sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
I've seen it posted on here a few times. Coyote dogs or rabbit dogs etc. Ive seen some people wont stand for it and others say no big deal. Ive had trail cam pics the past couple years a couple times. It was always this time of year after the deer seasons. My thoughts was not to big of deal I guess, hopefully they are killing some yotes.
While out working this past weekend on the farm I heard some baying and it soon was clear someone was running their dogs through while I was there working in the timber. I just kept working, not much I could do about it. I whistled at them but they didnt come, yelled once thinking the owner might hear me. They went north up the creek and I never saw them. 30 minutes later here they come barking again, this time running down the edge of the creek channel, four dogs. Little bit later after I thought they were long gone here comes one more. An older dog and he wanted to be my buddy. He came right up wagging his tail etc. I was able to get a picture of his collar with the owners name & number. I could hear the owner near the rode beep their horn a couple times trying to call the dog back in, then he drove around the block and I could see his truck in the distance and the dog took off.
What bugs me a bit is I found a couple spots where obliviously a turkey had met their demise, nothing left but a bunch of feathers. And later on I found one of my better bucks from this past fall dead, it had been dad a little while, hide all gone etc. But it go me wondering if these dogs would kill a turkey if they came across one while out running or even kill a deer. I also have out corn & alfalfa bales out hoping to keep deer close in the winter to help find sheds. I would imagine if someone is regularly running dogs they bump the deer out when they do it.
What are your thoughts on the impact this has and if dogs would go after turkeys and deer? I have not been contacted by anyone asking permission to run their dogs and my understanding is it is legal for them to do so as long as the person themselves is not coming onto the property, so not much I can do anyways. But IMO they should atleast be asking permission. I'm not really sure what to think, how effective are dogs that are doing this on killing yotes etc. How does the owner even get the coyote if the dogs are pushing them if they cannot come onto my property to shoot etc?
Heres a picture of my little buddy that wanted to hang out with me instead of chase coyotes or whatever it is he is supposed to be doing. So there was alteast five dogs, all had the electric collars and pretty official tags, with owners name & phone #.
I plan to call the owner now that I have a number, but what do you think I should say etc.
While out working this past weekend on the farm I heard some baying and it soon was clear someone was running their dogs through while I was there working in the timber. I just kept working, not much I could do about it. I whistled at them but they didnt come, yelled once thinking the owner might hear me. They went north up the creek and I never saw them. 30 minutes later here they come barking again, this time running down the edge of the creek channel, four dogs. Little bit later after I thought they were long gone here comes one more. An older dog and he wanted to be my buddy. He came right up wagging his tail etc. I was able to get a picture of his collar with the owners name & number. I could hear the owner near the rode beep their horn a couple times trying to call the dog back in, then he drove around the block and I could see his truck in the distance and the dog took off.
What bugs me a bit is I found a couple spots where obliviously a turkey had met their demise, nothing left but a bunch of feathers. And later on I found one of my better bucks from this past fall dead, it had been dad a little while, hide all gone etc. But it go me wondering if these dogs would kill a turkey if they came across one while out running or even kill a deer. I also have out corn & alfalfa bales out hoping to keep deer close in the winter to help find sheds. I would imagine if someone is regularly running dogs they bump the deer out when they do it.
What are your thoughts on the impact this has and if dogs would go after turkeys and deer? I have not been contacted by anyone asking permission to run their dogs and my understanding is it is legal for them to do so as long as the person themselves is not coming onto the property, so not much I can do anyways. But IMO they should atleast be asking permission. I'm not really sure what to think, how effective are dogs that are doing this on killing yotes etc. How does the owner even get the coyote if the dogs are pushing them if they cannot come onto my property to shoot etc?
Heres a picture of my little buddy that wanted to hang out with me instead of chase coyotes or whatever it is he is supposed to be doing. So there was alteast five dogs, all had the electric collars and pretty official tags, with owners name & phone #.
I plan to call the owner now that I have a number, but what do you think I should say etc.
Little different than your situation, but a lot of these type of people don't learn and try to skirt around the law. 
