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Related: About this forumPrivate 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
Laffy Kat
(16,516 posts)SWBTATTReg
(24,011 posts)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)stop dogs and hunters. What a fucked up country we live in.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)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.