Beagle Shot while hunting

[CalebConn16]

Never paid over $300 for a beagle, never will. Don’t need a high dollar dog to kill a few bunnies.

100% agree. But people do. Just making a general statement. When I was younger my mom picked every stray we came across. She still runs a fairly large rescue to this day. Anyway we picked up a gangly old mutt in an ice storm. Fed him and such got him better. He developed into one of the best rat dogs I have ever seen and he was a pup basically. He eventually killed a chicken or something so we gave him to my papaw. He sold him for nothing more or less to a man who trained squirrel dogs and that man then sold him after a year for somewhere around 4000 to someone. Man said it was the best dog he ever trained

 

[Nailer]

Killing a dog that isn't bothering livestock is never the appropriate reaction.

What about the 5 dogs that are roaming all over my mom and dads farm as well as their neighbors? They’re always in a pack and are on several videos chasing deer and I witnessed it myself. All are freshly bathed and have on collars but no one will claim them. The local shelter doesn’t want them, and the county has a law that the dog owner is responsible for any and all harm done by them.

It amazes me the responses by people over dog chasing deer are sss, yet when it’s their dog roaming around “on a track”, usually coon hunters the feelings are different. I don’t have a bloodlust for killing dogs.. but if my neighbor shot mine because I didn’t keep him up I couldn’t be mad at him. Some people have an irrational fear of dogs. My neighbors scared of my chickens. If he shot one on his property I would apologize to him and go on.

 

[Nailer]

Should this happen to a dog of mine, somebody is going to get hurt. If it was a woman, and a man was present, then he would be the target. If it was a woman, and nobody else around, I'd lose my shit, but wouldn't hit her. But a male would be in serious danger. I'm a little guy, but when I lose my shit, I get much bigger.

I really hope you aren’t saying you would let your temper flare on someone else’s property that you didn’t have permission to be on to begin with. Only saying that because situations like that never end well. Especially if the man is in danger of being “hurt”.

Don’t get me started on a man showing up halfway through some stranger, possibly armed, on his property “losing it” on said man’s wife… I can only imagine the outcome.

I mean nothing to you, and I don’t know you at all. Just wanting everyone to realize the emotions caught up in these messages.

I wasn’t there, and I don’t know the circumstances. So I won’t judge anyone. I’m not too good to shoot a dog, but I’ll admit it’s a last resort. However if my dog was unlawfully on someone else’s property and they shot him, I’d realize my fault in the situation too.

 

[bgkyarcher]

I really hope you aren’t saying you would let your temper flare on someone else’s property that you didn’t have permission to be on to begin with. Only saying that because situations like that never end well. Especially if the man is in danger of being “hurt”.

Don’t get me started on a man showing up halfway through some stranger, possibly armed, on his property “losing it” on said man’s wife… I can only imagine the outcome.

I mean nothing to you, and I don’t know you at all. Just wanting everyone to realize the emotions caught up in these messages.

I wasn’t there, and I don’t know the circumstances. So I won’t judge anyone. I’m not too good to shoot a dog, but I’ll admit it’s a last resort. However if my dog was unlawfully on someone else’s property and they shot him, I’d realize my fault in the situation too.

Best case scenario, we’re never on opposite sides of that situation. You’d have to shoot an unarmed man, or fight.

 

[Nailer]

Best case scenario, we’re never on opposite sides of that situation. You’d have to shoot an unarmed man, or fight.

I understand what you’re saying, and I’ve fought many a man. All I’m saying is are you willing to catch a felony assault charge at least, over a hound? Im not, and if I came home to a grown man, at my house in the middle of nowhere, going off on my very small wife… At least one is getting hurt, and at least one and going to jail.

Again I wasn’t trying to single anyone out, just read through the thread and tried to look at it from all sides. No doubt it sucks for everyone involved.

Some people have terrible neighbors and these things are done out of spite. I used to have terrible neighbors before I moved.

 

[Nailer]

Best case scenario, we’re never on opposite sides of that situation.

Agreed.

