Eng well said, Pearl he may have misread your statements or he may have been referring to someone else on the issue of shooting dogs.

Although I have not hunted with dogs for years, I would do it again if the opportunity came up. We always used short legged beagles for running deer down home (Northern Neck), a short leg beagle can push a deer all day long, but they never push them hard, their legs are to short, I always prefered using the short legs because the deer normally are just at a trot, and sometimes just a brisk walk. You get some hounds on them and they are flying!!!