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Mark Bonokoski - January 16 2010 |
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January 16, 2010 |
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How about a couple more deer stories?
First, a follow-up on Minnie the deer, shot back on Dec. 1, and fodder for columns, commentary, and conflict.
A Cobourg hunter, previously unnamed, was charged with the killing of Minnie the mooch from Madoc. We now know his name is Ron Anderson.
After recently pleading guilty in provincial court, Anderson was fined $2,000 and had his hunting privileges yanked for a year for shooting from a roadway, trespassing while hunting, and then abandoning killed game.
So, enough for that.
Now, how about this one?
Every year, we see television footage of the heroic efforts to save deer that have fallen through the ice, Rice Lake being one of them.
Why not just let the deer drown?
And I will tell you why.
During the Christmas holidays, a deer wandered out onto Baptiste Lake – the lake where I live — and broke its leg on the slick ice not far from shore.
The MNR was called, but the concerned folk of Baptiste Village, many of them hunters, were told not to put the injured animal down with a merciful gun shot to the head, but to let nature take its course.
It took 14 hours for nature to take its course — 14 hours during which the deer needlessly suffered.
Is there not something wrong here?
You tell me. |
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Toronto Sun
Moose Country |
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