Again, poaching dog chases several deer: dog owner indicated
Created: 01/10/2022, 05:00 AM
From: Christiane Mühlbauer
In the Loisach-Kochelsee-Moor it happens again and again that dogs that are not on a leash smell deer and hunt them - not infrequently with fatal results.
© Symbol photo: Thomas Warnack
In the Loisach-Kochelsee-Moor, a free-roaming dog has once again hunted deer.
This time, however, witnesses called the police.
The dog owner is now held accountable.
Benediktbeuern / Ried - On the holy three king holiday at lunchtime, walkers saw the large, unleashed dog of a woman hunting several deer in the Spatzenpointweg area (community Benediktbeuern), reports the Kochel police.
The witnesses then alerted the police, who found the animal owner in the area a short time later.
It is a 50-year-old from Herrsching, reports the deputy head of the Kochler police, Frank Bentz.
"Your dog hunted deer, but not killed it." The animal owner now receives a complaint under the hunting law.
Again, poaching dog chases several deer: Police assume a high number of unreported cases
As reported, at the beginning of the week strollers discovered the carcass of a deer in Rieder Moos, which had been torn from a poaching dog.
Bentz assumes that the number of unreported free-roaming dogs that hunt deer and then kill, "is relatively high".
Anyone who observes something like this should not hesitate to call the police: "The sooner we find out about it, the greater the chances of being able to hold the animal owner accountable."
District Hunting Association to Impact
When asked about the incidents, Wolfgang Morlang, the chairman of the district hunting association, appeals to all dog owners to leash their animals there. It is not the hunting dog that should be blamed ("The animal follows its hunting instinct"), but the owner, who has to keep the animal responsibly. According to Morlang, the district hunting association is pursuing a concept for a forest in which game stocks play a central role.
Regarding the argument "either the dog kills the game or the hunter shoots it", says Morlang: "Hunters fire a quick shot because the animal shouldn't suffer." A poaching dog would only bite the animal.
"It then dies miserably." A dog would also "hunt what it achieved," says Morlang: "That has a major impact on the ecological balance." because the mother is missing.
The carcass discovered on January 4th was incidentally a doe (i.e. an adult animal) and not, as erroneously reported yesterday, a fawn.
“The goat certainly had fawns,” says hunting tenant Dieter Steffens.
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