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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(114,791 posts)
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:04 PM May 2022

Private property owners sue over Virginia's hunting dog law

WILSONS, Va. (AP) — Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens.

When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros’ property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.

“He told me, you can't prohibit people from coming onto your land,” recalled Medeiros.

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After years of putting up with baying dogs and dead chickens, Medeiros and several other property owners are suing the state over its “right to retrieve” law, arguing that allowing hunters to go on their property without permission amounts to an uncompensated taking of their land and violates the state and federal constitutions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-property-owners-sue-over-141505922.html

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Private property owners sue over Virginia's hunting dog law (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
That's crazy. Laffy Kat May 2022 #1
Wow. Seems like a unconstitutional search and seizure to me, put in a different way. SWBTATTReg May 2022 #2
That is so farking crazy. You can shoot a person for coming onto your land/house, but you can't Ferrets are Cool May 2022 #3
I'd have nailed huim with a civil suit over his damned dawgs Warpy May 2022 #4

SWBTATTReg

(24,011 posts)
2. Wow. Seems like a unconstitutional search and seizure to me, put in a different way.
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:30 PM
May 2022

Used to be that respectful folks used to ask permission of the landowners before entering someone's land to retrieve something of theirs. What gets me, is how do they know this? What if these trespassers are simply looking for a way to rob and pillage?

Ferrets are Cool

(21,951 posts)
3. That is so farking crazy. You can shoot a person for coming onto your land/house, but you can't
Wed May 11, 2022, 04:01 PM
May 2022

stop dogs and hunters. What a fucked up country we live in.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
4. I'd have nailed huim with a civil suit over his damned dawgs
Wed May 11, 2022, 04:26 PM
May 2022

I have to wonder if the Medeiros property was posted. If it was, they likely have grounds for a civil suit if the dawgs had injured or killed any of their chickens.

Otherwise, I'd want an owner to retrieve his pack if they strayed into my yard and I'd want them retrieved immediately.

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