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Montana hunter who mistook husky pup for a small wolf gets 6-month deferred sentence: report

Danielle Wallace
Wed, March 1, 2023 at 8:53 AM CST

A Montana woman, who infamously went viral for boasting online about killing and skinning a husky pup she mistook for a small wolf, was reportedly temporarily banned from hunting for the next six months.

Amber Rose Barnes, 36, of Martin City, Montana, received a six-month deferred sentence Tuesday, The Daily Mail reported. Part of the terms of her punishment were that she attends a hunting safety class and is banned from using her hunting rifle for the next six months.

The woman was charged in October with the misdemeanor offense of animal cruelty, Fox News Digital previously confirmed.

In September, Barnes sparked outrage online after posting several photos while posing with what she claimed was a "predator wolf pup" that she "smoked" while venturing out in the Flathead National Forest in Doris Creek, about 60 miles south of Glacier National Park, while searching for a black bear.

"I got the opportunity to take another predator wolf pup 2022 was a great feeling to text my man and say I just smoked a wolf pup #firstworld #onelesspredatorMT," she wrote on Facebook.

Amber Rose Barnes grins as she holds a Siberian husky she shot and killed
Hunter Amanda Rose Barnes bragged on Facebook about shooting a wolf pup, but outraged users pointed out that her prey was a Siberian husky.
Authorities later said the skinned animal was instead a 6-month-old husky.

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office said that it was contacted on Sept. 23 by local citizens who had picked up several husky and shepherd mix dogs in the area of Doris Creek in Flathead National Park. The parties picked up 11 dogs, which were turned over the Animal Control and taken to an animal shelter.

Several of those dogs tested positive for parvovirus and were being evaluated, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office said it was advised through Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks that one of the dogs that had been released into the wild might have been shot. It was not known who left the dogs.

In another post, Barnes admitted she made a mistake but defended her actions.

"My safety was my top priority," Barnes wrote, claiming much of the information circulating in articles and social media posts was "not true whatsoever." "This animal was growling, howling, and coming at me like it was going to eat me. Yes, I made a mistake because I did think it was a hybrid wolf pup."

She said she was not aware at the time that a group of dogs had been released into the wilderness.

"Either way, yes I would still have shot it because it was aggressive and coming directly for me!" Barnes wrote. "So please remove all your [posts] thinking I just shot and killed someone’s pet!"

"I did NOT break any laws!!!" she added before she was charged. "I’m not a cruel individual."

So MT has a law against shooting feral dogs?

Is this more Babylon Bee?

This. She's not too bright, and I love huskies, but is it illegal to dispatch a feral dog in the middle of a wilderness area?

It’s catching
https://www.cbs7.com/2023/03/02/hun...hought-they-were-coyotes/?outputType=amp

If only ...


Apparently, if officials face enough public poosy outrage over it. Terrible precedent.

Might not keep her from shooting another one but it might teach her about putting sh$t on fakebook.lol mb

How in the hell is this animal cruelty? Seriously. You can't shoot a stray dog? In Montana? WTF?

She forgot to practice the three SSS's ... SHOOT - SKIN - & STFU, lol.

I wonder how many people have mistaken turkey vultures for wild turkeys?

Isn’t she pretty hot?

Lol. Yeah, she’s an LBP kinda gal.

Not bad at all.

It was one of about a dozen pups that someone had apparently dumped in the wilderness. They all needed to be shot before they got old enough to breed. She did us a favor.

She should have just kept quiet after her initial Fakebook post blew up into controversy. Of course in hindsight she did think it was a wolf and the first mistake was putting it on a public forum.

When I got to court I would have just told the judge I was sorry for upsetting folks but the damn dog was out in the wilderness and Huskies darn sure favor wolves and in that other case German Shepherds look a lot like coyotes.

Reckon we can't just say "well you made a misidentification but you did eliminate a problem"?

We are dealing with an amateur hunter, and those young folks need to be encouraged, so I'm glad the judge went lenient considering the dumbass pu-sy outrage. She killed a stray dog not a human baby.

Damn right, she’s kinda chubby 😍

Funny as fugg she skun it out...
Then to find out it was husky.
That had to be embarrassing as hell....

And then add all of the schitt show from it...


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I like corn-fed country girls. Not too fat, but not bony.

Yes Sir !

Sounds like it. Apparently Montana is practicing to be the next Colorado. 😜
Move in enough Californification Transplants and Mission Accomplished. 🤪
Her biggest mistake was posting on Facebook.
And not following the rule of SSS.

This one nearly reaches the same level as the dude that shot the Llama off a Hutterite colony near Sunbeam, MT. back in the nineties. He thought he had the world record mule deer doe. The taxidermist on the other hand told him to "git that thing outta here!". The guys at the game check station had a good laugh as well.

Then there's the "I thought it was an elk" guy outside of Paradise shot hiself a yamma too.

https://matr.net/news/new-york-hunt...f-hunting-mistake-becomes-web-sensation/