Re: Re: [PyrNet-L] Health: Care: Snakes

["Cherokee Rose Plantation" <kingr@mail.valuu.net>]

In the event you've never lived in South GA (county residence, six miles
from the nearest "village"), you may not know that a baby's first gift is a
shotgun.  Seriously, guns are legal--mine are registered and I have a gun
permit for the county in which I live.  Georgia may have some laws you don't
understand or like, but they're in place.
One comes to mind in particular--if a dog strays onto your property (or any
animal--cat, horse, etc.)--if they do harm to your crops or animals, you are
perfectly legal to shoot them.  Many dogs (including the hunting deer dogs
that are left behind every hunting season) meet this end.

I don't make the laws--they're just here.

I am extremely careful to insure Raider never leaves the property without
me.  Since he's the only Pyr for hundreds of miles, everyone knows who he
belongs to.  I try to make him as safe as I can--fences, gates,
companionship, microchip.  However, if anyone is bent on destroying an
animal, it can be done.  Those people are then dealt with accordingly down
here.

MARTHA KING
Cherokee Rose Plantation
kingr@mail.valuu.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <KGHUBGAS@aol.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [PyrNet-L] Health: Care: Snakes


>
> In a message dated 5/25/99 3:06:27 PM, you wrote:
>
> <<I realize that many of you live in urban areas and either don't like,
don't
> own or want to own a weapon.  I have figured out that the less potentially
> harmful (to my animals) method of snake removal is to shoot it.
> >>
>
> Uhhhh....  check your local laws; around here discharging a firearm
withing
> town limits/ not in a hunting area/ not a hunting weapon (my .38 is not a
> hunting weapon) is against the law. "Urban" has squat to do with it.
>
> I could never shoot a living creature, poisonous or not. Sorry.
>
> Kathy
>
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