mello I know very well what you mean about slob dog hunters, and I totally agree it is trespassing in my book to let the dogs loose on someone elses property that they do not have permission to run them on. There are a lot of good dog clubs in Va. that work very hard to not upset land owners by keeping thier dogs in check. Unfortunantly the dog hunters the majority of us are familiar with are the ones that are slobs, releasing thier dogs on places they shouldn't and not picking them up at the end of the drive, but letting them move on where ever the deer may be headed in the hopes they will run the deer back to them.

To be honest with you I will not shed a single tear when they ban dog hunting deer in Va. In a weird way though it will be a lose to hunting traditions that have been practiced for years here for a lot of good hunters. There are a lot of life long hunters that have no idea how to deer hunt without dogs and many of them will simply quit rather than put forth the time and effort hunters like myself put forth to beat the deer at thier own game. It is a shame that due to a minority of slob dog hunters the good ones will lose out on a lifetime tradition though. A dog is and has been a great aide to many a deer hunter, but due to a lot of their owners being dirtbags the good dog hunters will die along with the tradition.

The Tazman