Coyote Poacher Kills Dog - Chatham Area

[dilly]

The original poster (Dave-Ash Boogaart) has been an active member of the 519 Hunting and Fishing group on Facebook for 4 years. If this was a hoax, it would be blatantly obvious to anyone in that neighbourhood as the location of his parents' home is posted (see photos for exact location of the incident). I doubt someone would be an active member for 4 years (posting about hunting and fishing) and then decide to create a hoax. Look him up if you're a member of the group.

I believe this is a real incident and one that tugged hard on my heart strings, which is why I chose to share it here. Someone out there knows something...

Understood...man, that sucks.

[canadaman30]

He is not a hunter, he's a trespassing scumbag. People like that deserved to be KO'ed

[Snowwalker]

You've taken out enough members to vouch for you. I on the other hand have posted pics only to be accused of recycling game for the photo op LOL.

Sure. But my game picture record sucks..

Just too busy enjoying it all I guess.

[SongDog]

So sad. That is my worst fear, I've seen vehicles stop on the road when my dog is going across a field. Makes me almost feel sick thinking about it

If they were able to find the drag mark down to the rail line, where did it go after that? Unless the shooter had an atv/sled on the rail tracks I'd think they would be able to follow tracks back to another property or truck tracks and someone might have seen it.

I really hope they find their dog and this dirtbag that shot it, Accident or not, needs to be held accountable. More bad press for hunters.

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[rick_iles]

Just to say first that loosing a beloved pet is very hard. Sorry to hear about it.

But now I will be the devil's advocate for a second. Since this came off of Facebook can anyone find a alternative source to the story.....

If it's a Anti-hunting hoax we are only helping by calling out the "Hunter". If it was a real event there should be other sources to backup the Facebook post.

I think age and betrayal/hoaxes made me doubt many more things these days, then I would have in the past

This is definitely not a hoax.
The MNRF are aware who this group of guys are. Just a matter of investigating it.

[Greenhorn]

My dog accidentally killed a neighbours ferret . I brought it back alive , buy very sorry.

[Snowwalker]

What are the chances it's not a case of mistaken the dog for a coyote?

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

So many things wrong with what happened. I hope the person that killed the dog owns up to the mistake. I would loose my shytt if someone shot my dog!

On a side note I gave up coyote hunting in Essex county & sold my .223. It was getting impossible to secure permission with the urban sprawl we are seeing in this county. Farmers have had too many bad experiences like this one & turn you down when you ask. I focus on deer hunting in 92B instead.

[Couliewalker]

The perpetrator of this crime is no more a hunter than I am a hockey player just cause I wear a maple leaf sweater.I wish people would stop calling him that.He is a criminal and has committed a crime the moment he thought about trespassing even before he pulled the trigger then fled the scene.Accident or not.Someone knows something,you owe it to the sport and true hunters to come forward.It is in the best interest of everyone.
People have been shot "mistaken" for game animals and have not faced any consequences.In a case not long ago was not a bow hunter shot and killed by a man with a rifle shooting from his truck who swore he was shooting at a deer.I thought rifle hunting deer in S Ont was illegal,shotguns only.That guy was charged and it then disappeared from the headlines.

[benjhind]

This one stings because just 2 weeks ago a group was calling coyotes 150 yards from my house. My coyote-sized dog was going mental and I'm glad I was outside to hear it and get him inside. I consider him fairly well-trained, but asking him not to leave the back yard for an injured rabbit a short distance away is a lot. My backyard is a woodlot, and they were hunting the next field over.

The hunters were across the property line and had permission from my neighbour. They did everything right.

I'm glad so many of you are so confident. A coyote-sized dog moving across a field at 300 yards in the early morning half-light, while you're squinting through a scope with your heart beating heavy... I'm not as confident. I've seen black coyotes, blonde coyotes, and coyotes you'd swear were interbred with dogs (which were sent away for DNA analysis and determined to not have dog DNA).

In this case, though, it was broad daylight and the poachers did not ask permission. Had they bothered to do so, they would have met the dog that they eventually killed and known to look for it.