It has to be reported before anyone can be held responsible doesn't it? So just shoot them and the owners to get over it? Because the owners may feel that way about you. Here there is strict ATV laws so they wouldn't be running all over anyones land! First offence is a warning second offence is a $500 fine and lost of lisence for a year and it keeps getting worse.
But, I have to realise Maine is a big place with alot of hunting room right now. But, it still does not give anyone the right to shoot someones dog either way you slice it.

I don't own much land, but i was smart enough to avoid buying it in the middle of ground-zero for hunting deer with dogs, then whining about it. Here's your sign, sharpstuff.

Sorry News,

I forgot to address you questions, I was too busy talking to Lanse. I think that I need to buy him a beer, he sure has my blood pressure up. I have a feeling he is playing with me a little bit and enjoys it.

I guess there is always the chance that the dogs can run a booner in front of one of my stands. That's not the point. That's like saying if I shot your dogs with a salt & Pepper gun, they might be better dogs and stay on your own land. I scout my land a bunch and know the natural movement of the deer. When the dogs run, the deer scatter and it takes time for them to get back to normal. Chances are better than not, that we won't see deer on their normal travel routes. If you are in a stand on your land and 20 hunters walked through on a deer drive uninvited, would you think that this might have helped you so you don't confront them. I don't think so. I can see both sides of the problem, mine clearer because I paid for the land. I just don't have a solution and I have not heard one from you. All I hear is that the dogs aren't that bad, quit crying you may have one run by you. If this is all I am going to hear and the only solutions you dog runners have, the tradition you love is truly in trouble.

At times they do! But, I leave it up to the officers and the courts to handle that one. As most here think that loosing the dog/dogs is enough. But one such case 2 dogs were returned to the owners and the owners were charged. The owners had to get both dogs put to sleep and now waiting on the size of fine as well as how much damage they have to pay back. So here the laws work for the people and not the people trying to take matters in their own hands. So I guess that maybe your problems down there. We have a habit of dealing with things. A responsible dog owner has to be accounted for as well. It's not a case of someone complaining because folks hunt different so we do not have nearly as much whining going on up here.

Thanks for another shot at me. You are pretty good at calling people names but short on educated answers. The hunt club below me bought the land 14 months AFTER I did. Your starting to show you are just not the brightest tool in the shed. Put down the spiderman doll and think before you type.

Phil,

Man that is tough on the dogs. They had to be put down because their owner is a idiot. I am glad the same doesn't apply to people when your boss is an idiot, because I would have never made it this long.

Lanse, the beer is on me anytime you want to come down. I like the banter as much as the next guy, but we do have a real problem with this here.

Phil, I have posted before that the local authorities will not help. I have tried that and actually have a lawsuit I am fighting with the club along with 3 other landowners they do the same thing to. First you say let the authorities take care of it and then you say you have a habit of taking care of things. Which is it? I am not whining about how they hunt. I have already offerred my land to them if they don't run dogs while I am there. Are you just reading what you want?

My place is like the Bermuda Triangle. Once dogs cross into it, they are never heard from again.

We always had dogs in the South!They are Bubba Dogs!

Here's Bubba, his brother Bubba and his cousin Bubba!

Rebel H,

I've already got a printout of that posted on my ice box. Tried to do it with my dad's beagle, but it keeps spitting out the teeth.[:'(]