ORIGINAL: rick64
ORIGINAL: Hokieman
I guess not posting your property with landowners name and number helps hunting dog owners find you and contact you to ask permission to retrieve our dog. By the time someone drives down the road and walks up to your house not knowing if your home or out and about at the sametime the dog could have fallen into an uncovered well or eaten poision put out by the owner illegaly to kill coyote or set out traps or anything that may endanger a hunting dog. It may take hours to find the owner when infact the welfare of the dog is of utmost importance. It goes both ways. The State of Virginia gives hunting dog owners a right to retrieve hunting dogs not for disrect of the landowner but for respect of their property and the welfare of the dog.
Derrick it's too bad you're not as good at finding solution as you are at making excuses. I posted land with my name and cell # three years ago. Guess how many calls I've received-O and have had signs peppered with buckshot. Still have slobs dropping dogs several times a season on 15 acres that borders it. This season they cut the cables to get their ATV's through the trail. With all the attention this past year, I thought things would improve this season, but this was the worst season yet. Elimination of the RTR and a minimum acreage to run hounds for deer is needed.
To get back to the article at the beginning of this thread. I wouldn't shoot a hound or approve of anyone else doing it. The fact is if the hound hadn't got off their lease(going off your statement, Mr Nelms didn't mention that in the article), it wouldn't have been shot. Same with hounds dropped or run near busy roads and get struck by cars, whose fault is that? What if the hound causes a accident? Should the hounds owner be liable or maybe the landowner, if they gave permission for the hounds to be run.
You never answered my question from the start of this thread. Would the VHDA push for stiffer penalties and laws against
anyone shooting a dog.
Elimination of the RTR and a minimum acreage to run hounds for deer is needed
Rick,
Do you honestly think eliminating the RTR will stop the law breakers. I don't. I feel that hound hunters need to no tolerate the law breakers and turn them in and weed out the few bad apples. And to your other question. Not at the present time, However every incident is being recorded and will continue to be until such time that action might be taken.