Fawn Mortality

[chris lavoie]

Last year as I was driving a logging road I came up to a Red Fox carring a fawn in its mouth. I jumped out of the truck and caught up to him. I got to about 10 feet of him and all he did was keep walking down the road with his prize. The fawn was almost as big as him. I always carry a camera on my belt so I took a perfect picture. I figured that the Fox came across the scent of the doe just before giving birth and stayed with her till she dropped the fawns.

[chris lavoie]

Two weeks after the fox episode I saw a german shepard carring a fawn in it's jaws running across a field. I ran to the fence line and took a picture of the dog with it's catch, which I gave to a C.O. The dog owner was charged with letting his dog running loose. I saw the dog take the fawn to it's owners house.

[DouglasSpear]

I think it's stupid for the owner of the dog to get charged or fined, honestly. Domestic animal doesn't mean it loses it's instinct. Now if it were the dog attacking a child, that's different - because they live around and with humans. But an animal killing an animal and the owner gets charged or fined is ridiculous. Can you post the pictures?

[Brow Tine]

survival of the fittest

[chris lavoie]

I thought it was a prize to see the "food chain" first hand!! One time while on a bear bait I saw a pine marten sneak in and snatch a red squirrel. Two days later, while a PINE MARTEN was in the bait, a BOB CAT snuck up and caught the pine marten. I never got a bear on that stand but what I saw was enough of a memory!! Watching things like this is why I now carry a camara at all times.

[DouglasSpear]

survival of the fittest

No kidding, I agree.

[chris lavoie]

One fall season we were out checking our bear bait run. It was the day before bear season. We just came out of a curve and there was a 250lb. bear flopping around on his or her back, in obvious distress in the middle of the gravel road. We abruply stopped, nearly running it over. We had no firearms with us, just a shovel and a rake. We got out of the truck expecting it to run. It did not!! The animal was near death.We had to dispatch the bear, as we couldn't stand watching it suffer. We had to hit it over the head with the shovel. We brought the bear back to camp where we had a walk in cooler. The next day the CO. came to get it to do an outopsy. After a week we got a phone call saying the bear was mauled by a much larger bear and ran out in the road to get away from the the agressor. It was quite an experience!!

[cjg]

We had to dispatch the bear, as we couldn't stand watching it suffer. We had to hit it over the head with the shovel.

First time I've heard of anyone killing a bear with a shovel

[chris lavoie]

It didn't take much to put it out of it's misery as the the bear was near death when we came up on it. Weird things happen out there in the forest, you just have to be lucky enough to be there when it happens.

[anyuta]

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