Opinion No. Oag 2-91, (1991)

CARROLL D. BESADNY, Secretary Department of Natural Resources

You have asked for an opinion on whether the shining1 prohibition contained in section 29.245, Stats., applies to game farms. Then Attorney General Bronson LaFollette addressed this question in an opinion issued in 1983, and indicated then that animals located on game farms were considered "unprotected animals" and therefore fell within the exception to the shining proscription. 72 Op. Att'y Gen. 43, 45 (1983). According to that opinion, the shining of unprotected animals (as well as raccoons and foxes) was permitted, provided the…