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Are Traditional Bows humane?
D. Tiller:
Guys, all I'm saying is I think there were alternatives. How about your friend getting the dog fixed so he dont have to worry about it in the future? True, he had the right to do it. But, I always like to consider there is some kid out there that would love to have a puppy. Sure helped out when I was a kid. Builds a lot of charector and teaches responsibility.
The pounds where you are from are charging to take on unwanted pets? Jeesh! Thats lousy! Dont think that happens here.
Justin Snyder:
David, I can appreciate what your saying. But a lot of these guys have $5000 dogs. The blood lines need protected for the value of the dog to stay there. Sometimes you have accidental breeding from some yahoo's dog while you are hunting. They have given away pups under the condition that they will be for kids and fixed. Then the yahoo that takes them starts breeding them. After that they cull the pups they don't want. Like I said, its not weather or not he was doing the best thing. It is the fact that someone had the gall to charge him with cruelty to animals. Justin
D. Tiller:
Quick death is better than just starving them to death. Personally I could not do it to a pup. Charging your friend with cruelty may be over the top too.
$5000 for a dog?!?! Jeesh, maybe I'm in the wrong buisness!
Justin Snyder:
They are hunting dogs. I can find you some worth $10000-$15000 if you want. ;D When you hunt for a living, a dog that can reliably catch 100 lion a year is worth a lot. Ironically, it is the culling of unwanted dogs that has produced these incredible hunters. Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Justin
Hillbilly:
Dad used to talk about bear hunting with Vonn Plott, one of the family who originated the well-known Plott breed of hounds (they originated here in the county I live in-most of us here grew up coon and bear hunting with hounds and know all about hauling thousand-dollar coon dogs around in our five-hundred-dollar trucks :) ). He said Vonn would sometimes go into the woods with a pack of young dogs and come out with a couple of dogs and a bunch of collars on his belt. That's how they bred 'em, if they didn't perform like they were bred to, they didn't live to reproduce. Right or wrong, that's the way most of the old-school houndsmen were.
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