Ding Ding Winner !!! And Todd your right they dont get it. You should have seen the look on the Kids (31 yr old mans) face when he was all going to beat my ass on my little home sed and I got out of the jeep and I was a half a foot taller and a 100 pound larger and had a 454 casual in his face..

This has my vote for the most practical thing said in this conversation.

Yes it is But this subject is painted with a wide brush. We. Are not talking about the neighborhood pets here. We are talking about guys that think because they got a hunting license and paid dues in a club , they have a right to hunt where ever the "Dogs"hunt.. We are talking about plain old fashioned respect.. my neighbors dogs are on our place all the time yes some times it pisses me off when I have a particular Buck Im after and they run him out. But most of my neighbors hunt and if I tell them the dogs are roaming they put them up MOST of them do it. I still dont shoot any dog unless its a problem. Then Im going to shoot it and I dont care if it has orange paint on his side with 2 tracking collars and a speaker saying dogs owner is in a dog hunting gang and will kill you if you hurt me.. I dont care its SHOT....

I keep a BB gun handy for unwanted dogs on my property when you bust that arse they have tendency to remember. One walker hound (slow learner) still cuts across my backyard at a fast pace so I pepper around him with a 22 and put him in high gear.

Although I only hunt small game with my two squirrel dogs, all I ask of any fellow sportsman is that IF for some crazy reason one or both of my dogs winds up somewhere they shouldn't (and, yes, I've lost contact a time or two with both of my dogs before with my Garmin tracking system, I assume due to terrain) please, please give me a chance to retrieve them or call them back without blowing them away. I don't blame a person for getting ticked over a reoccurring situation or a blatant abuse, but a one-time deal, in my mind, would be hard to get too mad over for most level-headed folks.

Me and my boy were squirrel hunting at Coosa WMA after Christmas. While we were hunting, a cur came to my two dogs while we were treed and dealing with a squirrel. My dogs were really in good voice that day, so we let them tree for several minutes, figuring that the other hunter would come get his dog. The dog had a tracking collar that was 'on' and a name and number plate on the regular collar, but I'd not heard a single peep out of other dogs or folks in the area. After 15 minutes, I didn't know exactly what to do. I figured the dog hadn't been abandoned, since there were collars on him, so we released them to hunt, and the other dog followed us as we made out quick loop and headed back to the truck. The other dog looked young and was hunting, but wasn't really doing a whole lot... I figured that he was mostly still in a training phase. We were on our last tree, close to the truck when the guy pulled up on the woods road near us. He apologized for the inconvenience, and told me he was right at a quarter-mile past out farthest point of the loop. He said when my dogs treed, his dog went straight to them. The dog's collar was only a tracker (no electricity) so he couldn't turn him back.

No harm, no foul, but in a situation like that, the other guy did everything right, and still his dog got out of pocket. There are situations where well meaning folks TRY to do the right thing, and a dog may still get out of place. Just don't let that one-time, low odds scenario put an end to a good dog.

It blows my mind that anybody is ok with that. Is your aunt ok with it? That's the kind of crap that looks bad on ALL hunters.

yea fldoghunter. Kinda blows my mind. He says they wouldnt tell them. UH yea, cause its illegal.

Its pretty telling how this thread has gone. When i mentioned that the dog hunter MIGHT approach the situation with the same flawed logic they used. They acted like i was trying to cancel Christmas. How dare i even mention something like that.Then the dog shooters lectured me about killing my own dogs, before they get a chance to shoot the dog themselves. And before admitting defeat, now they wanna throw the old "when dog hunting is gone its our fault"line. Pretty sad. Let me explain how dumb that sounds. Dog hunting will not be stopped in my lifetime and probaly not even in my grandkids lifetime, deer dogging, MAYBE. But not dog hunting. So I'll be dog hunting for the rest of my life. But how much hunting are they gonna be doing when they catch a felony?

However, there has been some great advice given in this thread, on both sides of the argument. But the rest of the folks might wanna read my 2nd paragraph again and let that sink in.

Yea youd be holding your azz that i handed you, just like i did in this thread.

There is really only one conclusion to this thread. About dogs and shooting dogs people do not think logically. Even on an internet forum, the emotion boils out. Shooting dogs can end badly and SSS isn't always foolproof.

Please you couldn't find your own ass with a stick and a magnifying glass much less hand anybody else their's. But cheer up. You can always go shoot some puppies to get your mind off how bad you have looked in this thread.

Because you ARE the A-Hole here! Anybody who throws a puppy in the river because it doesn't hunt the first time out of the truck and bitches about people who suggest killing a grown dog that runs deer on their land is frankly off in the head. A freaking dead dog is a dead dog. You are living by double standers. You talk about it being Illegal to kill someones dog well hell I am pretty sure it's Illegal to chunk puppies in the river too.

For the record. I've never thrown a dog in the river. Its like an urban legend. I don't have any hunting dogs. I do know a lot of dog breeders. I'm only suspicious of one of them. I'm sure stuff like this goes on. But that ain't a "dog hunter" thing. They say it's same principle as putting cats in a garbage bag. People do it so technically they ain't killing it, guess it helps them mentally or something, I don't know. Just something I read. To me it ain't to far removed from folks that shoot folks pets. That's why I said it. So now y'all ask all the other dog killers in this thread the same question y'all asked me, with the same conviction. Why don't you hold them accountable.

I've never ever knowingly killed a puppy, or ever caused one to die, that's the gods honest truth, I put that on my momma!

Next?

PS jungle nurse

You quoted the wrong post, I mentioned none of that in the post you quoted. Maybe it's just so you can call me the A-hole here. But maybe if you could keep up, I wouldn't have to bring to your attention. By that point in the convo there'd already been a bunch of dog killing in this thread. Maybe you forget about that though.

goodman_hunter, serious question here. Do you regularly call in and talk with Paul Finebaum on his show by chance?

Your'e a funny guy. What happened for you to have such hatred for Nurse's? Did you loose your girlfriend to one? Did you throw her puppy in the river? For the record I do agree that you shouldn't kill another mans dog for coming on your property but you should at least have a man to man talk with him.

I just hope no one shoots one of my coon dogs. I don't know what I'd do and don't want to find out.

I might as well chime in. I grew up dog hunting and still miss it, but too many people are against it for one reason or another.
I've had rabbitt beagles on my place 4-5 times this year without my permission. I know the guys, but try to get along (locals). As much as I love dog hunting, it crossed my mind to catch them and take them to the pound. I really don't want them running and barking on me, period. Why should I play nice and put up with it? So I'm forced to either shut up and like it or be an asshole. They've put me in a lose/lose situation, and that's ONE reason dog hunting is being phased out.

Keep your coon dogs on your property and under your control and you never have to worry about what you would or would not do. It really is pretty simple. I'm just an ole marsh rat and even I can figure that out.