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Topic: Dogs and wolves don't mix.
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Lonny
PANTS ON THE GROUND
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posted January 14, 2005 04:28 PM
There have been at least four hounds killed by wolves in separate incidents in the past few weeks in different parts of central Idaho.
One houndsman was interviewed by the newspaper and said he had not hunted much in the backcountry the past two winters because of wolves. He turned his dogs loose on lion tracks three miles from his house and ended up having a 2-year old bluetick/walker cross female killed by wolves. He never believed wolves were that close to his house.
The real kicker is according to the article, the rules set by the USFW wouldn't allow you to protect your dog unless you are on private land that you own. Simply put, if you are on public land and have a seeing eye dog and wolves attack your seeing eye dog you are basically screwed and powerless to do anything about it. According to the law anyway. There is different rules for the protection of livestock.
[ January 14, 2005, 04:29 PM: Message edited by: Lonny ]
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Steve Craig
Lacks Opposable Thumbs/what's up with that?
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posted January 15, 2005 06:47 AM
Lonny, We had that same stupid law here for a while, but AZ finally will allow you to kill the wolf to protect your dog or person, but you better be able to prove it.
Steve
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Tim Behle
Administrator MacNeal Sector
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posted January 15, 2005 02:03 PM
I was setting out a line on a couple of new ranches up North this morning. I was talking to a pair of ranchers when on of them said "Ya know, we get some stray dogs running though here causing trouble with the cattle from time to time. If you catch them, be sure to kill them for us. A couple of them look just like wolves, but don't worry, their not."
Yeah right!
I'm setting about 40 miles south of a *********** I know them to be on. It'd be just my luck to have one of those damned things waiting on me in the morning.
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Rob
Knows what it's all about
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posted January 15, 2005 05:24 PM
Last fall a local coyote trapper caught a couple young wolves..He got ahold of Wildlife Services and they put radio collars on them..The feds didn't even know this pack existed till this trapper caught them two pups.
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Lonny
PANTS ON THE GROUND
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posted January 20, 2005 03:18 PM
Four more hounds were killed by wolves last week in this region.
An outfitter lost three dogs and a private houndsman lost one in separate attacks last week.
The outfitter was after bobcats had driven a large loop around the area they were hunting to check for wolf tracks when finding none they turned loose on a bobcat track. The hounds treed the bobcat forty minutes later and only a mile from where they were turned out. But their baying drew in a four member pack.
On another topic, I read the other day where one of the lynx from British Columbia released in Colorado two years ago was lasted tracked north of Missoula, Montana and into the panhandle of Idaho. A distance of over 800 miles. It must be homesick from the direction it is heading. A female lynx has traveled 225 miles into Wyoming.
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robins
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posted January 20, 2005 07:34 PM
This is very interesting, i didn't know that you couldnt shoot a wolf if it attacked your dogs. I would figure it would be a pretty common sence thing of pertection of life and property.
Do you guys by chance know what the law in Oregon is.
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Leonard
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posted January 20, 2005 07:47 PM
Don't know specific laws, but some would recommend: S**** S***** & S***-**!
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Baldknobber
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posted January 22, 2005 03:57 PM
Hey, guys I live in southern Mo. and we are fearful of the same thing happening here sometime in the future. We have several bears here and in the last 5 to 6 years the mtn lions are being seen on a regular basis. The Mo. dept. of conservation denies that they were brought in here, although they are tracking a female with cubs, if mysources are correct. Too many appeared in too short a time for this to be a migration from out west. They also say these damned armadillos migrated north all by theirselves after hundreds of years of living in the south. Yeah, right. would you believe that they are protected in Mo ? There has been some talk in the past of the Eastern Red Wolf being turned loose here, but have no proof to date.
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Leonard
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posted January 22, 2005 04:37 PM
Welcome to the New Huntmasters, Baldknobber. Glad to have you on board.
Good hunting. LB
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