Real problem be on the lookout

[GoodOlBoy]

This makes me so mad I could scream, but everybody needs to be aware to protect themselves and their huntin pups.

Approx three weeks ago while I was sick in bed with bronchitus (sp?) somebody dumped a dog off at my house. This is not all that unusual an occurance and my wife just told me that the dog was "scared" and wouldn't come close to anybody. I didn't think much of it. So Thursday night my grandmother tells me this dog has been stalking her when she goes outside. She will be walking around and when she turns around the dog is 20-30 feet behind her watching her intently. Then she points out that Tanner (my mutt) has not been around for a couple of days. Now Tanner has a strange streak in him. He spends a week on my porch, then a week on her porch so when I didn't see him for a few days I didn't think anything about it. I had to work Friday, so Saturday morning I picked up the old 30-30 (we have alot of coyotes in the area) and had the intention of going to see if I could find my dog. At this point I had still never seen the dog that had been dropped off at my place since I leave when its dark and come home when its dark this time of year. I walk outside Saturday morning and am greeted by a growling pit bull that stands about crotch high to me. I lever a shell into the 30-30 and she (yep thats right a female) runs behind my brothers jeep. I step around the end of the house to get a look at her as she runs off to see if she has a collar etc. Instead of running off she bristles up, growls and steps towards me. She shouldn't have done that. I caught her right between the eyes at around 30 yards with a 170gr bullet.

Now understand this I hate having to put down a dog, particularly one in good health. So being HIGHLY ticked off at this point that I had to do this I call the Sheriff's dept. Apparently there is a rash of this in the area. People are breeding pit bulls for fighting, and when the females have been breed to the point that they are worn out, or if the dog starts losing fights they just dump them. They also warned us that these things have been attacking people, killing cattle, killing other dogs, etc. I call my neighbors (who I get to see once in a blue moon because of my work schedual) and sure enough they have had a rash of dead cats, this dog has been threatening them, and attacking their dogs.

I couldn't find Tanner at all. I searched our property, the neighbors, etc. No sign of him. The happy ending is that Sunday morning we were sitting on my grandmothers front porch talking and he came running into the yard from down in the bottoms (bottom land down below the house) soaking wet, and hungry as all get out, and sans his collar. So I got my pup back. Some of my neighbors weren't so lucky.

Keep a hard eye out in your area.

GoodOlBoy