Feral dogs??

Hey There Silverado7....I always take the time to view your awesome photos.

Makes me homesick for the western provinces!
Cape Breton was the vacation spot of choice this summer. We drove the Cabot Trail recently.
Next year I want to camp at Meat Cove, on the northern tip, and do some sea kayaking too.

No complaints other than, the f*&^)$# taxes, & the range rules are "draconian," compared to what I became accustomed too in Alberta.

I find myself range practicing alot more with pistol & rimfire rifle lately...

You get drawn for elk or anything else, this year?

Note: I understand your viewpoint bone-collector, there is always some-one who thinks, rabid, pack running, flea bitten, lawless mutts are still man's best friend, innocently curled up at thier feet, near the fireplace.
I once went on a purge, of the Frog Lake area, near Silverado7 and was unsuccessful. I just wondered if anyone had any good 'combat stories' to make me feel any better and bemoan my move east!

PS: That Frog Lake triangle, (triangle of two native settlements and a remote livestock pasture)reminds me of the weird beautiful field we stumbled across.
With an 800 meter open field, and a big BIG tree near the middle, about 7-8 feet wide at the trunk!
It seemed like a scene out of some Rudyard Kipling novel....

Cheers..........:)
 
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got a moose draw(mike) and I got my mulie draw. Took a decent 10 point WT last year and a 4x5 mulie and a cow elk... still got some eating to do :)
come on out the steaks are on me!!
 
Been to Barhead lately Silverado 7? I read that finally the Alberta government, declared escaped wild boar, officially, a province wide pest.

Thanks for the invite, you got me drooling for those bison burgers in my freezer!

Oh by the way, my avatar is the fella downstairs, hanging off my wall.
Yep, he's from North Battleford!
 
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the one from your Sask trip?
Heard that there are a few boars running round mayerthorpe...maybe those ones made it to Barrhead??? Have to do some checking. give me something to shoot in the summer! :D:D
 
oopswasthatyourdog? said:
Winter is the biggest killer of deer in Quebec at a close second is ferral dogs. :mad: 'Nuff said :sniper:
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Winter is the biggest killer of everything here too he just needs to find a big bull elk :D (inside joke)

but really.... ferral dogs are that much of a problem? what do the regs say about them?
Here it is wolves. And with the snow in 06/07 the wolves had no problem hammering big game. Took a huge one last year on our elk trip to help even things up.
 
A cattleman association

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but really.... ferral dogs are that much of a problem? what do the regs say about them? QUOTE]
At the time, about 2002/03, I heard through the local grapevine, that free running, packs of dogs were accosting non-resident black bear, bow hunters, and local livestock.
(Calving time & spring season hunters)

This was in the area of my previous post. It was on privately owned, pasture land, so the Livestock Act gives rights to stock owners, or those working, on thier behalf.

I did some research, and well timed, in advance, planning with the appropriate people.
Turned out to be a no-show for the four legged feinds.
But I did get to view a little bit of rural Alberta, I never had previously seen before.

This fact alone made it a worth while trip.
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sounds fair to 'whack em' on private land with permission. But to hold back from shooting them if they were attacking wild game would be another thing.
This is why they are called ferral and not native to the land. Boars are fair game here and if 'ferral dogs' aren't I'm sure they will be soon. The only issue I see is that the local farmers/acerage owner might get upset when fluffy doesn't come home.
 
Dogs on crown running game are fair game for shooting, its in the wildlife regs.

Dogs running cattle on grazing land are fair game as long as you have permission from the cattleman to shoot.
 
Yeah, you are probably right Silverado7, one long winter, and the slate would probably be clean of loose dogs. All the bears, wolves, coyotes, would be fighting over the bones.

If I were you, I would call up the Frog Lake Cattleman Association, to confirm.
 
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Well, in Quebec, I would say the main deer slayers are wolves too, followed by coyotes (winter and early spring) and bear.
In winter time, in deep snow, wolves find it easier to run after a deer than after a moose, they are smart opportunists.
Since about 10-15 years, we can't shoot feral (or loose) dogs at sight. You must call the conservation agents who can shoot them.
It is also illegal to leave a dog on it's own in a zone where big games may be.
One thing is to be precised here; most of what we call here "feral dogs" are in fact nothing more than house (or farm) dogs left on their own in a zone where big game lives. By definition, these are not real feral dogs.
 
Understood, but in the rest of Canada, the Livestock Act is a federal piece of legislation adhered to on private property.

Feral or loose dogs=same to myself, but then again I had good freinds who raised expensive Arabian horses. The definition is mere semantics.
 
Well, of course, before, we used to shoot them... especially in the south shoreof Montreal...
And personaly, I'm not against it, even if I own a dog myself (a hunting dog).
Why it might shock so many people is the fact that they "humanize" their dogs, and think they are their equal.... sick, sad world...
 
Brutus said:
Note: I understand your viewpoint bone-collector, there is always some-one who thinks, rabid, pack running, flea bitten, lawless mutts are still man's best friend, innocently curled up at thier feet, near the fireplace.
I once went on a purge, of the Frog Lake area, near Silverado7 and was unsuccessful. I just wondered if anyone had any good 'combat stories' to make me feel any better and bemoan my move east!

PS: That Frog Lake triangle, (triangle of two native settlements and a remote livestock pasture)reminds me of the weird beautiful field we stumbled across.
With an 800 meter open field, and a big BIG tree near the middle, about 7-8 feet wide at the trunk!
It seemed like a scene out of some Rudyard Kipling novel....

Cheers..........:)
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Keep in mind itr isn't always the rabid, pack running, flea bitten, lawless mutts fault, its the rabid, pack running, flea bitten, lawless mutts owners fault and the stupid mutt knows no better.

Five St. Bernards chewed the crap out of my Grampa's heifer one summer. He took a picture of them laying in the bucket of his Cockshutt and of the chewed up hereford. The heifer survived, the dogs well........nuff said. Had a lot of feral mutts running around home. Not saying any more beyond that.
 
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