Need some advice guys

I would fight it but I fought the tickets when I rear-ended a State Trooper. Of course I won in court. To me if you don't fight you already lost. Sit down and come up with your logical reasoning and then go in and fight. I am always real nice to LEO's but some are just jerks. The bigger jerk they are to me the more likely I am to fight in a legal way. The people that grabbed you dog were dog thieves. A river is a legal physical boundry. That is if your yard had to be fenced but had a river on one side you do not have to put a fence along the river. So if you can prove that your dog crossed a river then you win the whole fight. If you have some to back up your story that is good. If you have it on your GPS with date and time marks that is even better. If the Ranger was nice you can be nice. But if he was a jerk I would have a list of questions about legal and physical boundries, then you can ask why the hunters were not charged with theft. But I would only do that if he was a jerk.

(This is not legal advice. You should seek legal advice from a legal professional)