[Rhodes22-list] This is cause of America's problems...

[elle]

In this area dogs are permitted to run deer. 

The hunters loose the dogs at night, where they run
through the fields and forested areas (and through
posted land, as they are not 'hunting'), exhausting
the deer, which are then easily picked off in the
morning by the hunters sitting on the edge of the
fields in their plush trucks. 

The dogs wear transmitters so the hunters can track
them. The hunters abandon any dogs that don't
'produce' or wander out of range. There is an
abandoned hunting dog up the road we are trying to
capture  as he is slowly starving...the dog warden
won't bother if he is not vicious....looks like we may
h ave to invent some teeth to get this pup rescued.

Through the sumer the hunters 'train' their dogs by
letting them run at night; many nights in this area we
are awakened by the howling & baying right outside our
homes as the dogs barrel through our properties.

We see many trucks from MD as well as VA during dog
season.


elle


--- Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:

> Good folks,
> 
> When I lived in upstate PA, I hung a sign at my
> driveway 
> entrance - "Rifle Range" - during hunting seasons
> and set 
> man targets here and there on the property. 
> Naturally, 
> the local constabulary - sheriff, police, and game
> warden - 
> were very curious, and stopped in to visit.  
> 
> I told them it was a sham to keep hunters away from
> my 
> house, and would they please talk up how dangerous
> it was, 
> etc.  They cooperated nicely, and hunters kept away
> from 
> "that nut up on the hill"...
> 
> I only shot a few holes in the targets now and then
> to 
> preserve the illusion - generally when some jerk was
> 
> walking past my "Rifle Range" sign on the driveway
> with
> a weapon on his arm.  Target, of course, was nowhere
> near
> him.
> 
> /Robert
> 
> Rob Lowe wrote:
> > 
> > Mary Lou,
> > I can relate.  We keep the hunting schedule nearby
> too.  Our house is
> > surrounded by woods where hunters frequent.  We've
> got a yellow/brown dog
> > that could pass for a deer to those "shoot at what
> moves" type hunters.  She
> > hates it when we keep her fenced in during the
> season. - rob
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] This is cause of
> America's problems...
> > 
> > > Now Ed, I think you are overstating things in
> your subject line. She
> > > is entitled to her opinion (just as you are
> entitled to make fun of
> > > her earnest plea for those "innocent animals of
> the forest"). I'm
> > > sure a few folks at the Greenville News got a
> chuckle when they printed
> > it.
> > >
> > > I used to have to contend with a woman who made
> a formal complaint
> > > every 2 years or so about the fact that we (the
> public library)
> > > carried "Pennsylvania Game News", the official
> publication of the PA
> > > Game Commission. "Propaganda for blood lust" I
> believe she called it
> > > in one complaint. Glad I don't have to deal with
> that anymore.
> > >
> > > Down here in MD we keep the news item about
> hunting seasons on the
> > > refrigerator door so we know what they are
> shooting at. We note that
> > > the goose season closes for the shorter deer
> season and then reopens,
> > > probably so the deer hunters in blaze orange
> don't pick off the goose
> > > hunters in camo. A local marina had to remove
> their moorings
> > > permanently because they interfered with the
> duck hunting rights of
> > > the guy that owned the adjacent shoreline. The
> marina made out ok
> > > because they got a quick permit to extend their
> docks and added about
> > > 30 or 40 slips.
> > >
> > > Mary Lou
> > >
> > >
> > > At 02:00 PM 11/29/2007, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >and just think, this lady votes.  See
> attachment from Greenville News.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.nabble.com/file/p14032703/bears.jpg
> bears.jpg
> > > >
> > > >Ed K
> > > >Greenville, SC, USA
> > > >
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> > >
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