Once you put any animal behind a fence, it'slivestock, just like a pig or cow. IMO, DNR has no business regulating livestock operations. Since we are talking about whitetails, the appropriate Ag. Agency does need to make sure that condtions in these pens does not lead to diseases that could transmit to wild animals.

I don't condone canned shooting operations. But let's get something straight, these are not hunting operations, because no hunting goes on. Hunting is the fair chase pursuit of game. In a canned operation, there is no fair chase, and also no game. Only the pursuit of penned livestock. If I pay someone to let me sneak behind the barn and shoot his horse, did I hunt his horse?

This is why the application of hunting ethics is completely out of place. How can you apply hunting ethics to a non-hunting activity? I know folks get emotional about some moron shooting a deer ina pen. I don't, not any more than if they were doing the same thing with a pig. I'd support any rule that forbids these places from using the term hunting in their names or ads.

Seems to me too many folks spend their time minding other people's business. If there is a market for these things, it's no concern of mine.