JonMBailey

Provided a private landowner will allow a polite fellow to control his varmints free of charge with a shotgun or a 22, are such private landowners likely to object to such "charitable varmint controller's" having his well-trained canine companion present?

Having my Lab present during a ground squirrel shoot will give him a fun time outdoors and make him used to gunfire by the time feathered game seasons come.

A well-trained Lab, of course, is not going to pester a farmer's or rancher's livestock.

Perhaps, some rural landowners might get the impression that a varminter with a hunting pooch present might be an especially proficient and efficient varmint controller for that reason.

My number one rule is: I don't hunt if Rover can't join me meaning I don't hunt if the landowner objects to dogs.

I would probably ask the landowner for permission for both my well-trained and obedient "hunting dog" and I right off the bat.