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Dogging Deer- Meeting Convened by Orange County Staff, <br />12/8/09 <br />Concerns/Challenges Expressed by Private Property Owners <br />1) Enforcing existing trespassing statutes: Hunters driving onto other <br />people's property w/o permission, using excuses: "trying to retrieve my <br />dogs" <br />2) Trespassing: Hunters being verbally abusive and rude, physically <br />threatening; creating confrontations <br />3) Trespassing: Clubs misrepresenting themselves/making false claims of <br />permission <br />4) Animal control: Dogs left overnight <br />5) Animal control: Abandoned dogs hanging out on private property <br />6) Public safety -Sheriff, Wildlife Resources: Hunters shooting from the <br />roadway <br />7) Trespassing: Hunters ignoring requests/pleas to leave private property <br />8) Animal control: Claims by hunters they can't control what the dogs do and <br />where they go <br />9) Private property owners afraid their own dogs will wander off <br />10) Not that many large tracts of land (ideally 1000-1200 and even 2000 acres <br />would be needed) in northern Orange where dogs can run w/o crossing <br />other private property <br />11)Family members frightened by the sound of gunshots <br />12)Complained to the Sheriff and Wildlife for years -Hard to enforce if not <br />caught in the act of trespassing <br />13)Interfering with more traditional hunters <br />14)Claims they can kill more deer with dogs untrue <br />15)Chasing deer through pasture and breaking fences the owner has to <br />replace <br />16)Flat out dangerous period - 6 weeks of hunting season (Central NC gun <br />season) <br />17)GPS collars don't control the dogs -they just allow the hunters to more <br />effectively (shoot the deer) track and ultimately recover their dogs <br />18)Mode of operation is to drive down the road and shoot the deer in the <br />middle of the road -unsafe! <br />19)Fractures peace and quiet <br />20)"Gang mentality" among the hunters; they show up in large numbers <br />21)Neighbors are afraid of speaking up; Landowners are intimidated <br />22)Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt <br />23)The day of dog hunting is over; shouldn't have to happen! (As is apparent <br />from it being outlawed in adjacent counties as well as south of I-85). <br />24)Women shouldn't have to be subjected to this; very uncomfortable <br />speaking up <br />25)Hunters disappear before game warden arrives on the scene <br />