Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Aldeer General Forum Update on the dog problem thread.

I'm the one that posted about the confrontation with a dog owner after his dogs ran off a deer I was watching on my property.

All I can say it that prayer works. I prayed about it last night,just asking God to help me work it out and do the right thing. I didn't want to kill the guy's dogs but I wanted to be able to hunt my property without them being a problem to me.

I had a message from the dog owner this afternoon when I came in asking me to call him or come by to talk. I first tried calling but didn't get him,so I just went back over to the property to see what he wanted and hunt this evening.He wasn't there when I got there but I heard him drive up before I had walked very far into the woods ,so I decided to just get it over with,whatever he wanted to say.

I did pray again that we both would keep cool heads as I walked back toward the truck.I wasn't very optimistic though because I saw that his pen was empty,so he hadn't put his dogs up. I was thinking,he was going to be spiteful and let them all loose. He had 5 or 6 and only 3 were out the day before,but now the pen was empty.

I walked up to his door and he came out on the porch. I told him I had got his message and asked what he wanted to say,getting ready for whatever,telling myself that I wouldn't get mad no matter what.

He started out by telling me that he had got rid of all his dogs. He said he didn't want any trouble with anyone. I told him that I didn't want any trouble either, and all I wanted was for him to keep his dogs up during season. I told him that I had asked as nice as I knew how.

Anyway we wound up talking a long time,about an hour. We even got to talking about the Lord,and we even prayed together before I left,after he asked me to pray that God would forgive him. I told him that God would forgive him without me praying for him but I also told him I was sorry for for any angry thing I had said to him the day before and we just prayed together with me leading us in prayer.

I guess some of you hard asses won't think much of this,but I think it was a much better outcome than what could have happened and I give God all the credit,because I wasn't acting much like a man of God after he started hollering at me. I never cussed him but after he said,just shoot the --- dogs. I shouted back that I would. I also shouted "just keep them off my property!" as I was driving away. The Lord really made me ashamed of even that today.