EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

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Read this over on the Texas Hunting Forum. I know things can happen and dogs don't know boundaries but be careful where you are hunting. This guy isn't very happy and we don't need a couple of people messing it up for all of us.
Hunt responsibly!

Looks like a sticky situation there! its incredible how many people are ok with shooting dogs and support it! but i do see where they are coming from.. :o

That just upsets me... People need to think about if their "pet" got shot, tresspassing or not! What happens if their dog gets out, and goes rommping around somewhere they are not supposed to be and gets shot?? Bet you they'd be pissed! Oh well, thats why if my dogs go onto a piece of land that I KNOW I do not have permission to be on I will find a front door to a house and ask for permission, or call the GW to come help assist.

They seem to be trigger happy. If they shot my dog I'd take em to criminal and civil court. Win or lose, they would spend lots of time and money in court. In the end they would lose and wouldn't pull the trigger again.

Well there it is !!!   I had a hog dog running loose as a gaurd dog  she is 5 yr old  finished cat  anyway im watering outside hear a gunshot  and hear a dog yelp  look around 4 my dog no where 2 b seen . So, jump on 4 wheeler go to my neighbors here my dog comes down his driveway with a bloody face I go up there he came out said she was chasin chickens and points 2 a chicken coop 4 feet high with  chickens in it no chickens out of it. I ask him why he didnt just come tell me and i would have put her in a kennel he had no answer,first of all that dog wont chase chickens,cats, armidillo nothinh but hog!! Especially in a pen!! Anyway  2 weeks or so later his barn burnt and sends police over here and they make me sighn some papers saying i cant go on his place which was fine with me.Needless 2 say i took her 2 the vet spent 400$ on her nose where he shot her  but she is ruint  and i gave 1500$ FOR HER 

Black hog, i hope im nvr in the predicerment u were in, but if so. That person who shoots my dog/s will hav more than a burnt barn n possibly need a casket. I do my best to keep my dogs chained or kenneled, but #2 happens n dogs will get off chains or outa kennels. I think some of my dogs hav a lil monkey in them. Got 2 that will climb so i gotta keep them chained n kenneled. Its gonna suck for whoever malitiously shoots or kills my dogs. Them dogs cant read

Charles if u knew this man u would say he is a nut. But still he has no reason to shoot any body dog. Just say hey man would u put ur dog up. An that would have  been it but noooooo he had to shoot her point blank. An ruin the best dog he got

ive been in the sweetwater area hunting with friends that live there for many years. turkey on some large leases. the people that i bump into around the areas are more than willing to shot a dog in the open for fun. 2 years ago  had a issue i will never go back. trigger happy. need to kill something?????????????????? what ever but its not cool. feel for u guys that hunt that area all the time. o i was not trespasing.

what is worse? dog getting stolen. or one getting shot?

stolen. takes a real pecker head to steal

   Tell you how sorry some landowners are today. One of my neighbors border collies showes up at my place. I call the dog's owner, they are out of state. So being a good neighbor I take the dog home for them. My dog crosses their fence and walks up to them, they kill mine. Rich a$$ holes are what most land owners are today. Too many what if's to charge them.

bullet72 unfortunately im from Merkel bout 30 miles east of sweetwater and everyone in this area is like that. ive personally had two shot. Its all because a few young punks screwed it up for everyone. Im young myself but wouldnt do any of the stuff that most of them do. Guy i graduated had a pit that he turned onto a prized buckin bull calf. It was a son of little yellow jacket. Just laughed when he realized it wasnt a pig. The calf went lame so he let his pit kill it. Needless to say he didnt have permission actually but the lock to get in. Now i cant find anyone that'll let me run dogs around here

Good question Monty, IMO stolen... If its shot ud at least know there ok.. Stolen would leave me wondering and uneasy and HIGHLY pissed!

