I question your motivations in coming onto this site and complaining about dogs being on your land. Surely, you knew you would receive negative responses. Maybe you are a glutton for punishment???

I don't agree with your neighbors turning loose dogs on those 25 and 50 acre tracts next to you. If you are helping them catch their dogs and are cordial to them, they are going to keep doing it. I AM NOT advocating that you go buck wild on these boys, kill or injure a dog etc.. Here is a suggestion - Put up some locked gates on the accesses to your land - those hunters still can legally utilize their Right to Retrieve Law and walk onto your property to get their dogs - here is the kicker - once those ol boys have been forced to walk a long ways to get their dogs and bring them back on a leash (usually multiple dogs, which is no easy task) they will probably think at least twice about casting them on those small tracts again. They will huff and puff their way back to their trucks and think it just isn't worth it.

Here is another solution - Put up a 3 ft tall fence around your property. It's legal and wild game can still jump/cross the fences. Dogs cant. I have personally seen this work wonderfully on a 1200 acre tract in Powhatan County. The land owner stopped dogs from coming in and he had GIANT bucks, HUGE bear - he created his own ponderosa back there. Unfortunately for him, he fell on hard times and the land had to be auctioned but he had it all back there. The flier for the auction had a title of "sportsman's paradise" and it was just that. If you have that much land I would assume you could fence the property in and you would for sure solve all your problems and be "left alone". All by yourself

Mr. Wallace, maybe if you went on a good dog hunt you'd change your mind!!

I know you are right Mr. Jones, he needs to hear some good dogs run a buck to him and feel the hair on the back of his neck raise!