A rare Tamaskan dog was shot and killed by a hunter while walking with her owner and several other dogs and people. The hunter thought she was a wolf.
This dog fortunately survived.
The brown dog in the middle was the victim. He was shot with five bullets as the owner ran towards the hunter, waved his arms and yelled for him to stop. “I thought it was a wolf”, the hunter said when he saw what he had done.
Another dog, with floppy ears, was shot by the same bullet (!) but survived.
This would have been a hunting crime even if it were a wolf.
This dog was running loose near the property when he was shot. A puppy in the photo, he was a much larger adult when he died.
This story is strange as it was a trained K9 police dog who got loose in a densely populated Florida area, pounced an old man, and the man’s son shot the dog, thinking it was a coyote attacking. The strangest part is why a highly trained officer’s dog would be out attacking people.
Articles report the dog as a German shepherd, but he was clearly a Belgian malinois, one of the most popular dogs in the police force and military.
This dog was fortunately brought back home after a DNA test.
This dog was not so lucky, and was apparently never found again.
The dogs were shot while wearing bright orange jackets and the owner, right behind them, a head torch. The hunter stated he saw a pair of eyes with prick ears above, and fired.
A pair of eyes and prick ears (in the dark) was enough.
This husky mix took off with the family’s other dog into the woods, ran onto a hunter’s property, who shot her, thinking she was a coyote chasing deer. Both the hunter and owner were free of charge.
This dog had taken off chasing squirrels and been missing for two days when she was shot.
This family dog, a lab-shepherd mix on vacation with her family, was shot as an alleged wolf. The hunter shot her from a car, drove off, and said he was going to “pick it up later”. The dog’s owner said the hunter saw him and took off.
Apparently, the hunter “didn’t know” that there was a cabin just nearby, or that even hunting wolves was illegal at this time.
This dog was shot in the leg, left to bleed to death and found later by another dog owner on a walk.
The dog’s body was found in a wooded area late Wednesday afternoon by a farmer who was walking his own dog.
The same article reports on a case I can’t find with a photo, but where a German shepherd wearing a bright orange hunter’s ribbon, walking with its owner, was shot as a “coyote”.
This last one would have been incredibly unethical and illegal even if it were a wolf hunt, as you never just leave kills in the woods, and one of these dogs was still alive, with a bullet in his spine, and had to be put down.
Strangely, the hunter had apparently fled when he realized they were dogs, fled the scene without checking to see if any of them were alive and suffering, but his brother reported he had shot “wolves” (which he could only have heard from the hunter himself).
He walked free of animal cruelty charges, and was only sentenced to some months of probation and having to cover vet fees for the dog that was euthanized.
The two dogs were a Labrador retriever mix and English mastiff, respectively.
And the following four images I collected in 2014, but I have been unable to find their sources again. While I can’t confirm it, I found them in articles talking about them being shot as wolves or coyotes.
Maybe it’s about time hunters, police officers and others with the power of life and death in their hands, know what the hell they are aiming at before they pull the trigger?
None of these dogs look even remotely like a wolf if you actually know what a wolf looks like, and especially if you are a hunter, you should be able to tell the difference between a sled dog and a grey wolf.
Morphologically, it’s like shooting a horse, believing it to be an elk or something.
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Stupid people don’t need guns. How about we have more gun control and regulations and mandatory classes for any type of weapon? How we stop pretending guns aren’t part of the problem? People are so quick to pull the trigger but not quick to shoulder the blame when something goes wrong.
Absolutely. Let’s not victim-blame. These trigger-happy bastards were not stopped by fluorescent vests or owners screaming at them to stop. They were fine with opening fire at whatever they saw. They were not going to stop to identify the dog, however well educated the public is. Pricked-up ears for frick’s sake. These murderous, negligent people should not have guns, end of story.
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