Hunting Dogs

Each hunting dog must have a collar with its owner’s name, phone number and address. Waterfowl retrievers do not need to wear collars while hunting or retrieving so long as the collar bearing the owner’s name, address and phone number is carried. Handguns or shotguns with blank ammunition may be used while training bird dogs.

Individuals or organizations may hold captive on a temporary basis raccoons, foxes, coyotes or pen-raised quail for the purposes of dog training or sanctioned field trials with the approval of the AGFC chief of wildlife management.

Using dogs to chase wildlife for pleasure is prohibited April 1-May 15 with these exceptions: 1) hunting within fox and coyote enclosures, 2) during sanctioned field trials, and 3) chasing for pleasure is allowed from 60 minutes after sunset until 60 minutes before sunrise, from April 1-May 15.

Coyotes and foxes may not be chased for pleasure during a firearms deer season where dogs are prohibited. The only killing equipment that may be carried is that which may legally be used in a hunting season open at the time and place of the chase.

During the spring youth turkey hunt, the use of dogs to chase wildlife is prohibited from 60 minutes before sunrise until 60 minutes after sunset.

Dogs may be used to chase deer for training purposes Oct. 1-Dec. 31, from 30 minutes before sunrise until 30 minutes after sunset, only in deer zones where dogs can legally be used for hunting deer during the modern gun deer seasons. Possession of a killing device is prohibited when using dogs to chase wildlife for pleasure or when training/allowing dogs to chase deer unless a modern gun deer season is open when and where dogs are allowed.

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