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No....just got to be quieter.....right?

I've got a small lease (150acres) and it has houses nearby and I use to think when I saw the dogs my hunt was over. I couldn't have been farther from the truth. I new the owners of the dogs and I begged them to keep them penned up during season. In my stand one day and had a doe come barreling down the hill and right behind it was a big black lab. They both ran over the hill and 5 minutes later here comes the lab running back by me at full speed and the doe was right behind him. I watched the 2 play chase for about 45 minutes. That night both buddies thought I was full of it. The following morning 1 of my buddies videotaped the same lab and a dachshund play chase with a doe. Knowing the owners I would never dream of shooting a dog on this place. But I've found that when the dogs are up roaming around it actually helps my hunts out, the dogs will push deer that are bedded up that normally you wouldn't see snd later after the dogs move through the deer come back to bed. The only time I've seen the dogs affect my hunt is when they smelled me and hung out under my stand.

I know a man on a place I once hunted that shot a deer dog on the place and bragged on it. He got attested and ended up paying the dog owner for the dog.

You guys are amatuers. We practice trophy dog management. CD.

just a fyi
I use to hate seeing dogs while hunting. I dont shoot dogs myself unless I feel threatened. But a few years ago I went on my first dog hunt at a wma (blue springs). There was several groups of doggers there. You would think after an hour or two, you wouldnt think there'd be a deer for miles. but while we were rounding up the dogs another group would be waiting to turn theirs loose in our block, and when you get to the next block you might have to wait for them to gather up there dogs before you could turn loose. This goes on for three days. Also at the club, you can turn loose in a block one day and run deer, and turn loose the next day and run deer. So I've learned that they dont affect the deer as much as i thought. Especially if there not deer dogs. I do think there is a place for human killing of some animals, I mean thats what most of the pounds do anyways after 90 days.
Also check out that study the did with deer with tracking collers and coondogs, pretty intresting. Cant remember were I seen that, on here I think.