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   From: lfsheldon@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/25/2011 6:58 AM, maryann wrote:   
      
   > I'm sorry but there seems to be something odd about this story.  Crows   
   > are pretty savvy creatures.  I can't imagine one being caught by a cat   
   > much less a dog.  And if somehow a dog did manage to catch one, crows   
   > watch and learn.  I very much doubt that the same dog in the same area   
   > with the same crow family would get a chance at another crow.  It has   
   > been shown that they can recognize people and they do remember.  Maybe   
   > something else is killing the crows and the dogs are just catching   
   > sick or dying birds.   
      
   There used to be places where a city or county truck would drive up and   
   a guy would get out, stick a double-barreled shotgun into a tree full of   
   crows, unload it and get back in his truck and drive off leaving dead   
   crows on the ground for the property owner to clean up.  I have never   
   witnessed this sort of things but in pre-Internet days the stories got   
   around.   
      
   Anyway, it occurred to me that maybe they were using poison instead of a   
   shot gun.   
      
   I've never figured out why, there are people who hate crows.   
      
   Nice catch, Maryann.   
      
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