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 i had a guy up at the feed store tell me that he just killed two dog that he caught on his lease  they had cut collars and tracking system. but what got me was how he done it. he used a tazer  ??? and threw the collers in the river. the lease was up hempill. i told him goodthing he dont live in my area i would cut your throat and leave you in the woods ;)

i cant stand a dog killer, fella i let hunt on MY land told me he was a dog killer i just opened his truck door and told him to go on somewhere else

Every time i see this topic come up (which it does regularly) i cringe.  It never fails, people get upset, then the "What Ifs" start.   I would be extremly upset if one of my dogs were shot, at MYSELF.  After all it is my responsibility to ensure their safety,  but i will say this:

It makes hog doggers sound ignorant to say "If one of my dogs are shot i would cut the person's throat".  Seriously?  Why would anyone think its ok to kill a person for killing a dog?  I understand some people post that out of frustration, but think of how it makes us look as a whole.  The mods are always on here telling us people use this site against us, so please even if you THINK (and i use the word think, because shooting a person aint the same as shooting a dog, deer, hog etc..) you would do that... DONT POST IT..

Mods, why not shut these topics down when they start goin down this road.. It jsut makes us all look bad.

OH THIS WAS NOT MEANT AS A DEBATE ITS MY OPINION, IM ENTITLED TO IT, AND WILL NOT POST FURHTER ON THIS SUBJECT.

wats this guys name! my buddys been missing two dogs, and we live in hemphill and have been hunting here for years...

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The anger that we experience when primed with these  topics is not by any means deplorable. In fact , i think it shows the other side of the hunters; the side that cares about the dogs as best friends and kids. People want us to stop because they wrongfully assume that the hog is worth more then our dogs to us. Our dogs are not simply means to an end. Yes they do get us hogs but we each care about our dogs as an end in and of themselves and i think the ager and aggression we experience when we see topics about shot dogs actually exposes the "soft" side of us. The fatherly side; It actually shows people that this is a passion that we thoroughly enjoy and we care about our dogs. People think we load up our dogs everyday, drop them in a field and if some dont come back then o-well, THAT IS SIMPLY NOT THE CASE.

I honestly think that these people shooting these dogs don't care how we feel about our animals. This is why and how they can do what they do. To them, "It's not my dog... and it's on my land" JMO

Why not use the "Report to Moderator" button that is on the bottom of every thread if you have an issue with something?  We don't always read every thread and post...   Just click the button, then every mod gets a notification to look over a thread.

For what it's worth, I agree that these types of threads with posts about retaliation are pretty dumb.  The guys that are going to do something, don't talk about it.

No they do not care. What i was saying though was a reply to the poster who said us getting angry at people shooting our dogs is giving us a bad name. When in reality that is not the case. Although we act all gun hoe so would the people who downtalk hunting if their pet was shot. Because to many of us our hunting dogs are also our best friends. JMO

 I know yall have a heck of a job to do.  Figured something like this had already been read, and or followed.  I apologize if it came off as you guys arent doing anything.  Not my intention.

I just responded to your PM, but I'll go ahead and address it in public too.

There are a half dozen or so mods on ETHD, some of us with more free time than others. I can only speak for myself, I am not interested in reading about hounds vs. curs, BMC vs. Cat, or watching videos of a dog in a baypen... So I don't click on those posts that don't interest me. I can only assume the same to be the case with the rest of the mods.   If I see a thread with a rapidly climbing post count, I'll peek in to see what's going on.  Basically, I am saying that we miss a lot of what goes on here, and rely on the members to use the notify moderator tab, so that we can be made aware of questionable posts that we might have missed.

Go have a look at the post on Texas hunting forum now.. I'm just gonna keep mouth shut. Nothing can be gained from trying to inform them MIF's how stubborn and biased they sound.

I dont have his name. but i will fined out. if i can

it was not a what if. i told him i would do it. shooting is one thing but how he done it,is another. that not call for. you dont like what i told himGOOD. HE didn't either. and if you dont mind someone killing a dog that way, you dont need a dog. iam just saying, as my kids would say.  and any one that dont mind seeing a dog get shocked to death.I feel SORRY for you and your dog.

Well, being a policeman at a very large police department in East Texas, I sure feel sorry for the man that shoots mine.  Garmin is a really nice thing to have so I can guarantee I will have been close if it happens.  Yes it is a third degree felony to shoot someone's dog in this state unless protecting property, livestock or yourself.  Pretty easy to prove in court when you have six dogs and all are tempered/trained the same.  Good luck this year fellas and I hope none of  yall has this problem.

That's good to know... Thanks for that info! I hope they get what they deserve!!!!