For me, reading the article Nov. 13 “Hunting within the lines” was like deja-vu. I live at the end of Chadbourne Road in Lewiston, on the other side of the power lines and Grove Street that Sonya Laramee was speaking about, and I have had the same problems.

Back in the early 1990s, I had two family pets shot and killed by hunters, and I used to keep my children inside during hunting season because, let’s face it, there will always be some hunter who will shoot at anything that moves.

One day, I picked up the children at school and there was a hunter sitting against the telephone pole at my house. When I hollered at him, he just got up and walked away as if we weren’t there.

There are now horses and beef cattle on the property. My dog is not allowed out of the house unless it has on an orange vest. The family has to watch the animals and property all the time. Posting the property doesn’t do much good because the signs are just torn down.

Anywhere you go in Lewiston, there are new houses, and it’s time city officials start looking at the hunting lines seriously. Maybe it is time to change the hunting laws in order to protect children and animals.

My family allows a few hunters on the property to hunt, but a lot of hunters just don’t bother asking.

The new city councilors need to implement changes.

Pat Beaulieu, Lewiston