Chris's replies are correct. Feral hogs are exotic livestock and they do belong to whoever owns the land they are standing on, provided they are not tagged or branded. A land owner may shoot a dog that is attacking, has attacked or is about to attack exotic livestock. I would assume that a dog bayed on a hog would meet the "attack' threshold. A caught hog would definitely meat the threshold.
A land owner or leasehold may not shoot a dog for trespass or running or disturbing deer, but they will. We as dog hunters have got to protect our dogs by not putting them into a situation where they can be put in harms way. Its very bad PR for hog doggers to have dogs running through land that we do not have permission to hunt.
This is one of the main reasons we lost the dog hunting in SHNF (hog dogs being run in the forest during deer season). Also deer dogs have just been banned from Kisatchie National Forest (Louisiana), one of the main reasons for the desision was because of deer dogs running on to private property and negatively impacting the use of the Forrest by other users. We as dog hunters have got to make sure that we keep our dogs on the property we have permission to hunt.
Thanks,
Paul T
This is where I disagree for what they have done! Outlaws are outlaws! The same night hunting poachers that hunt deer in the SHNF Hunt them on private land also but they don't stop deer hunting in the SHNF! Look at the difference in people caught with Illegal deer and dogs crossing fence's!Way more!
They need to start catching the bad rats and deal with them not punish the good ones!
All they hurt is the good one's because the bad one's are running the fire out of it and I know it for a fact!
I got sent 2 picture's on my phone just this week from 2 big hogs that got caught out of the forest!HMMM
