Bow Hunter Kills Puppy; No Charges Filed

ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio - WLWT.com

Police have a warning for pet owners after a 7-month-old puppy was killed by a bow hunter.

Adams County officers said that in that case, there's nothing the owners can do about it.

Pet owners Bob and Karen Wolke said they can't understand why anybody would have hurt their hunting dog Joobaby.

The Wolkes said something must have went very wrong in the woods near their home a couple of days ago.

"(I was) playing with the grandkids, riding go-carts like (they are) doing out here right now, and I heard my dog hollering back here," Bob Wolke said.

He said he went running through the woods, searching for the dog, but all he found was a bow-hunter, who said he'd seen the dog but it had run off.

The family conducted a search for two days, and finally found a blood trail where the dog had been shot to its final resting place. The family said someone had shot the dog with an arrow.

"They had picked her up, and carried her down the creek and put her underneath some logs," Wolke said.

Karen Wolke said that their pet would not have given anyone reason to be afraid.

"She was only 7 months old. She was raised around five kids. She might have licked him to death, but she wouldn't have bit him," Karen Wolke said.

However, both the sheriff's department and the dog warden said that since the dog was off the Wolke's property, if the hunter felt that it was menacing, they would have be within their rights to kill it.

"That's not hunting, that's killing a pet, that's killing part of our family," Bob Wolke said.

Officers said there are no plans to file any charges in this case.

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