I had a dog show up running a couple of does one year on my place. As soon as it saw me it hightailed it out of there. I did some searching and found the owner a mile down the road. Seems it showed up at their house a few months earlier injured. They planned on healing It up and then taking it to a shelter. Well, the wife got to liking it so they kept it. But they also found that being a hound, it never stayed home so they put a shock collar on it. Of course those don't work unless you actually use them, so it ended up running all over everyone's property. I knew other folks knew of this dog and told the owners, who had only been in the area for a year or so, that their dog was likely to get shot if it kept ruining folks turkey and deer hunts. I told him it had ruined mine, and although I'd never shoot their dog (hence my efforts to find and talk to them), I could not vouch for the other folks who'd lived here all their lives. He said he'd keep his dog up. And he did. I didn't hear it running for the rest of the season. But come spring, he started to let it run again. it never came on my land but I could hear it elsewhere. And then it stopped again. I ran into him around the end of turkey season and told him I appreciated him keeping his dog up during deer season. It was then he told me he had started letting it out again and he'd found it shot in a pasture on the adjoining property. Hard lesson to be learned.
