Man fined $9,000 for deer carcass

HARNARINE JAGMOHAN was fined $9,000 by the court after a deer was found in pieces in his bag.

Jagmohan, 36, of Barrackpore, faced nine offences of possession of a protected animal when he appeared before Magistrate Halcyon Yorke-Young on Monday.

The Express was told he was charged for each piece of the deer as under the Wildlife Act each piece is considered to be an animal.

It was at 12.20 a.m. on Friday that game warden Steve Seepersad and other officials were on patrol at Saunders Trace, Moruga, when he saw Jagmohan at the side of the road with a knapsack.

Jagmohan's actions aroused suspicion and he was interviewed and searched. The animal was found in pieces in a bag. Jagmohan said a man had given it to him. He was taken to the Moruga police post where Seepersad charged him. The case was prosecuted by Sgt Roger Richardson in the Princes Town Second Magistrates Court.

Yorke-Young fined Jagmohan $1,000 on each of the charges. He was given two months to pay the money or serve three months’ hard labour.

• Published on Aug 11, 2015, 10:17 pm AST, Trinidadexpress.com
• By Nikita Braxton 

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Is the dam more important than the sire?

A paper just out about horses has the dog people all atwitter. Provocatively titled "Potential role of maternal lineage in the thoroughbred breeding strategy", it examines the relative genetic influence of the sire and dam in racing performance as documented in terms of lifetime earnings.

The researchers found that "elite" (top-winning) sires bred to elite dams were more likely to produce elite offspring, and likewise poor sires bred to poor dams produced poor offspring. But the kicker was that poor dams bred to elite sires tended to produce poor offspring, while elite dams breed to poor sires could produce excellent offspring. So a great sire can't compensate for a poor dam, but a great dam can produce a great performer with a poor quality sire.

Aha! Just as that long-time dog breeder has always said, the dam is more important than the sire in your breeding program, and here finally are the data to prove it. ....................................

By: Carol Beuchat PhD Posted on: 9 Aug 2015.                                              LINK TO FULL ARTICLE    Editors note: Any dog breeder worth his salt has been saying just this for ages.