Well this morning I was sitting on my deer stand on private property close to the property line that is bordered by a timber co land that is a deer lease. About 30 min after daylight I heard a few dogs bayed, not far across the property line. Since we have so many hogs in this area I figured they had bayed a hog, and were doing a fine job of it, I was enjoying the bay. Then I got worried that if the hunters on that property hear this they might shoot the dogs. Well after about 15 minutes of this the shots rang out and wounded dogs started yelping and screaming, and then it went quiet. This afternoon at camp, a friend came driving up that had been to visit a friend at the deer lease. He jumped out and said he had the scoop, a hunter had wounded a deer yesterday evening and the dogs had found it and bayed it this morning. I asked him what they said the dogs looked like, they said it was a cur dog and 3 blue healers. Well the owners of this property that I hunt on live a mile away, the cur dog belongs to one of the owners and the healers belong to another property owner. I don't understand why they didn't shoot the deer to put it out of its mysery and pet the dogs for finding and baying this deer. Why did they have to shoot the dogs and the deer? Would somebody please tell me where this dog killing mentallity has come from. These weren't high priced hunting dogs, they were good pets and not very good cow dogs. Just country dogs that live and roam where they want to mostly on private property because this family owns so much land. They just happen to get off the land a little today and got killed by guys that don't own crap, they lease a little land to deer hunt on and think they have control over everything that happens on it. Where does this dog killing mentality come from, why do they think a dog is going to ruin their hunting? 20 years ago it was not like this, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I have treed coons with dogs barking and going nuts and watched deer laying 50 yards away watching the whole thing, I have hog hunted with dogs and watched deer stand there and watch us as we walk by with the dogs running a hog. I have watched deer being run by dogs, the deer does not leave the country running like Emmit Smith, the deer will just stay as far ahead of the dog as he has to, at any time the deer could run off and leave the dogs standing there wondering where it went. I have heard deer hunters say they kill every dog they see on thier lease, WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
We have talked to the local Game Warden he said it is a Felony in Texas to kill a dog. The land owner is going to see if he can make and example out of these deer hunters.


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Man, you should have been here yesterday.