Deer dogs on my property....

Well, I think you really have three options:
1. Shoot the dogs (on your property of course).
2. Get LE involved.
3. Deal with it.

Maybe, if you own your property, you could in touch with the property owner of the land they lease and work it out with them.

I would work through those before trying anything else. I'm not going to speak for you or anyone else on this board, but I hunt a roughly 600 acre tract of land and do not run dogs. However, our neighbors do, and their dogs come onto our property at times. It's a love/hate kinda thing. I hate it during the rut when you want things still so that the deer can run unpressured. On the other hand, I like it when their dogs are running our deer for us when you've been there 3 days and not seen shite and the weather is shite. I've put a lot of meat in the freezer because of one or two dogs straying onto our land, when I know I otherwise would have been skunked.

We started trapping them and letting the dog owners (neighbors mutts not hunting dogs) and the local pound deal with it.

frickING tired of inconsiderate dog owners and driving 4 hours to hunt only to watch useless dogs run my deer.

I just don't have the heart to shoot them.

Most timber companies have banned dog hunting. For those that still allow it, you can usually lease the land out from under the dog hunters. As a neighboring landowner, the timber companies would much rather lease to you than to an outside group. Lots of times, they have to drive through their neighbors to access timber off their property. This might not be the case in your situation. But it's the case often enough that they have a general policy of wanting to be friendly and cooperative with their neighbors.

1. Talk to them about it (good luck)

2. Start shooting everything you see in front of their dogs. They don't like you shooting in front of their dogs lots of times.

3. Catch the dogs. Per LA state law, you can charge them up to I think it's $150 per dog to get them back.

4. Make it well known to them that you have gotten a new member in the club who is out there trappings coyotes, foxes, and other critters, and mean it. They don't like walker hounds with broken legs.

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Per LA state law, you can charge them up to I think it's $150 per dog to get them back.

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First time I've ever heard that.

Hotdogs antifreeze....

After the dogs start dropping, they will get the point.

its a shame that some people think it should just be accepted as being just part of it.

If I lease land, I don't want the neighbors running through my lease yelling and chasing deer just like they wouldn't want me doing it on their place. So why should dogs be any different. Id love to see every member of a club involved in a hunt where the dog crosses propert lines charged with trespassing

Every swinging dick here would shoot a coyote they saw on their property running deer.

I get why people kill them. It must suck to drive several hours to your expensive property only to have the dogs ruin your hunt. I personally couldn't do it, but seriously, I get it. Now, OP, what I would do is trap them and give them to a shelter or tell them that you have an interest in trapping coyotes as others have mentioned. They wont dare to put their dogs back on your place if it means an expensive trip to the vet.

I brought up the antifreeze and hotdog deal because that was the only method that has ever worked. When we started hunting on our first lease in Alabama we had a problem with some "locals" running dogs on our property. It was always during the week when the didn't expect us to be there. The first confrontation happen when I was up during the week and the ran right in front of me, I was about to blast one when the old boy came running oUT behind them. I called him over and he said he had permission to hunt. This was proven to be bullshite and they said they wouldn't come back. That was the last time I saw him that season. The next year I scouted the lease better and set up camera along some trails coming from a cutover, needless to say I had pictures of the same guys. I printed out the pictures and brought then to the sheriff and the local greenjeans. Both knew the guys and said they would speak with them. I went back two weeks later and all my cameras were smashed to shite. So this is were the hotdogs and antifreeze comes in. I placed them in the areas where the cameras were, and I'm assuming they got the point. I never had to deal with that again for the 4 years I had the land. But the sheriff did come by the camp and asked if I poisoned his dogs. I said no, and he said well he had to ask and left..