It's happened again, and in a Price County area with multiple, recent fatal hound-wolf encounters about which the DNR had posted, to no avail.
And until the state stops paying them $2,500 for each off-leash bear-chasing hound so lost, hunting dog owners in Wisconsin won't stop releasing their animals to chase other wildlife and be overpowered and killed by larger, pack-organized wolves.
This only-in-Wisconsin payment system has been in place since 1985.
Here is a DNR website with minimal information about the hound deaths. The reported death in Price County was the 19th since bear chasing season began 61 days ago.
The bear hunting season began Wednesday, September 4.
Hound owners are eligible for the state reimbursement even if they released the dog into known wolf territory, or near bait which attracts both bears and wolves, or if the owner is a scofflaw, a repeat reimbursement collector, and so on.
The hound killed on 9/6 in Price County was a Plott hound, perhaps like this one:
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| Plott hound |
