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That's my thought.

did you attend the funeral?

Probably. Shooting the dog may, or may not, have been the right thing to do. We weren't there. You don't have to be there to know that allowing your dog to run loose on somebody else's hunting property is the wrong thing to do.

That is one fearsome dog , I bet the bowhunter shat his pants when he charged. I bet he has decimated the local deer herd.

Cops shoot family pets all the time for any reason. What's the big deal?

...and just like people, they don't shoot a fraction of the ones they should. Too much BS to deal with.

agree, just pointing out the guy is not being honest.

Dog was obviously pretty close based on shot placement and only one person knows how aggressive he was. I doubt dusting him up with an arrow at his feet would be of much benefit.

There are a couple of half grown pups that showed up here at our place she can have to replace her dog.
We're getting ready to head out and see if they've been chipped, although I'm guessing not.
I think they were a couple of rambunctious pups that someone couldn't handle and dumped out in the country.

I always worry about this kind of thing. I have a lot of hunters on my place, mostly bird hunters on the home place.

I have dogs, protective, not vicious.

So far I have not had any trouble with hunters.......

I guess most of them understand that they had better not shoot a dog out here.

Next year when I by sheep and guard dogs, I suppose I will have to post signs about keeping away and no dogs.

I grew up dairying. We've had two expensive milk cows relegated to 250$ stocker cows by peoples "Pet dogs"
My dad took the position that dogs were worse than coyotes and told us to shoot on sight any dogs on our place.
To this day I kill them all and let God sort them out.
I keep my dogs up, everyone else should to.

What people are trying to show is that hunters only want to kill stuff. That dog was just sniffing flowers and bounding around in a nice open meadow chasing butterflies, when the nasty hunter came along and just for the fun of it, killed the dog.

Of course every dog owner knows their dog doesn't bite anybody, while the guy that gets bitten doesn't know the dog doesn't really bit.

It would only happen once on my land.

Next day it would all be posted.

Not all therapy dogs are seeing eye dogs. Many just provide emotional relief. I've been around many and they are often pretty magical with people.

I've also known one guy who bought a "Therapy Dog in Training" vest for his dog so it could fly on an airline with him. My opinion of that is probably what most of yours are likely to be.

Theres holes all through this story. First, individuals don't have "Therapy" dogs, unless it is to take them to hospitals and other venues as Therapy for patients.
Second,if it was a treasured "Therapy" dog what the hell was it doing running loose? JFC a decent pet owner doesn't even let their dog run loose.
I don't like the sound of the bowhunters side of the story either...

I am a big time dog lover. I don't get to hunt much and when I do, I have to put a good bit of time into it. I can't tell you how many hunts have been screwed up on account of someone's dog running through the private property I was hunting. It pisses me off but good. I have had my crosshairs on them ready to squeeze the trigger, and just can't bring myself to do it. The people that own the dogs will just replace them with another dog that will do the same thing. The deer hunters who use dogs around here keep them penned up and pay no attention to them for most of the year. It's just a cost of doing business when their dogs get shot. My son-in-law stacks them up though. Then takes their radio collars way don into a tangled hell and tosses them.

I got a therapy beaver.

Knucklehead meets knucklehead, coming through the rye. Dog pays the price.

This. Also, I must have missed it, but what kind of dog was it?

People get way to uptight about dogs and deer. I have had hot races blow through and then see big deer ten minutes later acting like nothing was wrong. A deer pays no more attention to a lone pet than it does a lone coyote. I've seen, even shot coyotes, and then have seen an undisturbed deer before my ears stopped ringing.