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From: nvuxl!gjb@bellcore.bellcore.com (G. Blanchard)
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Subject: re: Deer & dogs
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Date: 16 Mar 91 12:14:37 GMT
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From: nvuxl!gjb@bellcore.bellcore.com (G. Blanchard)
When I was growing up in Maine, it was quite illegal to hunt deer
with dogs. Wild dogs did pack up, however, and run down deer. It
was generally accepted that if a dog is seen running deer, that the
hunter would try to spare the deer and shoot the dog. - spoken like
a true yankee, I guess.

I think that the big fear was that the dogs would chase the deer out
of their wintering yards and once the deer were out into the soft snow, 
they couldn't move fast - thus there was/is the potential for a small
pack of dogs killing lots of deer.

Gary B.