Thread: dogs chasing deer.

With gps collars these days, guys just let their dogs roam for miles. What happens when the get hold of a sow or piglet when your 1km away? The dogs usually just chew it to bits

Originally Posted by MSL

With gps collars these days, guys just let their dogs roam for miles. What happens when the get hold of a sow or piglet when your 1km away? The dogs usually just chew it to bits

Dogs hunted out for miles before GPS collars were invented, only thing now is you have a fair idea where your dogs are. If the dogs catch a small pig at a distance the death is still quicker than 1080.

Originally Posted by MSL

With gps collars these days, guys just let their dogs roam for miles. What happens when the get hold of a sow or piglet when your 1km away? The dogs usually just chew it to bits

What about when they hit a stroppy boar??

Tracking gear is used in many differnt ways, by many different people with differnt types of dogs doing many differnt types of hunting. Please do not take the above as gospel, leaving a dog a k away holding a pig at this time of year for half an hour would harm or kill a dog with heat exhaustion. The effort required to get a dog going and / or to get a really good dog is why people invest big $$$$ in this gear! So they know where there dogs are and can get to them as quickly as possible.

Yes dogs kill piglets, possoms, goats, deer, rabbits etc....so do hunters/shooters ...some a lot less cleanly than others, PLEASE let's not start pointing fingers!