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12-04-2002 | 01:46 PM

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TxCowboy

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RE: Deer hunting dog killers

Bow Hunter, excellent link!!! Thank you!

Lets take a look at a couple quotes from that piece.

Here is what Tonya Sharp the district wildlife manager for Teller County said:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quotequote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Sharp said that only after all efforts to contact a dog owner have failed will the dog will be shot and killed. “I hate to do it, I love dogs,” she said. “I issue a citation to the owner first.”
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WOW! Am I reading that right? A Colorado Div. of Wildlife district mangager shoots dogs because they chase deer? I guess they are unethical too and just don't have compassion for people's pets?

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> “Years ago, one winter we had two dogs kill 12 elk in one day,” Eyre said. “This is indicative of what happens when dogs chase wildlife.”
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What? I thought ya'll said dogs where just doing what dogs do and nothing but my day of hunting was ruined? Looks like I was right to say that dogs do kill deer.

If this issue is big enough for the Colorado Wildlife Div. to put an article like this on their website and state that they will shoot dogs, then I think I can be justified in doing the same. Especially since Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. isn't doing anything to help us like Colorado is.

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