Some Australian Survivor followers have expressed their outrage after one of many members of this season’s “Heroes” tribe has been uncovered as a trophy hunter.
And Paige Donald has hit again at her critics in a blistering video assertion in a single day, telling those that’ve slammed her searching to get again “in their f**king place.”
Donald works in nation Queensland mustering cattle – however, as her controversial departing tribemate (and outspoken animal activist) Rogue Rubin identified on social media, she’s additionally a eager hunter.
Paige’s public Instagram account is stuffed with dozens of graphic images and movies of her searching varied animals.
Essentially the most closely featured are wild pigs, however she has additionally posted graphic imagery of useless kangaroos, dingoes, and even a big antelope and a warthog she killed whereas on a searching journey to Africa.
She has shared quite a few violent movies exhibiting her controversial methodology for pig searching, utilizing a pack of canines to nook and kill the animal. In a number of movies she could be seen and heard laughing and cheering as her canines tear the distressed animal to items.
RSPCA Australia describes using canines to hunt feral pigs as posing “significant welfare risks to both the pig being hunted and the dogs involved”.
“Hunting of pigs with dogs is inherently cruel and unnecessary,” states the RSPCA. “Chased pigs will experience fear, panic and distress, and for those that are killed by sticking, death will be painful and prolonged.”
In different posts, Paige shares ugly images of a number of useless dingoes, killed in a single evening:
And one other with a dismembered pink kangaroo:
Because the posts got here to gentle, some Australian Survivor followers took to social media to specific their disgust at her placement on the “Heroes” tribe:
Paige has immediately addressed the uproar, releasing a prolonged video assertion through her Instagram tales wherein she thanked Rogue “for all the new followers” and stated she needed to “put people in their f**king place.”
“Yes, I hunt. I live in a world with animals that are sick and need to be shot,” she stated, saying she’s seen first hand the injury feral pigs and dingos have carried out to her livestock.
“I get rewarded with a bounty for each dingo that I get… You’re lucky I have a thick skin. The amount of death threats and disgusting messages I’ve gotten all over my social media is disgusting.”
She additionally clarified that her African searching journey occurred virtually 10 years in the past, when she was 17 – “and you can be damn sure I’ll be going back one day,” she stated.
“The money you spend on the animal you’re shooting goes back into the animal and keeping them safe,” she insisted. “There’s so much to it that you don’t know.”
She additionally revealed that she beforehand labored as a veterinary nurse and liked saving animals’ lives.
Paige’s social media presence could go some solution to explaining she and Rogue’s obvious dislike for one another earlier than Rogue was voted out of the Heroes tribe throughout Sunday’s episode.
Railing in opposition to her tribe, Rogue complained that solely a handful of her tribemates – these like a lifesaver and rescue pilot, whose job is to avoid wasting lives – may really be thought-about heroes.
She then requested the remainder of the tribe to vote her out, saying she didn’t slot in with the group and needed her Survivor expertise to be over.
It got here after Rogue courted controversy from the very first episode of this season, seen on digicam telling African-American tribemate Nina Twine that she was “more African-American” than her due to her personal ties to each the US and South Africa. Rogue later admitted she was “deeply humiliated” by her behaviour when she watched the footage again.
Australian Survivor continues 7.30pm tonight on Ten
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