This has been bugging me & since this group is so civil, and on the heels of Stevens survey & various posts over the last season... Please humor this non-dog hunter, yada yada... IF RTR was repealed & if the wording that was in the survey, was actually law (ie regardless if contacting landowners was impractical, etc- pretty scary IMO).... What in the world are dog runners *legally* supposed to do??? I hear the landowner talking heads say other states dont have a RTR law, but Ive also heard during season this year how a few particular runners had dogs on a property but none of the POSTED signs had contact info... How do you contact a person you cant contact? How do you retrieve animals? (if the landowners dont want them tresspassing, do they really want them stuck on their property longer than necessary??) Without RTR, would a runner need to call DGIF if they couldnt contact the landowner, or police if the landowner refused retrieval? I may just be dumb as this isnt something Im familiar with, but I would be quite upset if I couldnt get a dog back, especially if I suspected they were injured. And with the way tensions are raging, it seems, I could logically see landowners refusing retrieval out of spite. Antis like to talk about abandoned dogs (dont get me wrong, Ive seen first-hand what some bad apples do to/with their dogs, I have one on my couch as I type). But especially as an animal lover, I would MUCH MUCH rather reunite runner & dog than risk that dog falling under abandoned when it actually has a very worried, caring home to go back to. I guess I just dont quite understand what the proposed resolution is if RTR is repealed, or how it could possibly benefit the DOGS (which antis & hunters often espouse concern over). Thanks all for your input, sorry it got a little long.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:45:20 +0000
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