I agree Father Forkhorn. What WhitBri said is the way I would handle it. I own seven beagles and I take care of them better than I do myself. In my state there is a training season and I am allowed to take them out and get them some good excercise and training. Very rarely a young dog will jump a deer and get away from me and go to an area that I dont have permission to go on and do not have any access to enter. I live miles away from where I do the training, so I have to keep trying to catch my dog or hope that he ends up with a nice person who is willing to call me to come get him. All my dogs have bright Orange collars with my name and address and phone number on them. Some of these hunters advocating just blasting away at these dogs are the same ones busting on people who give hunters a bad name. You shoot some little girls beagle pup and you will make a hunter hater for life and I will guarantee that. Beagles were bred to run game, so doing so is not their fault. They usually dont run very fast and most deer are used to them and are more annoyed than fearful of them. Stray house dogs are another story. They would have to be handled on a case by case basis. I hunt Archery, black powder and the rifle seasons, so I understand both sides to the story. I just cant sit by and let all these people advocate blasting all dogs just because they are running deer. Think before you shoot because you cant take it back.