Defenders of Wildlife

[DetectorGuy]

A couple years ago I was in the house and the neighbor called my wife and said that there are two "wild dogs" heading towards our house and that these two "Wild dogs" just pulled two rabbits (at least part of them) out of her rabbit hutch. My wife yelled in the front door "Get the gun" 3 times. By the time she said it the third time I had the 12 guage in my hand and running out the front door. She told me that they were behind the house. I went back there and saw these two "wild dogs" snapping the necks of our geese (nine dead by this time). They were just running from bird to bird and killing it before running to another. They had no intention of dragging them off for food but were hell bent on killing. Within 30 seconds of seeing this I shot one, it yelped once and rolled once before running off. I shot the second one a few seconds later and it yelped and ran off too. I went out to look at the dead geese and there were 13 large dead geese laying there. With all the comotion the neighbors (with two small kids ages 4 and 6) came over to see what was happening. I could not get over what would have happened if the "wild dogs" had seen these small kids before the geese. I called the sheriffs department and told them that there are some "wild dogs" that just killed a bunch of my geese and that I was worried about the neighbor kids. The deputy asked "where are these wild dogs now?" I told him that they ran into the cornfield after I shot them both. He paused and told me "you want some good advice sir?" I said sure. He said "we never had this conversation...Get my drift?" I said "ok, good-bye". I called the DNR agent for our area and told him the whole story and he told me that I did the right thing and that "Wild dogs" this far south should be nuetralized as they would be up to no good this far south.

A couple days later I took my daughter out on the fourwheeler around the perimeter of this cornfield to see if I could smell them in the hot sun. I told my daughter to keep smelling and that when we get down wind of them, we will smell them and walk in to get a closer look. She told me (in a way only a 8 year old girl could) that "if it smells like fruits and vegtables, then it must be the neighbor kids because they eat healthier than I do".