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I recently heard about a couple and their puppy who were attacked by bear-hound hunting dogs this past October on public land. I hope that the Legislature will take up the hounding issue this coming session.
Sadly, hounds can be run all year and training seasons occur when bears, raccoons, bobcats, and other animals are tending to and nursing their young.
For those happily unaware about what hounding involves, it's where a hunter allows a pack of hounds to run, chase, take down, or tree (and more often than not, repeatedly bite and rip apart) wild animals.
Hounders sit in their trucks, while their dogs, on GPS collars, run miles until the GPS shows the dogs are staying in one spot on a target. The hounders then drive (as far as they can) and then walk to where the dogs are. This may be hours later.
