Closer to home....

[Noseyarentcha]

Barfly, my heart goes out to all of you.
I'm sorry.
No one should have been making assumptions at all.
Truly, we should not have been discussing theories.
We should let the police who are actively working this case do the talking.
We need to be more careful of what we say because parts of this thread will hurt the owner if he sees it.

[krakadawn]

You are mistaken. We were all in the camp at the time, including the dog owner when two members went out to track the missing dog. Normally the owner and another member go out if a dog is not retrieved immediately. That day another member volunteered to search for the dog while the owner stayed in camp. Also, the media and or police got the type of collar wrong as we use only radiotelemetry Dog tracking collars, and not GPS.

Barfly,
Thank you for coming on board with some clarification. Truly a tragedy when this type of thing happens. One has to wonder who else was hunting in the area or....how well do you know your neighbouring camps/hunters
Sorry to read/hear this!

[Gilroy]

You are mistaken. We were all in the camp at the time, including the dog owner when two members went out to track the missing dog. Normally the owner and another member go out if a dog is not retrieved immediately. That day another member volunteered to search for the dog while the owner stayed in camp. Also, the media and or police got the type of collar wrong as we use only radiotelemetry Dog tracking collars, and not GPS.

Sorry to hear about the dog so do you have any idea why this would happen.

Welcome to the forum.

[OneBarfly]

Sorry to hear about the dog so do you have any idea why this would happen.

Welcome to the forum.

I don't know why this person decided that the dog had to be killed. Your guess is as good as mine. Could have been a "day hunter" who felt that his territory was being infringed, a psychopath, a poacher, who knows. I do hope that this person has a big mouth and is discovered.

[sidelock]

I am a member of this group and yes you can hunt in certain parts of the park under a special permit and a regulated hunting camp licence . The dog was a small beagle with a blaze orange radio collar, no mistaking it for anything else. The "friends" who found the dog only did so because it was still wearing the radio collar otherwise it wouldn't have been found. They were out tracking the radio signal with the intention of retrieving a live dog at the time.

Sad set of circumstances indeed, hope they catch the dirt bag and throw the book at him.
On another note, I thought that radio telemetry collars were also recently banned fro use in Canada by our friendly Canadian government.

[Snowwalker]

Sad set of circumstances indeed, hope they catch the dirt bag and throw the book at him.
On another note, I thought that radio telemetry collars were also recently banned fro use in Canada by our friendly Canadian government.

Only some models because of the frequencies they use. Other are allowed because they operate on allowed frequencies. The banned collar in question can be made( at the factory or by a skilled tech) to operate on allowed frequencies. But the company would have to change the model name/number and have it approved by Industry Canada.