#3114719 - 01/08/13 01:09 PM
Dog Question
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CPerkins
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Registered: 09/07/05
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Loc: Collierville, TN
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Due to reading a popular thread in the serious hunting section I have a question about stray dogs. What is the ruling on shooting strays on your property. By stray, I mean dogs on the property without collars.
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#3114759 - 01/08/13 01:41 PM
Re: Dog Question
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trealtree
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Registered: 09/29/04
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Loc: Middle Tennessee
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TWRA does not have a dog hunting season. Please refer to TCA 44-8-208 for Dogs at large aka leash law
and Here is the TCA for your question asked above about shooting a dog.
§ 39-14-205. Intentional killing; police dogs; justifiable killing
(a)(1)(A) It is an offense to knowingly and unlawfully kill the animal of another without the owner's effective consent.
(B) A violation of subdivision (a)(1)(A) is theft of property, graded according to the value of the animal, and punished in accordance with § 39-14-105.
(2) In determining the value of a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal or police horse under § 39-14-105, the court shall consider the value of the police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal or police horse as both the cost of the animal and any specialized training the animal received.
(b) A person is justified in killing the animal of another if the person acted under a reasonable belief that the animal was creating an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to that person or another or an imminent danger of death to an animal owned by that person. A person is not justified in killing the animal of another if at the time of the killing the person is trespassing upon the property of the owner of the animal. The justification for killing the animal of another authorized by this subsection (b) shall not apply to a person who, while engaging in or attempting to escape from criminal conduct, kills a police dog that is acting in its official capacity. In that case the provisions of subsection (a) shall apply to the person.
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1989 Pub.Acts, c. 591, § 1; 1996 Pub.Acts, c. 927, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 1, 1996; 2004 Pub.Acts, c. 957, § 1, eff. June 15, 2004; 2007 Pub.Acts, c. 466, § 1, eff. July 1, 2007; 2008 Pub.Acts, c. 1172, § 1, eff. July 1, 2008.
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#3114765 - 01/08/13 01:44 PM
Re: Dog Question
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scn
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Registered: 02/05/03
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Loc: Brentwood, TN US
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There is nothing in any TWRA code that authorizes the killing of any dog.
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#3117710 - 01/10/13 12:27 PM
Re: Dog Question
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LSUtigers
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All stray dog on my property have rabies symtoms.
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#3117848 - 01/10/13 02:18 PM
Re: Dog Question
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oldmanelrod
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Loc: TN/AL state line
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One of my father's "stray dogs" dogs was shot by a deer hunter on our farm. We were working on a fence row in our woods and the dog wadered off not far from where we were working. A hunter shot it. We heard the shot and looked for our dog. Daddy did not keep collors on our dogs becasue he had one get hung on a fence when it's collor got caught on the fence. The dog was on our land when it was shot and the hunter was on our land when he shot it. Needless to say that person no longer hunts our farm.
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