 

[bgkyarcher]

I understand what you’re saying, and I’ve fought many a man. All I’m saying is are you willing to catch a felony assault charge at least, over a hound? Im not, and if I came home to a grown man, at my house in the middle of nowhere, going off on my very small wife… At least one is getting hurt, and at least one and going to jail.

Again I wasn’t trying to single anyone out, just read through the thread and tried to look at it from all sides. No doubt it sucks for everyone involved.

Some people have terrible neighbors and these things are done out of spite. I used to have terrible neighbors before I moved.

I wouldn't have gone at the female, I'd gone after the male. I've never hit a woman, and wouldn't unless she declared herself a man by hitting me in the face. But, I promise you, if somebody shoots one of my dogs in my presence, in a situation like this, somebody is getting hurt. If my dog was chasing livestock, chickens, etc, they my dog fucked up. Not the case here.

 

[clovis67]

This is one sad situation on several levels…. Dogs Guns Women and Ass whoppings is a recipe for Disaster…

 

[Tankt]

I would fight for my dogs as any other member of my family. You have fought other men? Ever fight a bear? I ask bc that's what it would be like.

 

[Nailer]

No one’s life is worth that of a dogs. Not even a “bear’s”. Again I wasn’t there. And I’m not trying to derail a thread.. but please don’t trespass on someone else’s property with the intent to do them harm. Some people fight.. some people shoot. I’ve seen the outcomes of both.

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I would fight for my dogs as any other member of my family. You have fought other men? Ever fight a bear? I ask bc that's what it would be like

 

[Beagle Huntsman]

I’d be a bear too. I’m not even sure I would not hard slap the silly woman. But that’s why I don’t put my hounds in situations where harm may come to them. It is important to watch where you hunt these days, and to have reasonable control over the hounds so they aren’t starting chases that could end up in off limits territory.

 

[slobear]

So any charges brought or any other details?

 

[silentarcher]

Reading through all the messages and posts it's always easier to think and say what we would have done if we were there but we weren't. I hate to hear about this boys dog and can only imagine how devastating it was to witness and experience it. There was no reason to shoot that dog under those circumstances if it played out like originally said and I'm sure it's the truth. But it makes me think of a conversation I had with a friend recently. He's a trapper and he was telling me I should put out some traps on my place but I told him I'm afraid I'd end up with alot of no target catches because of the neighboring dog and cat population. He told me not to worry about it and that the laws have changed here in ky and you can legally kill any dog on your property for basically no reason. I haven't heard that before so I don't know whether it's true or not.

 

[Redlined]

What about the 5 dogs that are roaming all over my mom and dads farm as well as their neighbors? They’re always in a pack and are on several videos chasing deer and I witnessed it myself. All are freshly bathed and have on collars but no one will claim them. The local shelter doesn’t want them, and the county has a law that the dog owner is responsible for any and all harm done by them.

It amazes me the responses by people over dog chasing deer are sss, yet when it’s their dog roaming around “on a track”, usually coon hunters the feelings are different. I don’t have a bloodlust for killing dogs.. but if my neighbor shot mine because I didn’t keep him up I couldn’t be mad at him. Some people have an irrational fear of dogs. My neighbors scared of my chickens. If he shot one on his property I would apologize to him and go on.

There's a world of difference between supervised and unsupervised dogs. The woman at fault even claimed she heard/seen them trying to get the dogs back to where they needed to be. She acted irrationally and is now hurling excuses for a bad decision.

 

[Nailer]

There's a world of difference between supervised and unsupervised dogs. The woman at fault even claimed she heard/seen them trying to get the dogs back to where they needed to be. She acted irrationally and is now hurling excuses for a bad decision.

I was simply replying towards all of the answers that said killing dogs is never the appropriate response. I didn’t realize it would get everyone’s heart strings involved. I hate it for the boy losing his dog, and I’m not sure the law is going to be on his side simply due to location of the dog at time of the incident.

I don’t have any skin in the game and it sounds like the woman isn’t the best neighbor to have. None of my responses have been directly involved with this situation which is why I said I didn’t want to derail op’s thread.