The cost of food

[polkanut]

Using dogs to chase and herd wild game is illegal I believe. If you're caught doing that here in WI you might get a harsher sentence than if you committed 1st degree murder, just kidding, but not too far from the truth.

 

[tolivac]

In North Carolina the use of dogs is OK for hunting big game such as deer,bear,feral hogs.In the northern and Midwest areas-the use of the dogs is illegal for big game hunting.In the Southeast the use of dogs for hunting big game is common.Its diffrent than what I was used to .In South Dakota at the time I deer hunted there-use of dogs was a serious offense.The game warden could confiscate them.The hunting laws and methods in the Southeast are very different than those of the Western areas.There are also folks that raise and sell the "Walker Hounds" commonly used here.What I don't like about the deer dogs is some hunters are careless and don't always get all of their dogs-guess what they show up on the doorstep of our transmitter site(now a temp dog pound?)So we look on the dogs tags and call the owner.The dogs also wear radio collars so the hunter can keep track of the dog-but the collar battery may be worn down or out of range of the hunters unit-the dog strayed to far away.Fortunately a vast majority of dogs that show up here are picked up.A couple were taken home by another coworker-the dogs he got were out in the wild for a long time-one had worms and died-the other recovered.The one that recovered is doing fine at his house.

 

[sudsmaster]

I think in California dogs are only allowed to retrieve downed waterfowl. Never heard of anyone in this state using them to help hunt deer or boar. And there's no bear hunting that I know of in California, as well.

Of course it's legal to use dogs to hunt people.