ORIGINAL: GMMAT
You could control it by stating (in reg) that the handler must be licensed and the dog MUST be on a lead of (____) ft.
Make the fines stiff enough so that the licensee would be reputeable....and that "should" solve any fears many have.
Agreed, and I am all for it....As far as the poaching comment....Poachers are gonna poach, REGARDLESS of the regs.....One's really got nothing to do with the other.....generally speaking. Guys kill deer out of season and by any means, and they will continue to do so....and they use dogs to do it sometimes.