Bloodbath in the snow: poaching dogs bite fawn to death - hard agony - hunters horrified

Bloodbath on the Oberammergau Altherrenweg: Wild dogs hunted a fawn and bit it to death.

Oberammergau

- The picture shows the hair on the neck.

The trampled snow cover is soaked with blood.

There are scraps of fur everywhere.

For Dominik Rödel it is immediately clear: there was a tough, long battle here.

The professional hunter analyzes the tracks.

He suspects at least two dogs that were at work here.

In their hunting instinct, they bit a perfectly healthy fawn, around nine months old, to death.

For the hunter it is also clear: this bloodbath could have been prevented.

Rödel discovered the battered animal carcass on Wednesday at lunchtime in the Romanshöhweg - Elawiesen area in Oberammergau.

The Altherrenweg there is a popular gas route.

Up to 100 dogs are out and about on nice days.

If there is just one person walking around free without a leash and not parrying, that is enough to make the accident perfect.

Therefore Rödel can only appeal once more to the common sense of the dog owners: "Please leash your animals."

I'm not interested in the financial damage at all.

I am concerned with the enormous suffering and pain inflicted on the animal in its last fight.

Professional hunter Dominik Rödel

Because there is a lot of Wiesmahd area on the popular circular route of all places.

The game can find something to eat under the surrounding trees, even in deep snow.

The animals gather there.

But if a dog gets the hunt instinct and chases after the deer, the game has almost no chance in the cold season.

In winter they find it difficult to run away from danger.

The snow is high.

They move very slowly with their hooves - unlike a dog.

With its broad paws it races more easily over the white blanket, quickly catching up with the fleeing game.

Then the massacre begins.

Like on Wednesday.

Rödel regrets that the fawn would have turned into a roebuck in April.

“It was very healthy, good together.” It had to fight for a long time, as evidenced by the amount of blood, the countless paws and the torn fur.

It took several bites of the larynx to end the deer's long suffering.

In the past year, dogs have bitten at least six wild animals

It is not Rödel's first gruesome find.

In the past year, six wild animals have been shown to have been torn from dogs.

On average there are two to three animals a year.

A master has never contacted him afterwards.

Whereby it should often be quite obvious that the four-legged friend has poached - after all, the blood of the game also sticks to the dog's fur.

“I'm not interested in the financial damage at all,” says the professional hunter.

He doesn't care about 250 euros per game.

"I am concerned with the enormous suffering and pain that will be inflicted on the animal in its last fight."

WITNESS CALL

The police got involved because of the poaching in Oberammergau.

She asks for information: Who observed something between January 19 and 20 in the Romanshöhweg - Elawiesen area?

Witnesses should contact the Oberammergau inspection on 0 88 22/94 58 30.

In this context, the police appeal to dog owners to urgently adhere to the leash requirement in this area.