I'm going to start this by again saying that running an animal down with a vehicle, be it snowmobile, ATV, UTV, truck, or dirt bike, is not hunting. It doesn't ascribe to any sort of fair chase ethics, it laughs in the face of what hunters hold dear, and is straight-up animal cruelty in my opinion. It's not hunting, plain and simple, and I don't want hunting associated with the wolf-whacking practice.
But all of that is especially the case when the animal in question doesn't immediately die after said person runs it over. It becomes a far worse thing in itself.
And in the case of Wyoming resident Cody Roberts, who made international headlines last year for running over a wolf with his snowmobile, tying up the injured animal, parading it through a local bar for patrons and himself to take pictures with, and then dispatching the animal behind the bar, a grandy jury also agrees that what he did was animal cruelty some 18 months after the incident took place.
