velojym
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Cobrien45,
We have a great GSP. Beautiful, smart, and is great with our baby girl. We do have to keep control of her, though, as she will take interest in nearby forest critters and temporarily forget that she's supposed to stay near the house. Our other dog, a weirdly comical Collie-Catahoula mix, doesn't ever go far from our Shorthair.
I used to work for Animal Control, and I'd have people vigorously insist that their dogs never left their yard, and some of them I'd picked up over a mile from home... in town. It's hard to admit, sometimes, that our dogs are out of our control, but it does happen.
As for confronting the trespassers, I really don't think there's much else you can do other than politely invite them to leave.
Immediately calling the authori-TAHs won't be taken kindly, and should wait until you've seen that the hunters aren't willing to listen to reason. The earlier mentioned idea of keeping in radio contact is a good one, I think. Even if there isn't anyone on the other end, you can talk into a bluetooth type headset as if there was.
We have a great GSP. Beautiful, smart, and is great with our baby girl. We do have to keep control of her, though, as she will take interest in nearby forest critters and temporarily forget that she's supposed to stay near the house. Our other dog, a weirdly comical Collie-Catahoula mix, doesn't ever go far from our Shorthair.
I used to work for Animal Control, and I'd have people vigorously insist that their dogs never left their yard, and some of them I'd picked up over a mile from home... in town. It's hard to admit, sometimes, that our dogs are out of our control, but it does happen.
As for confronting the trespassers, I really don't think there's much else you can do other than politely invite them to leave.
Immediately calling the authori-TAHs won't be taken kindly, and should wait until you've seen that the hunters aren't willing to listen to reason. The earlier mentioned idea of keeping in radio contact is a good one, I think. Even if there isn't anyone on the other end, you can talk into a bluetooth type headset as if there was.