beagle paws

"culprit" <culprit.TakeThisOut@flashmail.com> wrote in message
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> <ravenf.TakeThisOut@myway.com> wrote in message
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> > go to www.beaglepaws.com and help save beagles in newoundland canada..
> > beagles are used as hunting dogs and people keep them outdoors and
> > maybe feed them every second day or so to keep their hunting prey
> > instinct.. its devastating what kinds of things the group has too see
> > when doing a rescue..learn more at the web-site.great group and the
> > first of its kind in this provice!!
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> what? they treat hunting dogs like hunting dogs? how terrible!

I believe some of the terrible things would probably include emaciated,
unsocialized, abandoned "retired" dogs, same as we have in the US. Each
year its not uncommon in SC to see extremely emaciated, confused, sickly
hunting dogs who didn't measure up & were left in the woods to fend for
themselves. They become too weak to do anything but amble around,
eventually making their way to the roadside, where they either get lucky &
are picked up or are unlucky and become roadkill. There's a pretty large
group subscribing to the ideas that Beagles shouldn't be fed often, should
*never, ever, ever* be let inside or treated as a pet, should only be
handled by their hunting-owner, etc. all in order to preserve hunting
ability & sense of smell.

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Tara
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Tara writes:

>Each year its not uncommon in SC to see
>extremely emaciated, confused, sickly
>hunting dogs who didn't measure up &
>were left in the woods to fend for
>themselves.

While we will never know for sure,
our late lamented Penelope Beagleburger
appeared to have been an abandoned
hunting dog, given where she was
found (in the Pinelands of SE Burlington
County, NJ) and the fact that she
turned out to have an old bullet wound
in her. But she also seemed to have
been picked up mercifully quickly,
as she was not emaciated or covered
in ticks, etc, etc.

The same cannot be said for several
abandoned pets that we have taken
in at the AAC, a shelter where we DO
nurse many dogs back to health
(and spay/neuter, HW check and
bring up to date for rabies and
distemper, etc ALL of the dogs
we take in). Anyway, we took in
an emaciated parti-color Cocker
found abandoned around an
apartment complex just this past
Wednesday. He is slowly improving
and it could take several
weeks for him to regain all the
weight he needs to.

Yes, some hunters do despicable
things. But you don't have to look
to far to find despicable things
being done to dogs in the urban and
suburban worlds that so often
look down on the rural world.

JohnR
Pit Bull Libertarian

Never sneer at the power of a little
pink squeaky toy!
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