Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
I'm all for it. Homo sap has been hunting with dogs since first we got dogs.
Bird dogs. Deer dogs. Lion dogs. Hog dogs. Bear dogs. What's the basic problem from an ethics standpoint?
The objections stem mostly from today's chopped up land ownership. Hard to keep deer dogs inside just one tract, since deer can't read property titles--nor can the dogs. But that's not an ethics deal.
If the hunting take is in balance without the use of dogs, there's no justification in using them as a hunting tool. Seems to me. The issue is then one of the basic enjoyment of hunting with dogs. Read MacKinlay Kantor's "The Voice of Bugle Ann".
One thing to consider as you think about it--and please think, rather than emote --is that there is a difference between not doing something because it's not your style and not doing something because of ethics issues. There are lots of things I won't do in hunting, but it's not an ethics thing so much as it's just not what I want to do.
Art
Bird dogs. Deer dogs. Lion dogs. Hog dogs. Bear dogs. What's the basic problem from an ethics standpoint?
The objections stem mostly from today's chopped up land ownership. Hard to keep deer dogs inside just one tract, since deer can't read property titles--nor can the dogs. But that's not an ethics deal.
If the hunting take is in balance without the use of dogs, there's no justification in using them as a hunting tool. Seems to me. The issue is then one of the basic enjoyment of hunting with dogs. Read MacKinlay Kantor's "The Voice of Bugle Ann".
One thing to consider as you think about it--and please think, rather than emote --is that there is a difference between not doing something because it's not your style and not doing something because of ethics issues. There are lots of things I won't do in hunting, but it's not an ethics thing so much as it's just not what I want to do.
Art