3 Demotte dogs shot

[semperfi211]

Police: Man was within legal rights to shoot dogs
Three dogs get out of their yard and are shot for trying to get at fenced in deer. The man that shot them says he tried to scare them off before shooting them. I would be very upset if these were my dogs. How do you feel about this?https://www.facebook.com/icodistric...755615739100/1186934871321172/?type=3&theater

 

[OutdoorDad]

The "trying to get at" makes me think there was a fence in between the deer and the dogs when they were killed. Correct?

 

[Kutnupe14]

The "trying to get at" makes me think there was a fence in between the deer and the dogs when they were killed. Correct?

They may have been inside the fence chasing the deer.

 

[hoosierdoc]

They dug out of their own fence and were digging under the fence where the deer were. It's in the article.

 

[Kutnupe14]

The dogs were digging under the fence "trying to get at" the deer. Sad, but justified.

 

[semperfi211]

The property owner said he attempted to "run the dogs off with his four wheeler" after discovering them attempting to dig their way into the fenced-in deer, but they would not leave, police said.

"He said, as a last resort, he shot the dogs to protect the lives of the contained deer," according to police.

 

[OutdoorDad]

Can you raise deer like livestock? Legally?

 

[churchmouse]

Police: Man was within legal rights to shoot dogs
Three dogs get out of their yard and are shot for trying to get at fenced in deer. The man that shot them says he tried to scare them off before shooting them. I would be very upset if these were my dogs. How do you feel about this?https://www.facebook.com/icodistric...755615739100/1186934871321172/?type=3&theater

Regardless this will get ugly.

Best bet to anyone is keep your pets in the yard.

 

[87iroc]

I'd hate it and be pissed if it were my dogs...BUT they were out of their own area....(flipping it around)trying to get at my animals(if it was Dogs trying to dig to get to my dogs)...I'd have thought about shooting them as well. Or brought my dogs in the house(not possible with deer)

 

[Fargo]

Where I grew up, dogs running on property that held any form of livestock were expected to be shot. Indiana has a statute on it (ic 15-20-2) imposing strict liability on the owners of livestock killing dogs and the owner should probably shut up before she gets cited under the IC or local OV for failing to keep her dogs contained (repeatedly).

Plus, anyone who refers to a 3 year old husky as a "puppy" has no credibility with me.

 

[femurphy77]

Guy's keeping deer fenced, more than likely so he can charge some big city ******* several thousand dollars to come and shoot them while they eat out of the keepers hand? I've already got a problem with the shooter.

 

[Fargo]

Guy's keeping deer fenced, more than likely so he can charge some big city ******* several thousand dollars to come and shoot them while they eat out of the keepers hand? I've already got a problem with the shooter.

So you have issues with what (you assume) he legally does with his property?

 

[churchmouse]

Where I grew up, dogs running on property that held any form of livestock were expected to be shot. Indiana has a statute on it (ic 15-20-2) imposing strict liability on the owners of livestock killing dogs and the owner should probably shut up before she gets cited under the IC or local OV for failing to keep her dogs contained (repeatedly).

Plus, anyone who refers to a 3 year old husky as a "puppy" has no credibility with me.

I have said it many times in these threads. I grew up around farm folks. Once a dog served no purpose or got after the livestock it was put down right away.
I understand how dogs are considered family. Beyond that these animals apparently did not like staying home and no, a 3 year old Husky is no puppy by any measure.

Now that said, I hope this thread does not go off the emotional rails.
Most of these do. This one will not. OK.........Seriously.

 

[Trigger Time]

Guy's keeping deer fenced, more than likely so he can charge some big city ******* several thousand dollars to come and shoot them while they eat out of the keepers hand? I've already got a problem with the shooter.

So what. That's not illegal if he does it the right way. If that's what he does at all. I have no idea.
I have a problem with other people being nosey and trying to dictate to others what they can do on their own property. The government or a individual.

Good shoot!

 

[phylodog]

I would be very upset as well if they were my dogs but I would be upset at myself. The dogs were doing what dogs do, the person who shot them had every right and the dog owner failed to look after the safety of their animals. There is no other way to look at it as a logical person.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Let's see...

1. Keeping the deer is perfectly legal under the circumstances at hand. While I have a personal distaste for canned hunts, that is not necessarily the business the man is in, as some people raise deer in a similar fashion to what we would consider 'regular' domestic livestock. I also feel compelled to say that there are plenty of people who find our ownership of firearms as distasteful as some find canned hunts. How would we feel if it were suggested that we should not be entitled to defend our property, expect law enforcement to return our stolen guns, or should be required to passively allow criminals to steal them right before our eyes? The bottom line is that I am not going to disparage the property owner for engaging in a perfectly legal use of his property, land and livestock alike.

2. Perceiving the dogs as a threat and treating them as such. First and foremost, this man offered more restraint that you are likely to see from me in the event of any animal, wild or domestic, threatening my alpacas. Those dogs are large enough to represent a threat to the deer. Has they been Yorkies, I might consider the response excessive, but not with Huskies. Significant is that dogs which had dug their way to freedom from one fence were similarly trying to breach another fence for access to the deer. Contrary to the stupidity in the Facepalm comments, the highly emphasized 7 foot height of the fence is irrelevant to a dog digging UNDER it. It just goes to show how impossibly stupid your average denizen of Facepalm can be.

When it is all said and done, I can sympathize with the dog owner for an unpleasant loss, but on the other hand, I cannot reasonably expect the owner of very expensive animals properly contained on his own property to allow someone else's dogs to make chew toys out of his herd for fear of disturbing the delicate sensibilities of the dogs' owner.

 

[hoosierdoc]

There's someone two miles from me who raises deer. No idea what they do with them but I think it's cool.

if I were the shooter I would have iPhone footage of the dogs digging and three carcasses inside the fence next to a completed hole.

 

[Fargo]

I would be very upset as well if they were my dogs but I would be upset at myself. The dogs were doing what dogs do, the person who shot them had every right and the dog owner failed to look after the safety of their animals. There is no other way to look at it as a logical person.

I get the impression that the owner running to the prosecutor is desperately trying to avoid the reality that she repeatedly failed to contain the dogs and it led to them dying.

I recently got called by a friend who needed help to put down/butcher/packa number of lambs, sheep,and turkeys which had been torn up by two huskies which got through his fences and mauled thousands of dollars in livestock. I wasn't able to help him this time, but I've seen/euthanized enough livestock run by dogs that my sympathy level for this lady is not what it might be.

 

[sadclownwp]

My favorite comments are the ones saying the shooter should have fired his gun up in the air. You know because bullets don't travel far and come back down.

 

[churchmouse]

If anyone has ever had to shoot pack dogs on a farm, some with collars, They might see this a bit differently.......might.