Shooting dogs!

I have retrieved deer without permission. But if told not to then you can be arrested. In Texas if you see purple painted fence posts that is the land owner saying no you may not retrieve your animal. However state law requires you to use every effort to recover an animal you have wounded. That is when you get your hunting license and cell phone and call the game warden. The game warden will force the land owner to allow you to recover your animal. I have never had this problem with dogs, but if I did I would call the game warden not the sheriff. Sheriffs are elected and are going to not want to make waves. The game warden works with hunters everyday and will be more likely to want to help you. That is why I carry my wallet with my hunting license with me when I am hunting. They are soaked in blood so now I use a ziplock bag. But when the game warden gets there and I pull my wallet out with my hunting license and written permission from the land owner to hunt and they get real nice. That is because they see I do everything I can to comply with the law and they very rarely find that with hunters. Then the other side is normally rude and yelling. Then the game warden really likes me. Oh, also carry a pen that can write on the tags. Even though you do not need a tag for pigs the game warden will know what it is for and it may get you a few brownie points.