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.
Read headline and thought Duncan Hunter killed his dog!
“State Environmental Police?”
i’ve never heard of that department.
No. Res ipsa loquitur.
:) and Fred Thompson doesn’t have a hunting license
is that what replaced the old MDC police force (Metropolitan District Commission)?
We have idiots here that shoot at blaze orange -”it must be a deer/bear/etc!”
We have idiots that could be one foot away and still shoot -”It must be a deer/bear/etc!”
And we have idiots who hunt within 500 yards of farms and residences, blasting farm animals and pets because, you guessed it, -”It must be a deer/bear/etc!”
Gives hunters a bad name, and makes some people want to hunt the L.L. Bean ‘hunters’ instead.
(L.L. Bean ‘hunter’: someone who buys their gear out of L.L. Bean and thinks that this makes them super uber elite hunters.)
I bet it was a stray shot. Once in Montana someone shot my red pickup by mistake.
Sounds like she was with the dog when it was shot so mistaking it for a deer wouldn’t be a viable excuse.
In many states, it is legal to shoot dogs running loose if they are suspected of chasing deer. This dog should have been on a leash, especially during winter when deer are at the mercy of the weather.
Dog packs will form up and run a deer to near death in deep snow but since they lack the killer instinct, they don’t know how to quickly dispatch the deer so it suffers for hours.
I am an avid hunter. I never shoot unless I know what I am shooting at. That hunter gives all hunters a bad rap, also I am smart enough to know not to walk around in a national forest or state park during an open hunting season.
Hunter safety rule: KNOW your target and what is beyond your target.
Aside from that, it is plain stupid to be out in the woods when the deer hunters are out there.
I live in the country. We have a goat farmer who loses goats almost every year. We’ve had local cows shot. And cement yard deer ornaments. I don’t hunt but know a hunter. He says the problem is hunters shoot without a clear view of what they’re shooting at. Sounds right to me.
If this idiot shot a dog, because he thought it was a deer, then he needs to have his rights taken away. Because he is too dumb to be allowed to be free. Like the idiots who shot cattle and said they thought they were deer.
I HATE DEER HUNTERS !
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’d suggest just avoiding the woods. Too many idiots with rifles out there - I won’t call them hunters because a real hunter knows what he’s shooting at, and doesn’t acidentally shoot cows, horses, dogs, etc.
Well, we know it wasn’t Fred Thompson........
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