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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.


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KEYWORDS: accident; deer; deerhunt; deerhunter; deerhunting; dog; hunt; hunter; hunting; lowell
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To: Tatze

First Dick Cheney... Now Duncan Hunter... Doh....


61 posted on 12/06/2007 6:17:28 AM PST by redrunner (We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: HD1200; OldEagle

Or the guys that shoot at ‘white flags’.
As in “I saw the bucks white flag and shot it!”

That is the foremost cause of ‘dead hunteritus’ in my area, followed closely by ‘brush’ and ‘sound’ shots.


62 posted on 12/06/2007 6:18:10 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: Red Badger

Double pay for hours ‘worked’ over the ‘norm’.
Yup.


63 posted on 12/06/2007 6:18:51 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: jstassis
Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?

In my opinion, NO! Always know your target. That dog was shot on purpose, had the shooter thought it was a deer he would have gone to check it out.......

64 posted on 12/06/2007 6:22:14 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: driftdiver

The owners have, but the police never caught anyone. I heard gunshots out there the first day of hunting season.


65 posted on 12/06/2007 6:22:26 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: HD1200
This dog should have been on a leash, especially during winter when deer are at the mercy of the weather.

How do you know it wasn't on a leash? And in any case, that hunter denied shooting the dog so that kind of excuse won't fly for him.

66 posted on 12/06/2007 6:22:53 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Are you serious,,

In other news,,:” Bigfoot spotted in South Alabama on Geneva/Dale County line area””..Killing cattle ,caught on infrared ...Really folks it’s local news..

Deer Season here until 31 Jan.,maybe we’ll tag one..


67 posted on 12/06/2007 6:25:48 AM PST by silentreignofheroes (I'm Southron,,,and I Vote...)
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To: Darksheare

68 posted on 12/06/2007 6:26:01 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

That fits.

(Also suits the guys who’d be investigating the “L.L. Bean hunters..”)


69 posted on 12/06/2007 6:27:13 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: trisham

Handsome animal. I can’t tell the diff between a Weimer and Vis...


70 posted on 12/06/2007 6:27:29 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: robomatik
“State Environmental Police?”

i’ve never heard of that department.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dle/welcome.htm

Game wardens and forest rangers with guns. When I googled it, a lot of links seemed to be over a recent hulabaloo about them not being allowed to carry their guns in court, which made it seem like they weren't real cops < snicker >.

71 posted on 12/06/2007 6:27:38 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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To: driftdiver; trisham
Have you ever tried having them arrested for trespass? If so have the authorities ever responded?

I'm sorry but I laughed at this. Where I lived in the 80's, we had a neighbor with a tree farm. It was posted. Two fools who hadn't "bagged" anything started shooting at this 70 yr old womans barn, trying to shoot off the electric lines. No. We never figured out why. She called the police and they refused to come out because the "hunters have guns". So Mable got hers. She also got their dog to come to her and after returning fire told the 2 doofuses to come back in daylight to get their dog. They were shooting at her barn in dusk..................and she was in the barn at the time.

72 posted on 12/06/2007 6:28:11 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: piytar

Where in the story does it say the dog WAS on a leash? Sheese....


73 posted on 12/06/2007 6:31:15 AM PST by HD1200
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To: Darksheare

74 posted on 12/06/2007 6:31:29 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: HD1200

I grew up in upstate NY. Dog owners there are well aware that their dogs must not in any circumstances chase deer. It is legal there to take a dog down that’s chasing deer.


75 posted on 12/06/2007 6:31:44 AM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: glock rocks
Do you know where your Kids Dogs are today...
76 posted on 12/06/2007 6:31:51 AM PST by tubebender (The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.)
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To: SpringheelJack

Maybe he denied shooting the dog because he didn’t shoot the dog....I would guess there were any number of people with firearms in the woods that day.


77 posted on 12/06/2007 6:32:19 AM PST by HD1200
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To: robomatik

That’s the new name in a lot of states for Game Wardens. With the word police in their title, they can now act like any other police agency...tickets, etc., not jus hunting related offenses.


78 posted on 12/06/2007 6:33:17 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
They're very similar:


79 posted on 12/06/2007 6:35:55 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: Red Badger

Saving that one.


80 posted on 12/06/2007 6:36:18 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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