offenses against animals, among which those of mistreatment are certainly the most hateful.