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The 36-year-old hunter who bragged about killing and skinning a husky pup pleads no contest to animal cruelty and receives a six-month deferred sentence
- Amber Rose Barnes, 36, of Martin City, Montana, received a six-month deferred sentence.
- As part of your punishment, you must attend a hunting safety class and you will not be able to use your hunting rifle during this period of time.
- In September, she bragged about killing and skinning the dog, which she claimed was a small wolf, and posted it on her social media.
A female hunter, who bragged about killing and skinning a husky, has spoken out against animal cruelty.
Amber Rose Barnes, 36, of Martin City, Montana, received a six-month deferred sentence. As part of her punishment, she must attend a hunting safety class and will not be able to use her hunting rifle during this period of time.
She was charged in October after bragging about the murder in September on Facebook, where she claimed to have brought down a small wolf.
Barnes was trolled by the thousands at the time when people immediately noticed that the animal she had killed was a Siberian husky puppy.
Amber Rose Barnes, 36, of Martin City, Montana, received a six-month deferred sentence on animal cruelty charges. As part of her punishment, she must attend a hunting safety class and will not be able to use her hunting rifle during this period of time.
She was charged in October after bragging about the murder in September on Facebook, where she claimed to have brought down a small wolf.
During the hearing, she defended her actions.
“During this time safety was my top priority, this animal was growling, howling and coming at me like it was going to eat me.”
‘Yeah, I made a mistake… anyway, yeah, I would have shot him anyway because he was aggressive and coming right at me!’ she said.
Barnes avoided being charged with a hunting violation, because “the incident did not involve an animal under agency jurisdiction,” the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks confirmed.
Barnes sparked an online furor when she posted a series of graphic images of herself with the lifeless puppy online.
Along with a collage of five shots of her with the dead dog, he wrote: “So this morning I set out for a solo predator hunt of an autumnal black bear, however I had the opportunity to take another predatory wolf cub. 2022 It was a great feeling.” to text my man and tell him I just smoked a wolf pup #firstworld #onelesspredatorMT.’
Barnes had ventured into Flathead National Forest at Doris Creek, sixty miles south of Glacier National Park that morning in search of a black bear when he came across what he believed to be a wolf.
Barnes (pictured with her boyfriend) sparked fury online when she posted a series of graphic images of herself with the lifeless pup online.
In an especially gruesome image, Barnes posed with the Husky sprawled on his flatbed truck as he smiles, hitting the dog’s lifeless head and clutching his rifle.
Even once his mistake was identified, Barnes defended his actions, telling his Facebook audience that he would kill the dog again.
Barnes’ partner, Frank Tallent, also jumped to her defense at the time when the online mob descended on her and dubbed her the ‘Montana Butcher’.
“Mistakes are a big problem,” he wrote.
‘Yeah, my girlfriend was out hunting and she shot a fucking dog that got dumped in the woods.’
The deceased pup turned out to be one of nearly a dozen Husky pups that had been abandoned in the woods.
Barnes had a valid hunting license when the incident occurred.
Many of the pups had parvovirus, an often fatal disease for dogs.
After the shooting, authorities worked to determine if Barnes had a license to hunt wolves, which he said he did.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks later confirmed to Fox News that Barnes had purchased the appropriate license.
In Montana, wolf hunting is legal with a license. An individual can legally kill or trap 20 wolves per season.