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Did you know that in Virginia a hunting dog and it's owner can enter your property even after being denied permission?
Please sign this petition to ask our Virginia legislators to end the constant trespass of deer hunting dogs and their owners on your land in our state. There are currently no restrictions on how many hunting dogs may enter your property without your permission or how often they may do so. Virginia's current "right to retrieve" law allows any hunting dog handler to go anywhere on your property, any number of times, for any length of time,even after you've expressly forbidden permission under the guise of "looking for their dog". Are they really looking for a dog? Are they using this as an excuse to poach from your land? Are they scoping your place out for criminal activity? Weather you own, lease or manage land, hunt or don't hunt it should be your right to say who enters your property, when where and how often if at all. Let the deer hunters who use dogs figure out the how to's of keeping their sport on their own property, it's not your responsibility. It is your responsibility to speak up and demand your rights to your own property back.
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As someone that grew up deer dog hunting it saddens me to see how much has changed in the past 20 years.
Stay off my land. #fairgame
I can't wait for this to pass. We own land in Yale in Sussex county VA. Dog hunters in one particular hunt club are a nasty problem this year more than in the past. They release their dogs where they run across 4 or more connected posted properties driving the wildlife off to their ambush/dog pick up location. Of course the dogs also stop and aggraviate the goats that we have as goats and deer are cousins, as well as scare our other livestock with their barking. Some of the members of this hunt club do not even know where they are truly allowed to hunt and actually told me to my face where they could hunt which included my land and 3 other neighbors all of us have posted property. They need to learn how to still hunt and know the boundries to the places they have permission to be on. Still hunting is less stress on land owners and the wildlife. You can get a cleaner shot, more likely to get a 1 shot kill, and can better manage the overall quality of the animals, and possibly even reduce hunting accidents because they hear dogs and start shooting at every noise they hear. One of the final straws was a spike buck was shot and his backstraps cut out and then thrown into the creek/beaver pond on our property where it crosses the road and the next weekend our elderly neighbor was blocked in her driveway on a private road by hunters on her land without her permission. I will be very glad to see them go!!!
I hope it come soon!!!!!!!
This is a very bad problem in Campbell county.
we need to stop animal harassment that goes on year round by dog owners claiming to train their dogs. If it's illegal to hunt with dogs during a
Jason Bruce
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
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Did you know that in Virginia a hunting dog and it's owner can enter your property even after being denied permission?
Please sign this petition to ask our Virginia legislators to end the constant trespass of deer hunting dogs and their owners on your land in our state. There are currently no restrictions on how many hunting dogs may enter your property without your permission or how often they may do so. Virginia's current "right to retrieve" law allows any hunting dog handler to go anywhere on your property, any number of times, for any length of time,even after you've expressly forbidden permission under the guise of "looking for their dog". Are they really looking for a dog? Are they using this as an excuse to poach from your land? Are they scoping your place out for criminal activity? Weather you own, lease or manage land, hunt or don't hunt it should be your right to say who enters your property, when where and how often if at all. Let the deer hunters who use dogs figure out the how to's of keeping their sport on their own property, it's not your responsibility. It is your responsibility to speak up and demand your rights to your own property back.
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I have this problem and the only way to stop it is to end the barbaric practice of hunting with dogs. These dogs are abused and left to starve. its not right and most the starving dogs end up on my care.
As someone that grew up deer dog hunting it saddens me to see how much has changed in the past 20 years.
Stay off my land. #fairgame
I can't wait for this to pass. We own land in Yale in Sussex county VA. Dog hunters in one particular hunt club are a nasty problem this year more than in the past. They release their dogs where they run across 4 or more connected posted properties driving the wildlife off to their ambush/dog pick up location. Of course the dogs also stop and aggraviate the goats that we have as goats and deer are cousins, as well as scare our other livestock with their barking. Some of the members of this hunt club do not even know where they are truly allowed to hunt and actually told me to my face where they could hunt which included my land and 3 other neighbors all of us have posted property. They need to learn how to still hunt and know the boundries to the places they have permission to be on. Still hunting is less stress on land owners and the wildlife. You can get a cleaner shot, more likely to get a 1 shot kill, and can better manage the overall quality of the animals, and possibly even reduce hunting accidents because they hear dogs and start shooting at every noise they hear. One of the final straws was a spike buck was shot and his backstraps cut out and then thrown into the creek/beaver pond on our property where it crosses the road and the next weekend our elderly neighbor was blocked in her driveway on a private road by hunters on her land without her permission. I will be very glad to see them go!!!
I hope it come soon!!!!!!!
This is a very bad problem in Campbell county.
we need to stop animal harassment that goes on year round by dog owners claiming to train their dogs. If it's illegal to hunt with dogs during a
Jason Bruce
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I have this problem and the only way to stop it is to end the barbaric practice of hunting with dogs. These dogs are abused and left to starve. its not right and most the starving dogs end up on my care.