Another load of dog crap. Must be Hokieman's cousin.

Yes there is a dog problem in VA. Yes it's 99% dogs used for deer hunting. Yes something will ultimately be done about it. Denial or shifting the problem to be the agenda or cause of others is just more of the patented VHDA BS. It's 2008, you and you alone are responsible for your dogs. You let them go didn't you? The old days of we have the right to run amok on others lands is coming to a close. The bottom line is people do not want your dogs on their property regardless of the reasons or how long it's been allowed. Times change, slavery was a tradition just as dogs for deer are and it's time for a change. That time is now. People also do not want uninvited guests - hunters looking for lost dogs - on their land either. How this totally absurd violation of basic property rights came to be is beyond me. To allow it to continue is even more bizarre.

Dog hunting $$$.
West of the Blue Ridge they use the same argument for $$$ generated except they leave off the word "dog". It's hunting for deer that generates the $$$. If dogs were out of the equation people would still hunt. Nice try but hunting is alive an well in states that have zero deer dog hunting. And there are more of them that do not allow it than do.


Accidents and deer and the truth.
The truth is 1,000 of damage permits were issued last year alone for deer. More in dog chaser lands than other non-dog areas. If dog hunting was so darn effective why so many more permits?

Kill per sq mile vs hunting hours.
East of the Blue Ridge they kill something like 1 deer less per square mile than in dog chasing lands. But they only have a 2 week gun season there. If time were equal the WBR kill would easily exceed the EBR totals. Another BS story that only through the use of dogs can you control and kill deer. It's not as effective as the numbers prove.

Training season.
It's illegal to train on deer. There, do I need to say that again slower for you? It's illegal, what more do you need to know or hear? There's a reason for it. It interferes with another's rights for use on their own land in a time the state has deemed needs to be free from dogs. Other words keep your damn deer hounds locked up then. I'm sorry you feel jealous the bow hunters and ML hunters get their time first. Tip of the day learn how to hunt, not chase and you too can enjoy the benefits. Your poor little story is undoubtedly the most pathetic attempt at justification of running in another’s season I've ever heard. Congratulations on that winner. Any attempt to justify breaking the law just goes to show why there is a dog issue. They feel they have the right to break laws whenever they desire to.

Like a dog chasing it's tail this brings us back to the beginning, or why this study is being done in the first place. Dog chasers = illegal and unethical hunters. No not all but a larger % vs the other hunting methods. Whether it's running on another’s lands, running out of season, entering another's lands under the guise of looking for hounds, the whole dog hunting experience is always on the edge of breaking the law. It's the nature of dog hunting and people are getting tired of it. Change needs to happen and this is the first step.

Baiting presently is illegal. Till and if it ever is then catch and burn the people doing it. Same as running deer with dogs illegally. Lawbreakers need to be stopped.

I've go more too.......... I've also got a survey in progress by the state.