What to do about stray dogs?

Road kill is legal, mostly here. I used to live in one county and the sheriff's office would pick up deer off the road and have it processed to feed to the jail occupants, lol. We didn't ask though, just threw it in the truck and left.

A while back I saw a deer on the road and tried to get my husband to stop and pick it up but he said people don't eat roadkill. Twenty minutes later when we turned around to leave town it was gone. He still can't believe someone got it. I know some people with trapping license that stop and get fur animals off the road to skin like raccoons. You have to have a trapping license to sell fur.

Big A Ranch said:

i keep getting stray dogs on my property! I don't have a LGD yet and the one dog that was here when we moved on has been moved to the former owners new property she was the best at keeping strays away but she killed everything she could get her mouth on so I could not keep her. My pug and pittmix are big lovers and welcome new dogs with wags and licks. That's what I get for socializing my dogs! What are some of the things you guys have done?
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I think it is better to check up the owner of the dogs. If you can't find them, better call animal control.

NH homesteader said:

Yeah that's a pretty pathetic way to hunt. We have several tree stands up on our property and my parents' next door. No baiting and no dogs allowed here. Actually I have to double check on the baiting. I'm pretty sure it's still not allowed. We have a ton of apple trees on our land so they kind of bait the deer for us lol!

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It's not pathetic, just a different way to hunt. There are a lot of areas in the south where the terrain is impassible, or if its navigable, you'd make so much noise pushing through it the deer would be long gone by the time you got to your spot. Hunting deer with dogs isn't that different from the deer drives that are very common up here in the north, the main difference being that you use dogs instead of other people to move the deer. In fact, in certain places of the remote north (Ontario, CA) hunting deer and moose with dogs is a legal and established tradition. It's even more established in places like Norway and Sweden, where most hunters don't leave on an outing without first grabbing a rifle and a dog. And it takes a lot of commitment and training to get the dogs ready for such hunts.

Some might consider hunting deer from a tree stand as they graze on apple orchards or agricultural land to be easy and "pathetic." Some like to track deer. Some like to drive them. Some like to still hunt. There are different perspectives when it comes to hunting. No need to put down another person's method of hunting, so long as it is conducted legally and professionally.

I don't even remember this conversation. People drive deer here but I don't know if it's legal or not. I don't like it either. I know full well how difficult it is to train hunting dogs, I have a dog who is bred for boar hunting and while we haven't hunted her, her father is a great hunter. Boar need to be hunted with dogs, deer don't.

I don't consider myself to be pathetic for happening to have apple trees on the property.

The people who drive up my road tracking their dogs collars from their truck while they sip on Dunkin Donuts... That's pathetic.

I'm not going to continue this conversation.

NH homesteader said:

I don't even remember this conversation. People drive deer here but I don't know if it's legal or not. I don't like it either. I know full well how difficult it is to train hunting dogs, I have a dog who is bred for boar hunting and while we haven't hunted her, her father is a great hunter. Boar need to be hunted with dogs, deer don't.

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That's a subjective statement you're making there. Hunting deer with dogs was and still is a tradition in some parts of North America and Europe and other areas for the same reason that hog hunting with dogs is so prevalent throughout the world: it's very difficult to find them in some areas without the dogs.

NH homesteader said:

I don't consider myself to be pathetic for happening to have apple trees on the property.

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I'm sure you don't. And to be honest, I don't have a problem with that type of hunting method. I'm simply pointing out that we all have different views and opinions when it comes to hunting. And using derisive adjectives like "pathetic" to describe someone else's hunting method is unnecessary.

Actually, boar don't "need" to be hunted with dogs either... They are, simply because it makes it "easier" for the hunter. Without the dog's help, the boar hunter stands little chance of successfully getting a boar. The same situation exists in the southern part of the US with respect to deer. The undergrowth is so dense and visibility/sight lines so short, that without the dogs help it would be near impossible to succeed.

Greetings and welcome to BYH from NE Texas @Padre23 Perhaps you could go over to the new member section and do a brief intro so we can all welcome you properly?