In Popular Culture
- The title song from the album Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth, is about canned hunting.
- The 2004 book Lord of the Kill by Theodore Taylor, follows the story of young Benjamin Jepson, whose father is an animal rights activist. The book is critical of the so-called "shooting facilities" of the United Sportsmen, and canned hunting generally.
- Carl Hiaasen's novel Sick Puppy begins and ends with canned hunts of imported African rhinos, which are a favorite activity of the book's antagonist, corrupt lobbyist Palmer Stoat.
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