So I read the long thread about the guy who killed a dog..... I've never killed a dog, because I love dogs....but I know the Koreans and other Asians eat them and the American Indians ate them as well, so on the way home last night I stopped by the pound and picked a coupla up that were about to get the ax so to speak. They turned them over to me for about 5 dolla a pound. Turns out they are pretty tasty. Might go for a more of a lap dog like a yorkie next time but Hound and poodle do alright. SB:d
ok, imma stir the pot a bit then..... down in AL we've had quite a big problem with dog hunters... they will turn their dogs loose on your property and flush the deer out so they can shoot them... it is an issue and the dnr is powerless to stop it and the 'hunters' will set fire to your property if you turn them in... there are of course a lot of coyote around there, and hence a lot of coy-dog as well... the unfortunate thing is that dog often get shot on peoples property (ours included), sometimes mistaken for coyote, sometimes intentional... its a sad situation as I'm a dog lover as well...
I've never shot a dog and unless it was killing stock or threatening someone, I couldn't imagine doing so. I caught a big german shepard mix dog in a foot trap once. He wasn't much smaller than me. I thought about doing him in rather than trying to let him go and possibly get bitten in the process. Instead I hoped for the best and let him out. He was a sweet dog and proceeded to follow me around for the rest of the day. He was just a big dumb dog that was wandering loose in the countryside. Made me feel a bit guilty for even thinking of killing him. I'm soft when it comes to stray/feral cats too. I've caught them in foot traps and have let them go even though I know they don't belong out there. (letting an angry feral cat out of a foot trap is a bit of challenge in itself) I let them out of the bodygrippers too.. but for some reason those ones never seem to go far. I hear cats taste better than dogs.
Kind of a touchy subject, huh? I'm not a dog lover but I'm not a hater either. I know where I hunt I'm more concerned with my safety than anything else. There's a guy with some Great Pyrenes (sp?) guarding his goats and I've been threatened more than once. For some reason they think they can follow me a mile from thier home and threaten me. So far I've always been able to shout them down but if they follow me to my stand I don't know what I would do, I'm sure they are worth a lot of money. We have a few dogs chasing deer but from what I've seen the deer kinda play with some of them. It takes a pretty serious dog or pack to catch them. Usually they finally get tired and quit chasing them. Some so-called hunters like to pick-up stray dogs (and some not so stray) and use them to chase deer and when they get through with them just leave them in the woods. Of course some of them are just country dogs also that run loose, and they like to run deer too. It's not too bad around here yet but in SE OK there are more guys using dogs (illegally). I use to hear a lot of dogs chasing deer when I hunted down there in the 80's I don't want to shoot someone's dog but if it's him or me my 10MM Kimber will do the talking. I don't think they make enough BBQ to make them good to eat though! LOL! Usually by the time a dog goes wild it's pretty easy to tell. They act different than when they were "tame". They will either run when they see you or attack. lp
you aint a joking. down in my country thats the only way the people hunt. i can count the people i know on 1 hand, excluding mine and my fiances family that hunt legal. the sasd thing is the game wardens know and dnt care. last year ona them pulled up, checked their licenses and heard the dogs jump a deer. he handed back the license and said well sounds like yal jumped 1 guess i better mosey on down the road. i wnt lie to yall. i have run dogs in the past. i grew up around it. but it is not hunting, and i realized that long ago. the dogs hunt. you just shoot. not the way i like to do it. not how i teach people to hunt either. imho you do it the hard way or dnt do it at all, and dang sure dont brag about it
hey I love dogs too! right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy. I actually had the chance to try it once, not bad just different. The texture was similar to coon, for those of you that may have had that (I know that at least one of you Okies have had it). And the flavor is not too bad either.
I wouldn't mind trying dog. I would really like to try horse. Madhunter, have you really tried it? If so, where?
Could you sell a Coyote to the Asian people referenced? Coyote's look like dogs and you would be making money on a natural resource that needs to be culled. I think I might get a new Alphamax with coyote meat in China town.
I used to work in Seattle and we had a great number of SE Asians at the company I worked for. One day after all the joking around I approached a older guy and asked about trying it and the next time he had it (and they don't all the time) he brought some for me to try. Oh I and I would really like to try horse too
[you aint a joking. down in my country thats the only way the people hunt. i can count the people i know on 1 hand, excluding mine and my fiances family that hunt legal. the sasd thing is the game wardens know and dnt care. last year ona them pulled up, checked their licenses and heard the dogs jump a deer. he handed back the license and said well sounds like yal jumped 1 guess i better mosey on down the road. i wnt lie to yall. i have run dogs in the past. i grew up around it. but it is not hunting, and i realized that long ago. the dogs hunt. you just shoot. not the way i like to do it. not how i teach people to hunt either. imho you do it the hard way or dnt do it at all, and dang sure dont brag about it[/quote] [i]I went to Alabama and hunted a couple of years ago. My sis lives there in Faulkville. (People look funny at you when you say that kinda fast. LOL) Anyway, where I hunted they had thousands of acres to gun hunt and doggin is legal there. They also had a few hundred acres set aside for bowhunters. Wouldn't you know it, the only people I saw hunting with dogs were doing it within a quarter mile of the bowhunting only area! It was in a National forest just SE of where my sis lives. Cant' remember the name but Lewis Smith Lake is right on the Southern edge of it. Wish it wasn't so far, I would like ot go back this year. Actually I think I could hunt in my sister's back yard now. [/i]
