Posted on 06/21/2005 5:34:42 AM PDT by briarjumper
And just why was a $300,000 horse still outside. Excellent judgement all around.
Many Texas Ranchers & Farmers have a policy to shoot any stray dog on sight. Texas Law backs them up.
My property. My horses.
So the dog dies. Too bad.
Horses do not have to be brought in every night.
We leave our horses out at night to eat and graze.
I can tell the difference between a Walker hound and a coyote easily.
I can see both sides of this, the landowner was protecting his investment, but a loss of a champion coon hound is a rough thing too, considering backhoe operators are not exactly known for making high dollar salaries.
I have empathy for the dog owner and for the horse owner, but if that rifle were equipped as the article says, then he should have been able to tell the difference.
Also, if you pick all of the fat off, coon meat is mighty tasty roasted in the oven.
Here in Ohio, if an animal comes on your land and harasses your livestock/kids/etc, you DO have the right to shoot the interloper. (and hubby has)
Would you leave a $300,000 horse out if you had killed 35 coyotes over the preceeding 6 months???
How do you confuse a coondog and a coyote?
I easily see both sides of this. Dogs running wild have no business on someone else's property upsetting livestock. On the other hand, horses are not livestock, but just dogfood on the hoof.
Ping!
Good point.
West Virginia is the same. Dogs chasing livestock or running deer are shot on sight. BTDT.
You don't, unless you're one of those city guys who shoots a cow on a hunt thinking it was a deer.
"I can tell the difference between a Walker hound and a coyote easily"
At night in tall weeds when all you see is a mass and glowing eyes?
I've been to Jessamine county... a lot of my ancestors buried there. It makes the Ozarks look flat, at least the Eastern part.
If he intentionally shot the dog, what was his motive?
Read this:
Versailles Police Officer Nathan Craig wrote in his report that Primiano's AR15 223 rifle was equipped with "a high quality night vision scope."
"Through my observation of the scope, I determined that it would be nearly impossible to mistake the coon dog for a coyote," Craig wrote. "The scope presented a very clear view of the area in question, especially the 50- to 75-yard distance in which the dog was shot."
That would have been the the ultimate mistake to have shot something buy only seeing he eyes.If you are shooting a gun, you have to identify exactly what you shoot. Happens all the time during deer season that someone shot some poor soul because he "thought" it was a deer.
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