Here we go again..please read

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The VA Dept game & Inland Fisheries is doin a year long study on huntin with hounds...to ban huntin w/ hounds??
I dont think so...but it's important that all huntin dog owners read or look at this link.

Huntin Hound Study

I know, yall dont live in Virginia and it dont affect you, right?
Well...you're wrong....cause this could be your state next. Bear hunters, fox, yote, coon, bobcat, rabbit & deer hunters....will all feel the push of tree-huggers and snobbish landowners.
In VA...it's growin so rapidly....that most of the "older generation" are now the minority. Sportsmen and houndsmen alike. All those "newcomers" dont want to see trucks with dogboxes, it makes their roads look trashy.
They dont want to see a hound come within 1 mile of their property. Population growth is everywhere...so keep a close watch in your state...and dont throw away the traditions with your hounds!

There are also smaller laws that can make a BIG difference that you might not know about....
In your state, is a hunting dog classified as a "companion dog"?
There is a difference! Here, a person who shoots or intentionally harms a companion dog is punished on a felony charge instead of a misdemeanor and can easily include jailtime.
That was changed a few years ago here in VA..they are listed as a companion dog...but it's a good point to prove that your rights can be trampled upon and you not even know it.

As far as the study goes, the VDGIF is tryin to see if all those complainers are full of bs I think, I'm not sure if there will be a change to our hound huntin laws next year, but I'm dam sure that I'll be there to fight it...and even if you dont live in VA, I hope you will help me by takin part in the online surveys they will be offerin soon. I dont wanna see the domino effect like the apology fer slavery thing did.

I think most of this thing is aimed at deer hounds. I know there is alot of people who have never been here and has never done it, so their opinion and words are uneducated guesses and rumors...their opinions should not count.

Yes, there are a-holes that give the sport a bad name...and it's a shame cause...done legally and correctly...it's a wonderful experience! But, look at it this way....they ban that...and whats next??? How can you control where a hound runs...on any game?
How can you retrieve any hound?
It dont affect one, it affects all kinds of hound huntin.

The first day of gun season is this Saturday...and the hounds will be fillin the woods and singin their songs. I hope hunters will think about this this weekend while their dogs are runnin. I'm headed to town today to post more flyers today, and I've already emailed the local papers.

I am beyond sick of new people tryin to change traditions and I'm tellin you...I will stand to the very end and I've got so fed up...that the next time somebody tries to take somethin as simple as a bubblegum machine from a store, I'm gonna whip their butt right then and there...lol