XPost: rec.birds   
   From: piper@no.spam   
      
   I live across the street from a park. The general area is home to a   
   number of large black crows; lately I have noticed several dead ones   
   in the park, a new one every cople of days.   
      
   Then the other day I noticed a lady walking her two dogs off-leash in   
   the park.  She caught my attention because she was screaming at her   
   dogs; turns out they had caught one of the crows and were playing with   
   it, much as a cat would play with a mouse. As she ran towards them,   
   the woman screamed and screamed at the dogs to stop, but they ignored   
   her. As she reached them, she attached a leash to one of the dogs'   
   collars and started dragging it away, leaving the other dog to   
   continue tormenting the crow. The woman dragged the first dog out of   
   the park and out of sight, presumably back to her home. She returned   
   about 5 minutes later in her car and retrieved the other dog, who was   
   still having fun with the crow. As she was dragging the dogs away she   
   would pause periodically to beat them and shout at them.   
      
   A couple of days later, this woman was back again. Again her two dogs   
   were off-leash, and again they caught a crow and were harrassing it.   
   Again she ran across the park, re-attached the leashes, beat the dogs,   
   and dragged them away, but this time she didn't leave the park right   
   away. After a few minutes the dogs were back off their leashes and   
   running around freely once more.   
      
   Clearly this bimbo is the cause of the dead crows (I don't blame the   
   dogs - they are just doing what comes naturally). Now, I have no   
   particular love for crows - they are more of a nuisance than anything   
   else - but still it doesn't seem right that thus idiot should let her   
   dogs run around out of control killing birds every day.   
      
   As an aside, I also noticed that when people are walking nearby, often   
   these dogs will run towards the people, barking loudly, and jump up on   
   the people, until the woman manages to call them off. It is painfully   
   obvious that these dogs are not trained well enough to be running   
   around off-leash in a public park.   
      
   My questions: Is there anything that can be done about this? Is this   
   woman violating any laws? Would the cops do anything if I called them?   
      
   What would you do?   
      
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