TAILWALKER
08-17-2009, 01:06 PM
Just an informative post but I had to rescue about a week old fawn Saturday from two dogs that were trying their best to kill it. Luckily I was close by and heard the fawn start screaming and knew what it was and was able to get to it quickly. Thought for sure I was going to find that a coyote or some other wild animal had the fawn. Nope, it was two yellow labs, both of them young dogs, probably less than a year old, growling, snarling and really wanting blood.
They had this poor little fawn by the throat and hind quarters. They had punctured it's windpipe and ripped about a golfball sized piece of flesh from the top of one hind quarter. Hopefully my intervening saved this little bucks life but people just need to be aware that their housepets or mild mannered pet can be a blood thirsty killer when they find something like this. It never ceases to amaze me how people think that their pet could never harm another animal.
These dogs did not want to let go. They were bound and determined to kill this fawn, which they clearly would have. As hunters we all kill coyotes and other predatory animals to prevent this sort of thing as we know they can contribute heavily to fawn mortality but many people fail to realize just how damaging dogs roaming the woods can be.
We all want the deer to grow up to be trophy animals and they certainly can't do that if our domestic animals are also killing them. :popcorn::soapbox:
They had this poor little fawn by the throat and hind quarters. They had punctured it's windpipe and ripped about a golfball sized piece of flesh from the top of one hind quarter. Hopefully my intervening saved this little bucks life but people just need to be aware that their housepets or mild mannered pet can be a blood thirsty killer when they find something like this. It never ceases to amaze me how people think that their pet could never harm another animal.
These dogs did not want to let go. They were bound and determined to kill this fawn, which they clearly would have. As hunters we all kill coyotes and other predatory animals to prevent this sort of thing as we know they can contribute heavily to fawn mortality but many people fail to realize just how damaging dogs roaming the woods can be.
We all want the deer to grow up to be trophy animals and they certainly can't do that if our domestic animals are also killing them. :popcorn::soapbox: