
{"id":20996,"date":"2011-09-22T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20996"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:31:48","slug":"county-supports-banning-deer-hunting-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/22\/county-supports-banning-deer-hunting-with-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"County supports banning deer hunting with dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rose Laudicina<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nA proposal to ban deer hunting with dogs had everyone barking at the Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday night, where the board voted unanimously to continue to support the ban. <\/p>\n<p>Hunters clad in camouflage and neon-orange hats and shirts to protest the proposed ban occupied half of the room, while the other half was filled with residents in support of the ban. <\/p>\n<p>Commissioners said deer hunting with dogs is a major public-health, safety and property-rights issue, and that due to the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continued residential growth, it is becoming too densely populated to allow it to continue. <\/p>\n<p>The board heard from a number of residents representing both sides of the charged issue.  <\/p>\n<p>Some opposed to the ban said they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe pursuing a ban on hunting deer with dogs was a wise use of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s limited monetary resources. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With everything going on in the county related to 911 calls and emergency services, do you really want to spend money on this foolishness? Really, people?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d local deer hunter Lamar Chapman said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The key word here is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwasteful spending,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Earl Brown, a farmer and hunter from northern Orange County. <\/p>\n<p>Other residents said they supported the ban because of the public-health and safety issues involved.<br \/>\nDavid and Jennifer Honeycutt, who live in Cedar Grove, an area of the county where this type of hunting is still legal, said 2010 was a very trying year for them because of it, and cited the negative effects on themselves, their family and their property.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We had cut-off deer legs and cut-off deer heads drug up to our door by hunting dogs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jennifer Honeycutt said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Orange County is getting too crowded. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Every year, it gets scarier, and the safety and property rights are gone. We ask you to keep fighting.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the board voted unanimously to seek a ban on hunting deer with dogs in northern Orange County as part of their legislative agenda for approval by the General Assembly. However, the issue got stuck in committee and was never brought up for a vote during this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s session. <\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the ban also told stories of hunters illegally hunting on their properties. Hunters at the meeting responded by promising that they have always practiced safe hunting and abided by the rules. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We applaud you for being responsible, and it would be nice if everyone would be as responsible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Pam Hemminger said. <\/p>\n<p>Marilee McTigue, a resident of rural Orange County, said that while many hunters are respectful of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No hunting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No trespassing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unfortunately deer and the dogs that chase them can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read the no trespassing signs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to ban deer hunting with dogs had everyone barking at the Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday night, where the board voted unanimously to continue to support the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20997,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996\/revisions\/20997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}