dogs running the woods.
10-31-2007, 06:57 AM
#42
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 153
RE: dogs running the woods.
I agree with contacting your local animal control for help. Whether they are wild or not I dont think its a good idea to shoot the dogs. Where I live in SD we have had a pack of wild dogs in an area now for a few years. An older gentleman who lives out in that area took a shot with a high powered rifle at what he thought was one of these wild dogs out in a field. He actually ended up killing the neighbors 10yr old sons 8 month old puppy. I wanna see someone carry a dead dog back to a 1oyr old and tell him you shot it.
Contact your animal control first. Dont shoot the dog
Contact your animal control first. Dont shoot the dog
10-31-2007, 10:46 AM
#45
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 4,127
RE: dogs running the woods.
I remember a thread from one of the other hunting forums about three years ago that got into this issue . . . . I think a guy and his wife were fishing in a National Park and let their lab run around off the leash. He got down around the bend where they couldn't see him. Then they heard a rifle shot. Park Rangers saw the dog harassing wildlife and put him down. Then they gave the owners a ticket for dog off leash. This thread got quite a bit of mileage . . . .
10-31-2007, 12:15 PM
#46
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NW FLORIDA
Posts: 230
RE: dogs running the woods.
been reading this forum for a long time and never felt the need to post. swamp rooster, kid, and stevencm yall are no better than a someone that steals treestands or shoots deer at night.ethics don't bend and you can't follow or break laws as you see fit. there are ways to stop it. it just takes more effort to do it the right way, but most things do................tony
10-31-2007, 06:05 PM
#47
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 98
RE: dogs running the woods.
I disagree. If you make the effort to notify the owner that their dogs are running all over your land that you hunt, then you have every right to shoot the dog. That dog is probably killing other game(young rabbits and turkeys) thoughout the spring and summer, and that is not part of the natural habitat. Where I live, we just recently have had turkey populations which are huntable, and I will not let wild dogs, with or without a collar, inturupt the progress we have made. Dogs like that are no different than looose cats which have destroyed populations of native birds in several states. I do believe states are leaning towards legalizing the killing of wild cats, so why no dogs.
10-31-2007, 06:13 PM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 8,167
RE: dogs running the woods.
ORIGINAL: stevencm
I disagree. If you make the effort to notify the owner that their dogs are running all over your land that you hunt, then you have every right to shoot the dog.
I disagree. If you make the effort to notify the owner that their dogs are running all over your land that you hunt, then you have every right to shoot the dog.
Both are illegal and both are wrong. So are you.[:'(]
10-31-2007, 06:46 PM
#49
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: jefferson county--- eastern OHIO
Posts: 379
RE: dogs running the woods.
well idk about were u live but around here ppl don't tolerate taht them dogs will go missing 
but if tehy are chasinng deer keep an eye on kids or u'r dogs i ahd a beagal killed by wild dogs. if it were me i'd c how themdogs like a 80 grain .243 bullet. hit 1 n bet teh other leaves n if any-1 says anything tell tehm lease laws n if tehy don't ahve a collar tehn u mistaked them for coyotes or that they were wild!!!!!1 thats just me
but if tehy are chasinng deer keep an eye on kids or u'r dogs i ahd a beagal killed by wild dogs. if it were me i'd c how themdogs like a 80 grain .243 bullet. hit 1 n bet teh other leaves n if any-1 says anything tell tehm lease laws n if tehy don't ahve a collar tehn u mistaked them for coyotes or that they were wild!!!!!1 thats just me
10-31-2007, 07:00 PM
#50
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 8,167
RE: dogs running the woods.
ORIGINAL: BUCKEYEhunter140
well idk about were u live but around here ppl don't tolerate taht them dogs will go missing but if tehy are chasinng deer keep an eye on kids or u'r dogs i ahd a beagal killed by wild dogs. if it were me i'd c how themdogs like a 80 grain .243 bullet. hit 1 n bet teh other leaves n if any-1 says anything tell tehm lease laws n if tehy don't ahve a collar tehn u mistaked them for coyotes or that they were wild!!!!!1 thats just me
well idk about were u live but around here ppl don't tolerate taht them dogs will go missing
but if tehy are chasinng deer keep an eye on kids or u'r dogs i ahd a beagal killed by wild dogs. if it were me i'd c how themdogs like a 80 grain .243 bullet. hit 1 n bet teh other leaves n if any-1 says anything tell tehm lease laws n if tehy don't ahve a collar tehn u mistaked them for coyotes or that they were wild!!!!!1 thats just me