Posted on 06/06/2006 9:19:05 AM PDT by tgusa
GRANGEVILLE — Hello. My name is Scott Richards. I have lived in Grangeville for the last 17 years. I have enjoyed training my hunting dogs for the past 34 years.
To do this it takes a great deal of love for your dogs and for the great outdoors. I have always prided myself in the manner of which I train my dogs and take care of them. When I choose a new pup, he or she spends the first 6 months in my house. He or she is loved and a bond is there forever. I do not believe there are bad dogs, just inexperienced owners. I have spent the last four years trying to introduce this sport to as many young people as I can. My photo albums are full of pictures with children sitting under a tree with the dogs, telling them they did a good job.
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Safety first. This author seems a bit...
Scary article. I read about the man killed by wolves in Canada in Field and Stream or Outdoor Life. I don't understand why the Feds want to introduce a deadly predator or provide its protection when it resides close to humans.
When in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, or virtually anywhere else in the west, I carry my rifle and always have my dog with me. She will sense a wild animal well before I do, and particularly in the case of a cat or bear, they will normally go the other way. The gun is there if they don't.
Wolves tend to really dislike domesticated dogs, but they too will generally go the other way if a man and a dog are present together. But like with the cats and bears, the rifle is there in case they do not.
Just remember...Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up!
Great advice - heard that first from my bear hunting guide in Trout Creek, Montana in case I had to shoot a grizzly.
Never go into the woods without it.
I saw one of these standing in the median off I-95 in South Carolina. It was watching traffic go by, don't know if it tried to cross the interstate or not.
Nice to know that the whackos have at least relented to the ranchers. If people or dogs get killed, that is just plain tough.
I feel sorry that he lost his dogs but, he and his dogs were hunting and so were the wolves.
Wolves are smart, social, and very strong. One wolf alone perhaps a man can fight barehanded, but a pack of three or more would require some kind of weapon. At least a good club.
He needs to bring along three or four Great Danes with him the next time, or Mastiffs, or any of the big-boned, powerful fighting dogs; and don't forget the gun.
In my experience wolves are very curious and don't always run away as most animals will. They tend to scamper for a ways and watch you. It can be pretty spooky and is much more comfortable if you are carrying a gun!!
The guy sounds like a puss. If wolves killed my dog like that it would be wolf hunting time, law or not.
Are you sure that it was a wolf and not a coyote?
Would guess you saw a coyote, not a timber wolf. I've seen coyotes in the swamps of South Carolina myself.
Sad story,i'll be thinking about this all day.I don't know the game laws in Idaho,but in Fl if a gator(or any animal) attacks a human it's hunted down and killed asap.The part of this article that is especially disturbing is that these wolves frequent areas populated by humans.What if they're hungry and they run across a child?
.......which is why you shoot, shovel and shut up.
Sad story.
I really wish those idiots with that type of view could go live out west for a couple of years. Bet ya within 6 months, they'd purchase a firearm and they'd have a completely different point of view.
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