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Show Dogs Kill 19 Deer In Two Days In Duchesne Area By Elden Wilcken Renegade dogs took quite a toll of the suffering deer herd during the past week. One morning slaughter by two such dogs accounted for five head of deer that were dragged down and eaten on before the victims were dead. During the past week three dogs working together have killed 15 head of deer that are known of and perhaps as many more that were not found by the men who finally succeeded in killing the culprits. The three dogs, ranging from the Strawberry Straw-berry River, where it meets Highway 40 west of Duchesne , to the Blackburn Draw, nine or ten miles to the west, have caused great damage among thu deer fighting for survival in the deepest snow this country has known -since 1909. One dog was killed by Weston Wes-ton Bates, a rancher from alon;; the area hunted by the dogs, several days before the last two were finally killed by Dave Thomas. Allen Bond, local game club president, and Gilbert Hor-rocks. Hor-rocks. The dogs would chase the deer until they caught them and drag them down in the deep snow and proceed to eat on the deer with the animal still alive Several deer were chased over cliffs in their efforts to escaoe the dogs. They would be killed or so badly crippled they died Many of the carcasses found by the hunters were only partly eaten with big holes in the hind legs. Others were found still living that had been eaten on by the vicious killers. Mr. Thomas said a small yel low dog wbuld harry the deer at its head until his larger partner part-ner could clamp his teeth into the' deer and drag it down. H3 said they had followed the trsck where a deer had dragged the larger dog more than a half mile before it finally gave out and fell to the dogs. The snow was crusted enough to hold the dogs, but the deer would break through. The three men found five head of deer that were killed by the last two dogs in one morning before the dogs wer shot. |