i disagree with the 1000 acres. We have pieces we hunt that are 500 hundred acres and the dogs rarely go off the property. so i think it just depends. i mean we can put beagles in a 200 acre piece and the dogs would be fine. I do like the idea of the dogs being tagged though and having a permit and things. but then again that goes back to would they enforce it? ?????????????????? that is the problem now the laws are there but there is nobody to enforce them. if they just had more people to enforce the laws that would solve half the problem.