I doubt you spoke to anyone.And if you did, you made sure to get the answer you wanted through misrepresentation of fact.Game wardens in Vermont have to kill dogs on a frequent basis, it is part of their job if they are field officers. Not killing a dog in ten years?He must have had others do it then, or you are lying.
You seem awfully pushy and anxious too , to say you are victorious when you do not even live here. Its quite a laugh. Are you under 5 feet and drive a Harley too? LOL.
I stand 100% behind what I said on this thread,and I know it from experience. You can call Saint Michael if you want as well as every game warden in the state ,and it won’t change my experience,or the way the I have seen the cited law applied here, whether you like it or not.LOL.
I happen to like it. Thats what gives you the problem, does it not? Well, do not bring your dog to Vermont if you have to have him running loose, or better still, never move here. You won’t like it.And you would be doing all Vermonters a favor too, no doubt.
Yes, game wardens have to shoot dogs as a matter of course here in Vermont, as you will read below.And I hope they all continue to do the good job they have been doing in making owners control their dogs.
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Deer Stories is a documentary series from Vermont Folklife Center Media that explores hunting from an insider’s point of view and is drawn from interviews with hunters from around Vermont. In this program retired Game Warden Stan Holmquist reflects on dogs as predators of deer.
Stanley Holmquist
People that have dogs, I’ve talked to a lot of ‘em that really hated me because I ended up shooting their dogs. There’s a thrill in the chase. You know, they were chasing for miles and a deer is a sprinter, where a dog covers a lot of land at a nice steady pace, but the deer will run as hard as he can for a short period, probably a quarter-mile and, you know, that’s in good, on good ground. If there’s snow involved he’ll get exhausted much faster. And a deer, being a wild animal, they’ll run until the blood vessels in their lung will just explode and you’ll find the deer with white—pink foam coming out of their mouth and you can’t save it. I had a lady, she had two of the most beautiful Goldens you ever saw and I told her: Don’t let ‘em loose because, you know, they’re gonna chase deer. And I caught her dogs with a deer in a brook. Brought the dogs home and I gave her a dog letter. Within three days, I think it was, they were out chasing again, so I gave her a citation to appear in court, but the dogs started running free again, so I says that’s it. And I shot two of the nicest Goldens you ever saw. And I took the dogs back home and I said, you know, I told her, “You’re responsible for this. Don’t blame me. You are responsible. You had all, had the warning.” And I tried to get her to go up and go look at the—you know, where the dog had killed the deer ‘cause, you know, they had it in a small park and there were pieces of deer hair and everything all over, blood everywhere. She wouldn’t go. She wouldn’t go. She didn’t want to see it. She had no idea there were even any deer around and she was living right in amongst them, you know. A lot of people, like city folks, they come up out of New York City or Newark, New Jersey, or places like that and they buy a second home here and, you know, they love to see the deer and they love to see the trees and all that stuff, but they just don’t—it’s more like Born Free, you know. But the deer, you know, they don’t have anybody to fend for ‘em, other than us, the Game Wardens. I went from being a hunter of deer to a protector. You know, I wouldn’t go out and shoot a deer for no money in the world. No, I wouldn’t even go out and shoot an injured one. I call the Game Warden, you know, and let him do it. I’ve had enough of that. So. I still respect, you know, that that deer is suffering and I can feel for it. And I feel for all of ‘em. On the cold days, you know, 10-below or stuff like that, I know just what they’re going through, you know? How they get down in the snow in the winter to keep warm. Oh, boy. That’s from being in the deer yards, finding their beds. And going from just being a hunter to a lover of deer, I guess is what you’d call it. It’s quite a switch. But I guess I fulfill my hunting ambition by hunting hunters. [LAUGHS.] And now, now I can look back on it all: I wouldn’t change a thing. I loved it all. So not many people can say that.
http://vermontfolklifecenter.org/multimedia/radio/deer-stories/prog11/
Really? I gave you his name and number....in case you missed it, here it is again...
Dennis Amsden, Danville, VT (your county) 802-751-7695
I URGE you to call him, and tell him he is not doing his job.
Better yet, give me your name and number via FReepmail, and I assure you he will be anxious to call you. PLEASE, let's do it this way, it would warm the cockles of my heart to have you tell him he is a lying slacker.
As to your "Deer Stories"..I have no reason to doubt the tale. Mr. Amsden, if you recall from my earlier post, did say dogs were a problem 20 years ago, not so lately. Mr. Holmquist is retired, quite elderly to judge from his picture, and the story gives no date. So I simply can't argue that it's not gospel, but I can argue that it's surely not the case today.
I grew up in MI, have hunted deer for 50 years, and am familiar with deer-running dogs. They really aren't much of a threat to deer except in hard winters, when yarding up...this was also Mr. Amsden's opinion.
Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let's get you and he together....I'd pay 5 bucks to listen in.
You voted for Howard Dean foor governor back then, didn’t you?