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Author Topic: Tools...Toys...or Recreational Pets?  (Read 10090 times)
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« on: April 14, 2013, 01:13:36 pm »

They are hunting dogs. This makes them a tool. At the same time I spend a good deal of time with them and learn their nature and personality( if a dog has one). In this manner they are a pet. I don't hunt for a living or to keep from starving so yes it is for recreation.

Would I be able to finish the hunt if one got killed out right? Yes. If it wasn't dead and I thought I could patch it up or get it to the vet to have him do it I would stop. If the dog was just before his last breath and suffering I would end it. Then finish the hunt. Would it bother me? Yes. Would it make me not want to hunt? No.

In the end my dogs don't really fit to me what categories are available so I'm going to go with hunting dogs. The reason being is they are more than tools but less than a pet.
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