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Old December 7th 03, 05:55 PM
DogStar716
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Default Question for the hunters here

I actually have a few questions, only one of which is actually dog related.

I live in a residential neighborhood in Utah, quite near a busy road complete
with gas stations, grocery stores, McDonalds, etc. There is a small sod farm
that is set behind the homes and in between the establishements. Canada Geese
hang out there a lot, yesterday there were at least a hundred. Kinda cool to
watch, but I realize that the sod farm owner considers them a nuisance. I know
the guy, he breeds very nice Labs, and he has told me that I can let my dogs
out there to chase the geese off, which I have done a couple of times. My GSD
couldn't care less about chasing the geese, I always have to throw his tennis
ball in their general direction to get him going the right way

Yesterday I was sitting in my house with my kids, and we heard 3 loud
explosions. We went out to our upper level deck, which overlooks the sod farm,
and saw the geese in the air. There were 5 geese still sitting on the ground,
alive but just sitting or wandering. Suddenly I see the guy throw his Lab over
the fence (literally) and send it after each bird. The dog chased and grabbed
each bird by the neck until the bird went limp, and then raced to the next
bird. The man went up to each bird (still alive), grabbed it by the neck and
did the helicopter thing, wringing the necks until they were basically bloody
strings. My daughter was screaming and crying, I sent her in the house. My
neighbors were all gathered by the fence, some calling the police. It all
happened rather quickly, and it was pretty horrific (for us non hunters).
Some of the neighbors are avid hunters, and they were also pretty apalled.
Anyway, the police were called and we were informed that the guy had permission
so it was all ok.

Question is, what was the dog doing? I realize Labs are hunting dogs, but he
wasn't retrieving, it looked like he was killing the birds?

Second question is, is this a common thing to rid sod farms, parks, and golf
courses of nuisance geese? And is there some kind of bomb or something that is
used by hunters to stun geese? I only heard the explosions, don't know if the
guy fired a shotgun or what.

I am pretty pissed off actually. My kids did not need to see that, and really,
it was a pretty chicken **** way to get some Christmas geese. Not to mention,
if the guy did fire a shotgun, it was way to close to our homes.

Dogstar716
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