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Hunter shoots and kills family dog
WHDH ^ | 12/6/2007 | whdh

Posted on 12/06/2007 5:45:00 AM PST by jstassis

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed.

Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach.

"I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said.

it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec. 8.

According to Verville, shortly after Smokey was shot a hunter came out of the woods, where it is legal to hunt for deer in State Parks from Nov. 26 to Dec. 8. The man claimed that he did not shoot the dog and left without trying to help the fatally injured canine.

State Environmental Police are investigating the incident.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accident; deer; deerhunt; deerhunter; deerhunting; dog; hunt; hunter; hunting; lowell
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To: jstassis
Deer:

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Dog:

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Big difference!

201 posted on 12/06/2007 8:58:24 AM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: driftdiver

no limit. They are vermin and pests.


202 posted on 12/06/2007 9:02:11 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: jstassis

One of the primary rules when firing a gun is to IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET!!!

If you can’t, you DON’T SHOOT!

Its a shame idiots like this one give the majority of good hunters a black eye in the anti-gun, anti-media press.

My sympathies for the owner of this fine dog and for the dog.

I hope someday this idiot hunter runs into another idiot hunter with his same lack of common sense - in very think brush.


203 posted on 12/06/2007 9:03:08 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: jstassis

The debate here is over “hunters” vs “shooters”

Think about it........Jeff


204 posted on 12/06/2007 9:10:59 AM PST by Jeffrey_D. (Some people are alive simply because it's illegal to shoot them !!!!)
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To: HD1200
They are not shooting someone’s pet; they are shooting an animal running loose and endangering wildlife and human beings. If that describes your pet; it isn’t a pet....

You deduced all that from these people walking their dog on state forest land?

What indication did you see in that article that the dog was endangering wildlife or human beings?

205 posted on 12/06/2007 9:13:16 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic
What indication did you see in that article that the dog was endangering wildlife or human beings?

***************

What indication did you see that the distinction would have made a difference to him?

206 posted on 12/06/2007 9:39:49 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Darksheare
What kind of hunter doesn’t positively ID what he’s shooting?

Your statement has nothing to do with anything I posted.

207 posted on 12/06/2007 10:11:39 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: org.whodat

What kind of hunter doesn’t positively ID his target.


208 posted on 12/06/2007 10:12:42 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: American_Centurion

I am well versed on the 500 ft. rule. I have had my siding replaced TWICE due to being hit. Also, a broken window, dishes (kitchen cabinets on backside of house which faces the hillside the shots came from). My neighbors on both sides have also been hit. My neighbor’s above ground pool took a couple of shells and two other houses (downhill) rec’d water damage. First time (12 yrs ago) no arrests. Second time (8 or 9 yrs ago) three ‘hunters’ got nabbed... on a residential property (no permission given). Our insurer went after their insurers. This all happened in a suburban neigborhood. My 2 claims were over $16,000 alone. My neighbor’s and I have flood lights back there now (some have said runway lights) to make the houses visible at all times (these incidents happened at dawn). We are incredibly lucky that no one has been shot.


209 posted on 12/06/2007 12:07:48 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: Darksheare

“Gives hunters a bad name”

Agree with all you say. However, what would be wrong folks practicing some common sense? Such as, not walking their dog, especially allowing it to run loose, in areas where deer hunting is going on? Besides, my poop detector is pinging on this incident - it is just possible that this person walking their dog may well have been one of those environmental whacko types who was out in the woods attempting to spook the deer so that the hunters would not be successful in their attempts to take deer....


210 posted on 12/06/2007 12:34:59 PM PST by snoringbear (')
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To: jstassis

Another idiot hunter shooting at what he could barely see, hunting in state parks is also a very stupid idea.


211 posted on 12/06/2007 12:36:02 PM PST by Scythian
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

I woulda replaced the siding with brick after the first incident.


212 posted on 12/06/2007 12:46:18 PM PST by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: HD1200

What is your definition of endangering wildlife? Aren’t hunters doing just that? Is it legal to shoot a crow? Have you ever?


213 posted on 12/06/2007 12:57:14 PM PST by Fawn (http://www.brightlion.com/InHope/InHope_en.aspx)
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To: American_Centurion

Finances did not permit brick or just moving (I was so rattled I just wanted to sell.) Insurance paid to replace the siding. Our agent said his office always has open claims. We have been lucky...nothing close by here in a few years...area is even more built up. The backyard lighting has helped alot. Our neighborhood sits on a downward slope...so hunters would go up on the ridge and shoot at the deer below.


214 posted on 12/06/2007 1:19:22 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: CholeraJoe

You’re really Janet Reno? Or Fred Thompson.


215 posted on 12/06/2007 1:20:57 PM PST by Lx ((Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.))
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To: jstassis

Dunno. I sometimes hear of some guy from back east bagging a cow, thinking he was shooting at an elk.


216 posted on 12/06/2007 1:21:54 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Darksheare
There was an idiot up north, I think New Hampshire or close, who shot a guys wife in the back yard of their property because he thought the white gloves she was wearing was a deer tail (in the up "flag" position of fleeing). I believe he did get some jail time.

People that stupid have to make you just cringe...

217 posted on 12/06/2007 1:35:50 PM PST by Axenolith (Subduction leads to Orogeny...)
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To: snoringbear
my poop detector is pinging on this incident

"I feel so terrible," Verville said. "I feel ignorant in a way, because I didn't know that hunting was allowed in the forest. I used to take Smokey out there all the time. I take him off his leash and let him run around, and I walk the paths. I call him and he comes right back."

What do you bet there is a leash law where this happened?

218 posted on 12/06/2007 3:26:04 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Fawn

“What is your definition of endangering wildlife? Aren’t hunters doing just that? Is it legal to shoot a crow? Have you ever?”

LOL! Yup, us nasty old hunters are just a big time death threat to the wildlife out there. Forget the fact our license fees, donations, and CARE mean the wildlife still have homes.

Yes I have blasted crows; especially when Farmers complain they are taking their crops and BEG hunters to take some out.


219 posted on 12/06/2007 4:13:29 PM PST by HD1200
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To: Eaker; Tijeras_Slim; humblegunner

Now ya’ll are funny !........very good !

Makes me hungry for Korean Cuisine for lunch tomorrow.....!!!

My house girl Sum Yung Moon can cook dog fajitas !

We dine at noon tomorrow !

Woof Buuuuurrrrrrrrp !


220 posted on 12/06/2007 8:35:20 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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