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From: aeporro@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Bob Porro)
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Subject: Re: Dogs and Deer
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Date: 15 Mar 91 12:22:11 GMT
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From: aeporro@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Bob Porro)
In article <331@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>, clochmul@nrambr.chem.duke.edu (C. H. Lochmueller) writes...
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>From: clochmul@nrambr.chem.duke.edu (C. H. Lochmueller)
>It is a long tradition here in the South dating before the war of Northern
>Agression to use dogs to hunt deer. The typical deer hound is a gentle dog
>and they are known to be so unlikely to fight that they are killed by wild
>dogs here. There seems to be some real prejudice about using dogs to hunt
>among northerners who move here and one even shoots them as they cross the
>back of her property beyond her property line! 
> 
>This isn't a moral question, dear moderator. Just a stimulus to discussion.
> 
>CHL

>From what I remember as a young boy growing up in rural Pennsylvania,
I recall that it was illegal to hunt deer with dogs.  Therefore, no
dogs were tranined to hunt deer, and the dogs that typically chased
after deer were on the wild side.  Where I lived, sometimes you would
see a pack of these dogs chasing a deer down until it could no longer
flee and then kill it.  It was common knowledge in this area that if
you saw a dog chasing deer, you were justified in shooting it.

As for your problem, it is definitely a difference in cultural
background.  This "Northerner" obviously doesn't understand that your
dogs are used to hunt deer in a humane manner.  I disagree with her
actions -- isn't there a way to get the local game warden to explain
to her the deer hunting philosophy down South, and the legal
consequences of shooting a hunting dog?


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