Hunter saves deer after brutal dog attack
Created: 08/09/2022, 06:15
By: Verena Moeckl
Death throes: A roebuck was seriously injured by a dog in Sulzemoos near the Easter campground.
The local hunter, Andreas Wallner, ended the suffering of the wasting wild animal.
© Jagdschutz- und Jägerverein Dachau
The daughter of the Sulzemoos hunting leaseholder made a horrific discovery on a hunting ground trip with her father and brother: a badly injured roebuck.
The bite marks indicate that a dog tore the game.
The Dachau hunting club has an urgent appeal.
Sulzemoos – Andreas Wallner could only put the roebuck out of its misery.
The animal lay covered in bites and flies on a harvested field near the Easter campfire site in Sulzemoos, Wallner's hunting ground.
tortured to death.
"I had to fight back tears," says the 52-year-old.
Levinia, the eleven-year-old daughter of the Sulzemoos hunting leaseholder, discovered the badly injured roebuck on a hunting trip with her father and her 13-year-old brother on Sunday.
The animal had made noises distorted by pain.
"It was brutal for my kids to watch," says Wallner.
His daughter and son cried a lot.
Such an incident would still affect him weeks later.
Jäger had to fight back tears
The Jagdschutz- und Jägerverein Dachau is certain that a dog was behind the attack.
The bite marks and injuries inflicted on the deer are typical for domestic dogs, says the club's chairman, Ernst-Ulrich Wittmann.
"The dogs usually grab the deer from behind and open it" - a nicer word for the bestial way in which the domestic animals tear up the deer.
"Dogs haven't learned how to kill." The result: the cunning wild animals die slowly and painfully.
Hunting club has urgent appeal
Just like the roebuck lying at Wallner's feet.
Unable to sit up let alone move at all.
"The animal didn't stand a chance." The legs were torn open, the bare flesh gaping out of the wounds.
"A horrible sight."
Wallner suspects that the attack must have taken place a few hours earlier.
The field where the poor animal fought to his death is not far from a popular walking route.
Wallner says that if someone had discovered the injured roebuck, they would have known about it.
“Everyone in our village knows me.” He has been a hunting tenant in Sulzemoos for eleven years.
“Dogs must be on a leash!
Because once the hunting instinct has been awakened, it is not so easy to get it out of them again.
"
Chairwoman of the Dachau Hunters' Association, Ernst-Ulrich Wittmann
But Wallner was not informed.
Neither from a passer-by nor from the owner of the dog that killed the deer.
He couldn't understand that.
"You can't just leave this animal to its fate." Of course, no dog owner would intentionally let his pet loose on a deer, says Wallner.
If such an incident should nevertheless occur, it is important to inform the hunting tenants or the police.
This could then locate the responsible hunters.
Hunters demand: Dog owners must take responsibility
In the Dachau district, dog attacks on wild animals have increased in recent years.
Andreas Wallner only found two dead fawns in a meadow at the edge of the forest in June.
Again near the Easter fire place.
“The numbers are increasing, especially in areas close to villages and towns,” says Wallner’s fellow hunter, Ernst-Ulrich Wittmann.
It is particularly critical during the rearing period.
A particularly tragic case occurred in Günding last May.
There a dog tore open the abdominal wall of a pregnant deer.
The unborn fawns died in agony (we reported).
Hunter: The dog must learn to obey!
The chairman of the Dachau hunters' association wants to raise awareness among dog owners.
"I have a pleading appeal: dogs must be on a leash!
Because once the hunting instinct has been awakened, it is not so easy to get it out of them again.
Once dogs figure out how to hunt wild animals and are successful at it, they develop fun and will do it again and again.” According to Wittmann, a leash is no longer enough in such cases.
Then you also need a muzzle.
The Sulzemooser hunter Andreas Wallner sees it a little more relaxed.
For him it is enough if dog owners educate and train their animals properly.
“The leash is not the main problem.
The dog has to learn to obey.” And the owner has to take responsibility.
Please advise
The hunters' association asks people who have seen something suspicious or who can provide relevant information to contact Andreas Wallner on 0172/595 54 40.
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