Went to feed horses and could here dogs barking down from the barn. Finished the feeding and took off to see what the problem was. 2 LARGE 100# dogs with a mid size dog had a nice 8 pointer bayed in the creek. They had been on him for a while as one hind quarter had a chunk missing and he was very pissed kicking and butting with his rack to defend himself. Didn't want to get close and end up in the battle but had to do something to get the dogs away. 1 left right away with the other 2 not wanting to give up. After they left the buck looked up at me and I clucked as he snorted and tried his best to leave up the steep bank and continued up the wooded hill side favoring the leg without visable damage. Not sure if it had been hit by car or what allowed this deer to get cornered, just didn't want to see dogs win this battle. Guys ask if I shot the deer and I told them I probably would have turned on the dogs before the deer. These dogs roam by our property everyday to visit our contained lab and shitzu getting into the trash and doing what dogs do in the lawn. Picture is off my phone so its alittle fuzzy, good thing that was all I had.
I enjoy hunting with dogs, mostly waterfowl with family lab. Also spend a couple days with boys, beagles and cottontails every season. Deer hunting with dogs is hard to do around here with the small hunting tracks of land but are exciting to be a part of. The free roaming dogs can and do cause damage/ruin hunts. Not the dogs fault!!! Its the nature of the breed and the owners should handle the dogs better. The beagles we hunt rabbits with have a handler that is part of the pack and is a joy to watch. In addition the laws here in VA allow a person to treaspass to recover a dog which is puzzling, a few people use this as part of the hunt. The dogs I ran across here are just house dogs running free.
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