chucker34

Let me start this post by saying I was happy to close out my archery season yesterday with a nice yearling doe. The muzzy completely passed through the doe’s heart at about 20 yards from where I was standing on the ground. I was on the way to my blind and saw her snaking her way through the woods before she saw me and had time to duck behind an enormous maple to draw back. It was pretty exhilarating. This came after arrowing a nice mature doe in the shoulder a few weeks back and losing her and a missed shot due to an equipment malfunction a few weeks beforehand (sight was off, honestly). So it felt pretty good.

I was confident of my shot placement, but leery since I had rushed my recovery efforts a few weeks previously and had lost that deer. So I noted where she fell in the nearby slough and backed out and came back two hours later to find a neighbor dog chowing away. Luckily, I was on the scene shortly after he had got there. He clipped some of the ribs and nibbled on a bit of one hindquarter but was focusing most of his efforts on the innards, which left a mess for me. Could have been a lot worse and the joke is on the neighbor I guess since it is a pure white German shepherd and he was a mess too when he left. Hope he gave them a big kiss when he got home. Lol.

I would talk to the guy, but he is not doing so well, and a good guy overall. Just not the right time to talk to him about something so trivial in the scheme of things. He may not make it much longer, put it that way. And not much harm was done, so let’s not even worry about this specific case.

What I’d like to know, is how many of you feel its okay for people to let their dogs run your property, during deer season or any other time of the year? I have one friend who told me to put an arrow through the dog, which I would never do. Its not the dog’s fault, it’s the owner’s. And I have one on the opposite side of the spectrum who told me he let’s his dogs run loose and its just something you have to adapt to when living in the country, which I’ve done all my life. But he told me to get used to it and not stir up bad blood with my neighbors. Plus he told me, many people could argue it was my fault for leaving a deer by itself for a few hours in the woods. That I should have known something like this would have happened. I agree that its a lesson learned, that I should have stayed in the area, but not that it was my fault.

I’ve had dogs run deer past me while hunting, though not frequently, and now one chowing on my deer. My theory has always and I believe will always be that, human or canine, trespassing is trespassing if you don’t want that man or beast there. So telling someone to adapt to someone infringing upon your property rights, be it human or dog, it a little tough to take. What do you think?

Rob/PA Bowyer

Dogs should be taught to never leave the property!

huntingson

I do not treat dogs well that are on my property (I don't hurt them I just want them to know that it is not ok to be there) and I would expect anyone else to do the same to my dogs.

GR8atta2d

Not saying I would..but dogs get shot around here, if in the deer woods.

txjourneyman

I live in the country on 5 acres. My dogs do not leave the property. I have 5 dogs, the biggest 3 have collars for an invisible fence from Petsafe. It cost a bunch and was a pain to install the wire but it was the right thing to do. The cattle in the pasture next door are grateful.

NY/Al

Officer i thought it was a deer...

sbooy42

If you don't care about your dog let it run free....

Rob/PA Bowyer

txjourneyman, I bought the Invisible Wireless fence with collar that is available at Cabelas and Tractor Supply, no wire in the ground, it works remote from the house, 90 feet in any directions for my Axel, (Wirehaired Dachshund).

He ran away last spring and was gone for 5 hours and ended up a mile away when a guy brought him home. Had this been fall archery season and he went, (he's trained to track wounded deer) and someone shot him, I would personally avenge that!

There is a fine line people...Axel is now on an electric collar.

Super G Force

I own property and believe that my dogs are the only ones that should be on it. I do not think people should run there dogs where they should not be without permission in or out of season. I don't let my dogs on other peoples property.

Gundeck

I live in the country and have four neighbors all with dogs. They don't see my dogs from their house and I don't see theirs from my house. That is the way it should be.