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dereel208 wrote:OKAY hound guys. I live and hunt in this region of IDAHO. Pratically my back yard of hunting as it was for Shane. This year we got a chance to make a dent in our problem and the IDFG isn't putting a qouta on them, so if we are really concerned about the future of Hound hunting in Idaho, this is our chance. The Anti's aint ever gonna stop. Nor will they ever run out of money. We should all be looking at this as, THE YEAR, to take back out hunting rights from these 4 Legged critters. Predator Calling, Snaring, etc! Don't be the guy sitting on the couch next spring wondering if other hunters took advantage of this opportunity. Be the guy out there making a dent, as far as I'm concerned we couldn't have enough guys out there working these damn things over this year. Get involved, get off the sidelines. Tell me the last time the American Hunter has ever been given a chance to right a wrong such as this?

Thanks
Dan

Brent Sinclair wrote:Anyone having questions, I'd be more than glad to share what I have found that works for me here....wolves are wolves and they will make a misteak, let your hounds help even out the playin field...they can not resist stoppin where your ol hound just marked a tree!!!!

Good Luck

Marshall wrote:This is what happened to a good friend of mine and a fellow Bgh member. This is horrible and i believe that it needs to be shared so that people can see the devistation that these wolves cause. I dont even know what to say after reading this and seeing these pics. Please pass this on.



I'm mad. And not just a little mad either. Three of the best bear hounds I've ever been lucky enough to own, were killed by federally funded terrorists. Wolves did this while I was bear hunting scarcely ten miles from my house. My dogs were ran down and stretched from end to end. Torn apart with slashing teeth, their skin ripped off in chunks and ate, along with their guts, bones and every other piece they could rip apart before I was able to get to the scene of this ugly crime and run them away. I could smell the dogs before I found them. I could smell the blood and the guts and the death. Ruby had been killed first, there wasn't much left of her. A bare spine was all that held together her front and her hind end. They'd chewed many of her ribs off, down to the backbone. As for Candy, they'd only just begun on her, tearing into her side and chest cavity, guts and organs pulled out onto the ground. They hadn't had a chance to eat much of her before I arrived. She was gruesomely contorted, silently conveying the horrible way she died by the teeth of those wolves. I found Josey 700 yards away. The wolves had tore him up really bad but he was still alive. Although he was rushed to the vet, he died of his wounds. So there it is. All of this took place in no more than fifteen or twenty minutes from the time the wolves came in on my dogs while they were trailing a bear. I couldn't have gotten there any quicker.



As I sat beside my two dead hounds on the hillside I looked out over the beauty of the mountains and the bright blue, cloudless sky. I could hear birds singing and the rustling of the wind as it rolled through the pines. It was a beautiful day but the wolves had put a bloody stain on the land and made these mountains ugly to me. In the Clearwater country of Idaho, where I grew up hunting and running hounds, there is now an uneasiness. All the land can feel it and I can feel it too. This whole scene sickened me and galvanized my deep, deep disdain for the wolf.



Some people seem to think that houndsmen treat their hounds more like a tool than a dog. I assure you that this is not the case. These dogs, that the wolves ate, were part of my family. From the time they were born, they spent a lot of time in the house, sometimes sleeping on the couch or maybe on the dogbed beside my recliner in the living room. I couldn't move without them making sure they could come along with me. They were glad to see me arrive home from work, and they didn't like it when I left them home. These hounds were just the same as anyone else's pet, like your pet, a true part of the family. These dogs didn't deserve to die in such a gruesome way, being torn apart and eaten while they were still alive. No dog does.



What really makes me angry is those who would say that it's a risk that all houndsman take when they unclip the dogs; that by turning our hounds loose, we are putting them in harms way and by doing so we somehow value our dogs less than other dog owners. Houndsman, and the the hounds we hunt with, share the same fundamental yearning in our soul to pursue the wild places. You can't force a hound to chase after a bear or cougar, it's been bred into them for thousands of years. We all realize that there are many inherent dangers when it comes to bear or cougar hunting, however, prior to 1995, having our hounds killed by wolves was not one of those dangers. It was then that this exotic species was introduced to Idaho. The wolves are killing these dogs only because they are occupying the same space. And, frankly these wolves shouldn't be in these mountains in the first place. My dogs are dead, and the fault doesn't lie with the hound or the houndsmen. It lies squarely with the wolves who killed and ate my dogs, and with those who supported, and continue to support, the introduction of this exotic species into an area where it had never roamed before. Never roamed, because the timber wolf that inhabited this area many years ago was a much smaller sub-species than the Canadian grey that we are now plagued with.

nuttybuddy wrote:Just got news that Steve Schilling had two fine hounds killed last Saturday near Camp 58 up out of Harpster, Idaho. He and his family and friends have been especially hard hit by this out of control wolf situation......they had five killed in one whack just a couple years ago. Something has to be done. Anyone with any realistic ideas on what to do? Greg

not color blind wrote:

Brent Sinclair wrote:Anyone having questions, I'd be more than glad to share what I have found that works for me here....wolves are wolves and they will make a misteak, let your hounds help even out the playin field...they can not resist stoppin where your ol hound just marked a tree!!!!

Good Luck

Brent (or anyone else that knows), let everyone that can legally help control these critters, know what works best for you.