Hunters appeal to dog owners: put the dogs on a leash. Recently a dog ran without a leash - with a bad outcome.
Weilheim - Especially in spring, when many wild animals such as deer, birds or rabbits have offspring, walkers, joggers and riders should stay on the trails so as not to disturb the wild animals. Very important: Dogs should be kept on a leash. This is something that hunters like Heinz Dietrich from Unterhausen always demand - but often in vain, as the tenant of a hunting ground near Weilheim reports.
He recently had an incident that made him extremely angry: “At the Hardt, a man let his dog run in the high meadow without a leash. When asked what he was doing there, he got the answer: "The dog is looking for toys." When Dietrich warned the dog owner that fawns were currently being born and that were lying in the meadows, the man had denied this - there was even one no deer. "We discussed back and forth until the man finally got the dog back in the car.
"Then I drove away, but I thought I'd better take a picture of his license plate," says Dietrich. So he turned around - and saw the dog again on the meadow without a leash. "I finally called the police, but they weren't particularly interested," said Dietrich disappointed.
Even worse was an incident on the same evening that his predecessor experienced as a tenant: "He saw a medium-sized black dog chasing a roe deer." When they later searched the area together, they found the roe deer still alive with panic eyes wide open on the floor - she could not get away, had obviously injured her front legs and showed further bite marks.
"We then released the animal from its suffering," says Dietmeier. The worst moment afterwards is always when something suddenly moves under the belly of the dead animal - the unborn offspring, who is also doomed to die. The two hunters finally cut three unborn fawns out of the goat. "It's not a pretty sight, not even for us hunters," emphasizes Dietrich. Hence his appeal: stay on the trails and keep dogs on a leash!
