Matt McKinney
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Greene County Ohio
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Agreed...Always makes me laugh when the first thing that comes to an "Adults" mind is to fight. I havent been in a fight since i was probably 15, and Im 35 now. Im not gonna fight someone over a dog so I can possibly go to jail, and be away from my kids and my wife. It sucks to have your dog hit, and a good one is hard to replace, but you cant replace time lost with your family. And you may end up picking a fight with the wrong person and get your A$$ handed to you or worse, end up dead.
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Originally posted by Nat Thomas
So if an elderly woman is driving a full size truck and hits a dog (I've hit a dog in a full size truck and you can't distinguish between a coon, possum, or medium size dog) you are saying that its ok to break her back window out because she didn't stop when a stranger tried to wave her down on an old back road late at night? Y'all act like everyone in the country knows exactly what Coonhunters are and do. If my daughter, mom, or son for that matter try to get flagged down by a stranger on an old country road I will encourage them to drive away as fast as possible and if you are ignorant enough to think that it's ok to bust out their back window because of this, you don't deserve to own hounds or represent our sport.
Accidents happen guys... We take a chance every single time we cut a dog loose and 99.9% of the time, a dog getting hit on the road is going to be purely accidental. The way you represent yourself after the fact shows your true character. I've had dogs hit and I've had someone not stop. The first thing that crossed my mind was making sure the DRIVER was ok and if they drove off and didn't stop then oh well, accidents happen and them stopping on an old country road at 1am isn't gonna change a dang thing.
I'm not perfect, I don't claim to be nor will I ever be but I can honestly say that reading some of y'all's posts and the way you keep trying to justify busting out someone's window or cussing them out over hitting a dog WITH A VEHICLE.... ON THE ROAD... Where vehicles belong, not dogs, makes me worry about the future of our sport with such piss poor representatives. It will never be ok to retaliate or bust someone's window out for not stopping when they hit a dog. How do they know you didn't throw something in the road to get them to stop so you can rob them? Or worse? We don't live in a perfect world where crimes against people don't happen and we don't live in a world where this isn't a real threat. Just like dogs getting treed in someone's yard or a dog going up around the house without barking. If a father with kids inside sees strangers in his yard in the middle of the night with bright lights shining around his house he had every right in the world to come out with a shotgun wondering what the hell you are doing on his property, it's called protecting person and property. Do the hunters mean harm? More than likely not but how is he supposed to know that? Do we as Coonhunters have any right to get mad and belligerent because someone came out hollering and threatening the trespassers on his land that could possible mean harm to his family or property? Absolutely not. We are trespassing on his land in the middle of the night with bright lights shining around his property. He has every right to try and scare away what he perceives as a threat.
A little over a year ago there was a elderly father and his daughter who was his caretaker tied up in their farmhouse on an old desolate road, robbed, raped, and murdered. When we live in a world where thing like this are real occurrences you have to be mindful of the perception we give when we try to flag someone down on an old gravel road or when we go up around someone's house trying to catch a dog in the middle of the night. I will fight for Coonhunters rights until the end but I will side with the driver and the homeowner every single time on this issue.
Ignorant comments like "they better drive off because if they hit my dog they are gonna be sorry" or "he didn't stop so I threw a rock thru his back window" or "if he comes out with a gun when I'm trying to catch my dog in his barn at 2am he better hope I don't have a gun or shoot first" #1 make us look like jacked up inbred hillbillys, #2 give good people who could carry some weight in the laws that govern our sport or own thousands of prime hunting ground, the impression that Coonhunters are violent outlaws and there's no way they are allowed on their property and #3 actually make it worse when it comes to people stopping when a dog is struck or when we are trying to catch a dog on private land.
How many people do you know that will still stop when they hit a dog and they've heard numerous Coonhunters talk about how they pity the fool that accidentally hits their dog.... On roads... Where vehicles travel... And where dogs shouldn't be.... If you are so worried about your dog getting hit then be a responsible dog owner/trainer/handler and use an e-collar to break the dog from crossing around cars, from crossing The road at all, don't hunt woods that have the possibility of getting a dog struck, or watch your garmin and keep up with the dog. It's not someone else's fault that your dog ran onto the road when they are trying to get home from work at 3am... More than likely its an accident and more than likely it could have been prevented with proper training or proper use of the tools that are available to us via Garmin.
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