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.
For me it was rabbit hunting a few years ago. Some jackass was shooting a semi-auto rifle in his back yard at a target set up in a field with no burm or back stop. We were in the wooded area on the other side of the field and his rifle slugs were whizzing thru the branches around us.
Heck, you can't even use rifles to deer hunt in southern Michigan, only shotgun slugs or black powder.........
Depends on how badly one wants to see a deer.
“CAN WE REMEBER a guy in the woods breaking the law with a firearm is no more a hunter than a guy with a fast car on the FREEWAY is a race car driver..........!!!”
Call them what you want.
Where I lived, I never met a respectable dear hunter..
Bird hunters, yes..I know many.
There were too brothers out of Memphis, the Todd brothers.
They not only poached on my property, but charged others a fee to also poach. They had a little piece of scrub property
a few miles south of me, but they decided the entire county
was their own private club....Real scum.
I dunno about your state, but whenever I see a road crew up ahead, there is usually only one or two guys actually doing something appearing like “work” and at least ten standing around watching..........
“Have you ever tried having them arrested for trespass? If so have the authorities ever responded?”
Razor wire at neck height is a good alternative.
Pulled that entire post out of your ass didn’t you?
Sad even for a n00bie.
There is a BIG difference between a hunter and a POACHER. I am a hunter. Along with my friends, we have helped supply food for the poor through “hunters for the hungry”, we have donated time and money to help the disabled fulfill dreams of hunting deer, turkey, wild boar etc. We have also raised enough funds to buy the State of Tennessee three robotic deer decoys to aid in capturing road poachers.
The media and many people call anyone who wears camo and commits a crime a ‘hunter”.
If the person in this story shot a dog by mistake, they were no hunter, they were just an idiot.
“Razor wire at neck height is a good alternative.”
Hope you’re joking because setting traps that kill or injure people indiscriminately are illegal and disgusting. I had a friend almost die from this crap on public land.
No.
If you could possibly mistake a four-year-old Labrador Retriever for a deer, you should never, ever, go hunting.
Normal circumstance for someone walking their dog is to have it on a leash b/c of leash laws. If it wasn’t, that would be relevant and probably reported. You (psychically?) determined otherwise based on what? Nothing. Your assumption is like reading about a home invasion with no mention of drugs and saying, “Well, they shouldn’t have been drug dealers.” In other words, you made a completely groundless assumption that may be true, but has no basis in the facts as stated.
Our farm was posted and hunters still cut or knocked down fences to get on our property. One man was shot while chopping wood behind his barn. My mother wouldn't let us go into the woods during deer season, even to chase stray livestock.
Most of the problems were from city folks who came from out near Boston. They would drive all the way out to the Berkshires once a year to hunt. They didn't know where the houses were and couldn't tell a pony from whitetail.
Where’d you get the poacher idea from.
The article said it is legal to hunt deer there, and the guy in question stated that he didn’t shoot the dog. This woman just suspects him, but she didn’t see him do it.
I guess it’s impossible for someone else to have actually shot the dog?
I'd say Orvis, or Filson. L.L. Bean is just a step over Cabela's.
Duncan Hunter killed his dog?
“That stinks. Nov. 26 to Dec. 8 - avoid woods or wear orange? I’ve never hunted - wanna try it. Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?”
Moron hunter. He didn’t identify his target.
There’s a crew here that has a lady in the crew.
You guessed it, she was filling the big car swallowing pothole, the rest of the crew were supervising.
Hunters in my area worth their salt know better than the guy of this article.
Of course, there’s the guys who hunt in the “No hunting safety zone” because “The deer hide there.”
(Where do they think the hikers are during hunting season?)
“Hope you’re joking because setting traps that kill or injure people indiscriminately are illegal and disgusting.”
Well I was mostly joking, but if I was having problems with tresspassers a little neck-high fishing line might discourage them.
I used to walk my dog in the large state park by my house during hunting season(with a orange vest on both of us). They have literally miles of hiking/horse trails etc
The park years ago really enforced the 600 foot boundry between the hunting areas and the walking trails, horse trails etc. With the new park ranger he does not care and doe snot enforce it. Last year I saw a hunter firing within 50 feet of the trail and other hikers have mentioned they have seen the same thing.
Needless to stay I don’t go there anymore until after March 1st.
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