Stealing hunting dogs

[Ed]

My parents had their beagle stolen from their house last week, She was about 9 years old. Well whoever stole her took her and tried to get her to chase deer. When she wouldn't the just left her in the woods. She was found 4 days later run over about 30 miles from their house. This REALLY burns me up..Are people really that lazy and heartless where they will steal someone elses dog? I have heard of that before but is it really common?

I put this in hunting because hunters are the people who would see this kind of thing and recognize it.

 

[mtnbkr]

How do you know they tried to get her to run deer and that they left her in the woods if she was found dead on the road?

Chris

 

[Ed]

Because she was 30 miles from home in front of a deer camp and it was in the middle of nowhere Mississippi. She WAS a hunting dog in a previous life. My Dad found her after deer season 7 years ago starving and brought her home to try to find the owners. When they couln't find the owners they kept her. She was a REAL shy dog that never wanted to be away from my parents. I know people steal dogs to hunt, It has happened in my parents neighborhood before, just don't know if its real common. If someone stole my lab to try to make her hunt, I have a feeling they would be bringing her home quick, she would scare off all the ducks.

This isn't a hunter bashing thread, because I thinlk 98% of hunters have morals. I don't use dogs to hunt but have in the past, when they ran them at the camp we belonged to. I perfer to hunt without them when deer hunting.

 

[crawfish]

There are many reasons dogs are stolen, to be used as chew toys for fighting dogs, to be turned into puppy machines in a puppy factory, to be sold to a research lab, to name a few. No reason to doubt your assumption but IMO unless the thief recognized the dog as a former hunter they wouldn’t waste the time on an unknown quality. BTY beagles are the #1 dog used in research.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

I can't imagine why someone would want to steal a dog like that. Really too old to breed or hunt, I'd think.

Still, I think the perps should be run over themselves.

My condolences to your parents; I'm sure they feel terrible about this.

 

[sumpnz]

From what I understand labs won't take "stray" animals anymore. They have breeders that are specifically contracted to provide them with animals. Animals from unknown sources introduce too many variables.

 

[crawfish]

sumpnz you know that, I know that, but I'll bet a paycheck the person who would steal a dog doesn't, results a dog dropped off in the middle of nowhere left to fend for itself. BTY a bit of info on that. I went to my vet to get my Lab tattooed. He said that a dog thief would cut off an ear or even a leg on a female to put it into a puppy factory or a research lad. So I went with a chip which doesn’t prevent anything but may get my dog back. I understand that there is now DNA registering of pets. Guess if the thief wants it they will get it one way or another. :banghead:

 

[Buck Snort]

What's a real pisser is that the court's generally don't get to het up over somebody stealing a dog. If the guy gets caught he may get a $50 fine and a good stern warning to be a good boy.

 

[Moparmike]

Ed, I hope I never experience that. I have a 5yr old Beagle at home, and if I ever cought the SOB that would try to or did such a thing, I guarantee that he would only live long enough to wish he hadn't lived so long. I love my dogs like they were my children, and...oooh. I am getting so mad and tearing up at the same time.




I hope you find the SOB that did that. And as far as I am concerned, that is the sort of people that the 3s policy was invented for.

 

[haynhogdogger]

DOG THIEVES

UNFORTUNATELY HERE IN HAWAII THIS IS BECOMING WAY TO COMMON. THE PEOPLE TODAY HAVE NO HONOR,RESPECT ETC OF SOMEONE ELSES PROPERTY I LOVE MY DOGS AS MY KIDS AND THEY HAVE BEEN STOLEN BEFORE 99.99% OF THE TIME FROM YOUNG PUNKS WHO HAVE NO CONSCIENCE AND KNOW NOT THE JOY OF RAISING AND TRAINING THERE OWN HUNTING DOG. THEY JUST WANT THE GLORY OF CATCHING SOMETHING NOWADAYS "THE HUNT" MEANS LESS AND LESS AND I PERSONALLY BLAME THOSE SOB'S THAT CALL THEMSELVES HUNTERS BUT ARE THIEVES THEY ARE JUST TO DAMN LAZY TO TRAIN THERE OWN DAMN DOGS PERIOD!!! USUALLY IF CAUGHT THEY WISH THEY NEVER DID!!!!!!!!!! THIS NEW BREED OF SO CALLED"HUNTERS" ARE JUST MISGUIDED YOUNG PUNKS WHO WERENT TAUGHT THE RIGHT WAY BUT BELIEVE IF CAUGHT THEY LEARN REALLY QUICK BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG. THEY ALSO STEAL DOGS AND SEND THEM OFF ISLAND. I ONCE WENT OFF ISLAND TO HUNT WITH A FRIEND WE WERE AT A RESTRAUNT GETTING ABITE TO EAT WHEN ANOTHER HUNTER CAME BY I WENT TO CHECK OUT HIS DOGS AND LO AND BEHOLD MY DOG THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY STOLEN WAS IN HIS TRUCK HE SAID HE BOUGHT IT FROM A GUY ON MY ISLAND SO WHEN I GOT BACK HE HAD SOME SERIOUS EXPLAINING TO DO.

HUNTING DOG THIEVES HERE AND EVERYWHERE SHOULD BE........ I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO THE IMAGINATION!

 

[12 Volt Man]

There is a special spot in hell for dog thieves.

Read this thread. It has a happy ending.

http://www.gundogforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=552

 

[Battlespace]

We have a 7 or 8 YO Beagle who is worthless as a rabbit dog, but great as a companion for the kids. She has got to be the world's best escape artist from a fenced in yard. Continually gets out, so we put in a wireless fence, running the signal wire on the top of the existing wooden fence. The local squirrels keep chewing through the wire and last week she made the great escape again. About an hour after she got out she was at the back door with blood running down her hip. It looked like a small puncture wound so we took her to the vet. An xray showed a BB lodged next to her spine. The vet recommended leaving it in, which we did. I filed a report with the local PD, for what that is worth. The officer said since the dog was "running free" they could not do anything about it. I told her I understood, but wanted to have the report filed so when someone had a window on a car shot they would have some previous history to look at. I have a suspect, but no proof. I am tightening up the fence watch to make certain the bushy tails don't chew the wires any more and keeping an eye on the grouch across the creek as he is the number one suspect.