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.
“Once in Montana someone shot my red pickup by mistake.”
How do you know it was a mistake? I once had a guy shoot at me when I was sitting in a treestand. I returned fire but he got away damn it.
Can add that to the definition, yes.
“When I had a farm in Tennessee, I was always plagued by redneck lowlifes out of Memphis that would poach on my property.
There style is to shoot anything that moves and ask questions later.”
I’ve still got some hunting property outside of Nashville. I’ve actually caught guys in treestands on my property and one even had the gall to ask me what I was doing on his property.
Did Squantos get in trouble?
Amen.
Oh.
My.
GOD!!!!
It might also take their head off. That happened in Sparta NJ. A brat kid rode his unmufflered dirt bike up and down a dirt path at all hours. So someone got the bright idea and strung piano wire between 2 trees. It removed the kids head. Not a bright idea.
“Well I was mostly joking, but if I was having problems with tresspassers a little neck-high fishing line might discourage them.”
Might also prompt them to take a shot at your house in anger. A no hunting sign is a start. A ‘trespassers will be shot’ sign might work too. Growing up people that hunted on other peoples land without permission risked getting a warning shot across their head and a few had extra ventilation holes added to their vehicles.
Of course we can’t talk to people though. /sarc
Misread that line. It’s early. I thought it said “illegal”.
And it could have been possible for somebody else to have shot the dog, but I know that had I been that hunter, I’d of at least offered some sort of help, not just wandered off.
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It wouldn't surprise me if that's our problem here. I was listening to WTKK a few years ago, and someone called in and mentioned our town as a great place to hunt. For a few years, we would hear multiple gunshots at daylight all during the season.
I would’ve too, unless the woman was already accusing him of shooting her dog, in that case I would’ve left too.
“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.”
http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_7632225
Appears to be a fair number of versions of the story out there already. Shame the media cannot get it right....
“Might also prompt them to take a shot at your house in anger.”
That would be...a mistake.
“A brat kid rode his unmufflered dirt bike up and down a dirt path at all hours. So someone got the bright idea and strung piano wire between 2 trees. It removed the kids head. Not a bright idea.”
Similiar thing nearly happened to my friend. In a state park on marked marked trails someone had strung barbed wire across the trail. Only reason he didn’t die was he stopped just short of it for a nature call. He was lucky to have stopped. Unlucky in that he failed to identify the plant he was using for toilet paper as poison ivy.
Hunter shoots and kills family dog
Ohhhh, a John Kerry..."Kin ah git me aw huntin' license?"
“That would be...a mistake.”
I was more thinking of the hassle to fix up the walls and soothe the wife. Plus i hate diggin holes.
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