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From: decuac!decvax!bunker!kinney@uunet.uu.net (Will Kinney)
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Subject: Re: Dogs and Deer
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Date: 17 Mar 91 14:15:50 GMT
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From: decuac!decvax!bunker!kinney@uunet.uu.net (Will Kinney)

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! 

Well, I grew up in Montana, where, as far as I know, nobody hunts deer with
dogs. It is not uncommon, however, for dog owners to let their animals run
free in the woods -- these dogs form up into packs and do a little hunting
on their own. A favorite tactic is to chase a deer onto a frozen lake, where
the deer can't walk but the dogs can, then close in and eat.

There is a very firm and widely-held rule up there -- dogs running deer are
shot on sight. It is not unheard of for a dog owner to put his own animal
down if he finds out it's running deer. Actually *training* a dog to run
deer would be considered horrifying.


                                 -- Will