Dog Troubles

Hunting a new property this year with the landowner who's in his late 80s. Today while sitting in my stand had another neighbors dogs run through our property barking like mad, circled my tree stand a few times then took off. He's been told before to keep his dogs on his own property/ tied up as the Landowner has had enough of the dogs on his property. Landowner is going by tomorrow morning to give him about the dogs being loose again, just wondering at what point is it considered "interfering with a lawful hunt"? seems to have no issues letting his dogs run wild. Not hunting dogs btw, just house doodles

shovel and shut up? :)
I'd never have the heart to do it.

have owner call MNR.

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Originally Posted by vom Dufenshmirtz

shovel and shut up? :)
I'd never have the heart to do it.

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I couldn't do that either but you said what I was thinking

doesn't have to go so far as "interfering with a lawful hunt". Simple dogs running at large should have the mnr knocking on doors.

It would be interesting to see / know the outcome of calling the MNR......

In my experience hunting other peoples private property neighbourly disputes have been the primary cause of loosing permission to hunt that property. Anything you can do to minimize conflict will work in your favour.

Have you tried firing a shot into the air when he’s near you… Might spook him off…

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Originally Posted by m1k3_88

Hunting a new property this year with the landowner who's in his late 80s. Today while sitting in my stand had another neighbors dogs run through our property barking like mad, circled my tree stand a few times then took off. He's been told before to keep his dogs on his own property/ tied up as the Landowner has had enough of the dogs on his property. Landowner is going by tomorrow morning to give him about the dogs being loose again, just wondering at what point is it considered "interfering with a lawful hunt"? seems to have no issues letting his dogs run wild. Not hunting dogs btw, just house doodles

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Buddy used Bear Bangers on his neighbor's dogs. Scared the livin' bejeebus out of the dogs and got the owner's attention when he heard the shots. His dogs didn't return until way after dark. In the meantime,he was convinced his dogs had been shot. Message received loud and clear. No further problem.

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Originally Posted by Marker

In my experience hunting other peoples private property neighbourly disputes have been the primary cause of loosing permission to hunt that property. Anything you can do to minimize conflict will work in your favour.

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agree 100%

Time to become a landowner yourself and control your own destiny.
As a guest, not your place to start a dispute between two landowners.
Does the current landowner have an issue with his neighbors hounds ?

Most townships have a dog catcher, give then a call.

that is probably the best solution. There a couple of really big white dogs a couple properties over. someone most have reported him as he had to put a fence up and keep the dogs in or loose them. this was before I started hunting where I hunt. They came by me one morning while i was hunting. Gave them a scratch and off the went away from their place. I called the owner and let him know they were running loose, he wasnt concerned but never saw them again, so he got the message i guess.

There’s a lot of info that we don’t know so it’s difficult to offer advice.

Maintaining a civil relationship with neighbours is important however that can only be achieved if both parties see value in that objective.

It’s important that the dog owner realize that allowing his dog (s) to roam off its property is illegal. He should also be made aware that the dogs are interfering with a legal hunt to which there could be consequences (fines).
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Ideally in any conflict you seek a resolution that is mutually beneficial. If the other party isn’t willing to listen or change behaviour, then step it up. At the end of the day, the Authorities may have to be brought in to ensure compliance with the law.

Taking the law into your own hands rarely works out well.

Most townships have bylaws for dogs running loose off their own property.
Neighbor up the road had to shoot 2 dogs that killed about 40 of his chickens
He warned the owner of the dogs and informed the bylaw officer but after so many complaints he did what he had to do.
He called the OPP after he shot the dogs and the officer called the bylaw officer to have the owner of the dogs charged for having their dogs running at large and they also had to pay for the chickens