Feral dogs and other predators
#1
Feral dogs and other predators
I know my overpopulated foxes will have a huge impact on my poult and turkey poulations this year, but the foxes, skunks, etc. I can trap and take care of that way. My question is:
Would you shoot this?
Would you shoot this?
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
Depends on where I am. If houses are relatively close by then I wouldn't. If I'm further out in the woods a dog without a collar, that doesn't look like a hunting dog, is subject to lead poison.
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
Now a days You can get in some serious trouble for shooting a Dog...if You happen to walk up on a stray/wild Dog and it growls and comes at You then You are justified in shooting it and protecting yourself or if it attacks Your house pets,Kids,Livestock or other Farm Animals etc...You might be better off to use a large live trap/cage and simply haul it to the local Dog Pound,People should be responsible for the Dogs and Pets and not let them run loose on other Peoples Property.I have trail camera pictures of a few Rabbit Beagles and some other stray Dogs running thu our property and I know they are disrupting the natural travel of our Deer...gets aggravating at times to see a stray dog running thru and messing with the Salt/Mineral Lick and several of them have collars so they are simply let loose to run where evere they want!
Last edited by GTOHunter; 04-09-2011 at 06:42 AM.
#6
It is fashionable in SW OK to take unwanted dogs out in the county and turn them loose. Some of the really bad ones survive the hogs and coyotes. They go on to chase deer and attack livestock.
i've found it necessary to kill several feral dogs. Our sheriff encourages the shooting of bothersome feral dogs.
i've found it necessary to kill several feral dogs. Our sheriff encourages the shooting of bothersome feral dogs.
#7
Around my place it'd be shot. Like above, we get a lot of drop offs. A couple dogs can make a lot of dogs in a short amount of time. Biggest group I saw around here was 9 dogs together.
Several ppl in my area go together and decided we were gonna get rid of them all. We all know each other and know which dogs belong and which don't. It worked. If I saw that running stray, it'd be shot.
-Jake
Several ppl in my area go together and decided we were gonna get rid of them all. We all know each other and know which dogs belong and which don't. It worked. If I saw that running stray, it'd be shot.
-Jake