Originally Posted by
DeppedyDogg
This may explain a bit:
Hunting in upstate NY with my brother, mixed hardwoods between tracts of apple orchards. Dogs barking, getting closer. A doe breaks out from a brushline at full lope. Dogs about 50 yards in full pursuit. Glimpses of the doe and pack for the next 5 minutes, more or less. Then no more barking. Brother finds the doe crumpled over 100 yards from the orchard boundary near a trail road. No bullet wounds, no bleeding, dogs gone.
Curious, he opened the doe and found the heart with a tear in the side. Surgeons would call this myocardial infarction. Those dogs ran that doe to her death for sport. Then went home for a warm night with the fam.
This is why I will shoot dogs running deer in my neck of the woods.
Though the dogs may have "ran her to death" this was probably more of weeding out the week. Deer can run pretty fast, faster than a dog and probably longer distances than dogs. The Doe being chased by any other predator woudlve had the same outcome. It wasnt the dogs fault as much as it was the Doe's heart fault. Probably not the best reason to justify shooting dogs.