TRACKING DEER WITH DOGS - SOLUTIONS: Controlling a 
problem that dogs East Texas...Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

It's illegal for hunters to track deer with dogs. And Game 
Warden, Major Robert Carlson, says violators can be 
relentless.
	
For decades we have had the running deer with dog issue and 
some 20 years ago when they made it illegal, we just had a 
significant number of folks that just wouldn't quit it. We have 
been actively working on reducing the number of calls, the 
number of violations that occur with hunting deer with dogs. :20
 
Wardens developed strategies to deal with the crime.

Some of the things we've done is for 3 years during deer season 
we had special operations where we brought in about a dozen 
wardens from across the state. Every time one of the violators 
loaded a dog, we made sure they seen a Game Warden truck. 
And so that reduced their opportunity to actually hunt. :16

A change in the law helped Wardens with enforcement.

Basically what those law changes, and proclamation changes did, 
was it helped us because it made the offense of hunting deer with 
dogs easier to prove and it also made it a higher class 
misdemeanor with the opportunity for it to become a felony with 
subsequent charges. :17
 
That's our show for today...we had research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger...For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti.