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turkey? Choot em!

it's from a show on history channel called swamp people about gator hunters, that's what he says over and over, choot him!

but seriously, if I see a wild turkey in our yard, it's going down, one of my friends lost two of his dogs due to eating wild turkey poop, I forget what disease they had picked up from it.

I contacted my friend yesterday to get the scoop on the turkeys, it had been a few years since it happened, so i wanted to refresh my memory what happened.

He had two golden retrievers that died of kidney failure two weeks apart, the vet asked if they had gotten into anything, the only thing he had noticed was them eating the turkey poop where the wild flock had been, the vet said that was probably it.

So he called the state DNR to get a nuisance permit to take care of the turkeys, the guy at the state told them there was no way what so ever a turkeys poop would harm a mammal.

His sons girlfriend was taking biology at U of Maine, so she went and talked with the micro-biology professor and asked him what he thought.

He said the person from the DNR was full of crap, turkeys carry a huge amount of disease, including salmonella, e-coli, etc. There is a very likely chance the dogs caught something from them, but would be hard to tell without a autopsy, which was not performed

yeah, our dogs look at it as a buffet