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11-03-2006, 07:42 AM
Hunter's 3 beagles shot, killed in Pennsylvania
By Karen Kane
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Oct. 30, 2006
<!--textOnly = true and inlineElements = true--><!-- insertinlineAd --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>PITTSBURGH — It was a day off work for Larry Nahay, to be spent in rustic climes with a few buddies and his faithful companions at his side. Minnie, Millie, and Maddy, purebred beagles who loved nothing better than a trek through the woods with their master, were as excited as ever.
Nahay and his troupe had landed in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, Pa. Since it's small game season, they were set on hunting rabbits.
Now, Nahay and the Pennsylvania State Police, as well as the Pennsylvania Game Commission, are hunting for game of the two-legged variety: the person who fired multiple shots at point-black range into Minnie, Millie and Maddy, killing the dogs.
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<!-- END INLINE UNIT -->"I just can't believe that something like this happened. I've been hunting since I was about 10 years old, and I never even heard of somebody doing something like this," said Nahay, 49.
State police confirmed that Nahay was lawfully hunting in a non-posted tract of woods on Oct. 27 when an unknown person used a handgun to slaughter the beagles.
Nahay is offering a $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the killer. Likely charges to be filed are cruelty to animals and interfering with hunting, violations of the state crimes and games codes, respectively.
The hunting party had gotten permission to hunt in the woods earlier in the day from the farmer who owns the land.
"The guy was a relative of one of my friends," Nahay said.
Armed with 12-gauge shotguns, the group was in a valley when the dogs caught the trail of a rabbit. Baying and running, they pursued the trail up a hill while Nahay and his friends waited below.
All of a sudden, they heard the sounds of shots being fired: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
"We took off up the hill," he said.
As he was running toward the sound of the shots, Nahay realized that he was no longer hearing the characteristic baying of his dogs.
He began calling the animals: "Millie! Maddy! Minnie!"
Within minutes, he found the dogs dead, lying next to each other within a 10-foot bloody circle. But he saw no one around.
"Whoever did this murdered them. He slaughtered them. They were shot at point-blank range," he said.
Nahay said he was sure that the culprit couldn't have felt threatened by the animals.
"They were friendly," he said. "They were used to being around people. Heck, they don't even come up to the middle of your shins."
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By Karen Kane
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Oct. 30, 2006
<!--textOnly = true and inlineElements = true--><!-- insertinlineAd --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>PITTSBURGH — It was a day off work for Larry Nahay, to be spent in rustic climes with a few buddies and his faithful companions at his side. Minnie, Millie, and Maddy, purebred beagles who loved nothing better than a trek through the woods with their master, were as excited as ever.
Nahay and his troupe had landed in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, Pa. Since it's small game season, they were set on hunting rabbits.
Now, Nahay and the Pennsylvania State Police, as well as the Pennsylvania Game Commission, are hunting for game of the two-legged variety: the person who fired multiple shots at point-black range into Minnie, Millie and Maddy, killing the dogs.
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<!-- END INLINE UNIT -->"I just can't believe that something like this happened. I've been hunting since I was about 10 years old, and I never even heard of somebody doing something like this," said Nahay, 49.
State police confirmed that Nahay was lawfully hunting in a non-posted tract of woods on Oct. 27 when an unknown person used a handgun to slaughter the beagles.
Nahay is offering a $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the killer. Likely charges to be filed are cruelty to animals and interfering with hunting, violations of the state crimes and games codes, respectively.
The hunting party had gotten permission to hunt in the woods earlier in the day from the farmer who owns the land.
"The guy was a relative of one of my friends," Nahay said.
Armed with 12-gauge shotguns, the group was in a valley when the dogs caught the trail of a rabbit. Baying and running, they pursued the trail up a hill while Nahay and his friends waited below.
All of a sudden, they heard the sounds of shots being fired: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
"We took off up the hill," he said.
As he was running toward the sound of the shots, Nahay realized that he was no longer hearing the characteristic baying of his dogs.
He began calling the animals: "Millie! Maddy! Minnie!"
Within minutes, he found the dogs dead, lying next to each other within a 10-foot bloody circle. But he saw no one around.
"Whoever did this murdered them. He slaughtered them. They were shot at point-blank range," he said.
Nahay said he was sure that the culprit couldn't have felt threatened by the animals.
"They were friendly," he said. "They were used to being around people. Heck, they don't even come up to the middle of your shins."
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