Before Bear Management Units and during the inception we had major problems with dogs in northwestern Ontario . Many complaints to the MNR but all was legal . I owned a bear hunting/outfitting/guiding service for 10 years and we all , including the COs referred to these pigs as "Pork and Beaners". They'd come from North Carolina , Arkansas and Georgia with trailers filled with dogs and fully outfitted for themselves and never spend one cent in Canada aside for a bear license and back then as many licenses as someone wanted to buy .
I ran 90 baits over a very large area , worked very hard to do it and it costs a lot of money up from before the clients arrive . The dog pig pork and beaners would show up and run their dogs through any area they wanted , shoot everything and all of my work was down the drain . I tried to talk to several parties of these guys and either got laughed at or threatened . That's when the shooting started . I'd shoot every dog i saw and i shot a lot of them .
Through networking we found out who most of the bear guides and outfitters were in northwestern Ontario , contacted them and invited them to a meeting at the Airline Hotel in Thunder Bay . We though about 30 would attend . 90 showed up with some of the biggest outfitters and lodges in attendance . We thought it was a mostly local problem in the Thunder Bay area but it wasn't . These pork and bean dog pigs were showing up everywhere in northwestern Ontario and many were employing the same solution , shoot the dogs .
That evening we formed the North Western Ontario Bear Guides Association and almost instantly we aquired a measure of political power as we started getting meetings with the head of wildlife enforcement , area managers and the Minister himself . Within 6 months , before the following spring hunt the regs were changed and heavy restrictions were placed on dog hunters . Not one pork and beaner showed up after that .
Fast forward . I own a section of land and keep 10 to 12 trail cams out 12 months per year . 3 years ago a pack of 5 or 6 dogs started running and in two cases killing the deer that were feeding on my food plots . While working on a food plot one day i could hear barking and knew the dogs were about and getting closer . I hoisted the shotgun and made ready . Within seconds a deer blasted across the food plot and the dogs were in hot pursuit . I killed two and wounded one and the others scattered . I haven't seen any dogs on my property since but if i do they'll get shot .
Some will say , who could ever shoot a dog ? The answer is , me . In the first case i may have spent $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 before my clients ever arrived only to thave the Arkansas pigs show up and by using their dogs kill every bear within miles . In the second case proper food plotting is hard work and expensive , maybe $5,000.00 for every deer harvested on my land and i do it to selectively harvest and not shred and kill for fun like a pack of dogs will .
A single dog , no problem but dogs running in packs like coyotes or wolves , now we have a problem . In the case of OP , his single dog on my land , i'd see if i could identify it by tags or radio collar and get it back to the owner . If it was 3 dogs on the hunt it would be 3 dead dogs and a smashed radio collar .
