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here is another topic to try and heat things up for a little while

Question - If you own the property and deer/squirrels/whatever are on the property, do you own the animals? Does the State/Feds own them - ie (State regulates them)? Does it matter if the animals migrate from property to property? I'm not talking about migratory birds (Feds regulate them).

I'm not getting into fair chase/ethics of fencing.

hmmm good thought......

Had a game warden tell my brother one time that the state owns the animal and he took him. My brother was being a dumb booty and hunting with a shotgun during primative weapon. I then told my brother that he should have him send the rent check to his address for all the seed, corn in the off season, diesel, gas, and maintanience.

very good point....

How come if the state owns the animals, we pay the state land tax that the animal lives on and off of??? Shouldn't they be paying us for housing their property? At least, like storage space or something?

in my opinion nobody owns the animals unless you pay for them, that is a very interesting topic and could be looked at from many different angles

No one owns the animals. If you sell the land are you going to take them with you or are the figured into the price?? Come on that is ridiculous.
God put them here we are just privileged enough to enjoy them.

Hole Hunter wrote:No one owns the animals. If you sell the land are you going to take them with you or are the figured into the price?? Come on that is ridiculous.
God put them here we are just privileged enough to enjoy them.

I agree with you 100%

But my comment was in response the the guy early who said the state official told him the state owned the animal he took. It's ludacris. The state governs the animals just like the govern the people, but they don't own anything but the drawers on their hind end!

I voted no.

I would never hunt in one or care about it but if the person owns the land should have the right to fence it.

Sure they are figured into the price. Do you think the land around the Big Black or inside the Mississippi River levee is selling because of its access to good schools and restaurants? Would the same land without a single deer on it sell for thousands an acre? Is timber figured into the value of property - you own the timber, do you not own the animals?

Bercy wrote: Is timber figured into the value of property - you own the timber, do you not own the animals?

I see your point, but the problem with it is that timber doesn't roam. If you have a tree that's 3 feet inside your property line, it's always gonna be there on your land, but take a deer that's 3 feet on that same side of the line, and if he/she takes 2 or 3 steps he's on a different person'e land.

I vote no. But I do think that they ought to be regulated heavily though.

I've never hunted behind a fence.
I don't think anyone should be able to tell a landowner what kind of fence he can put around his property.

I believe I read somewhere about a high fence place in Iowa but I am not sure if that is the state or not. ANyway I know that whatever state it was allowed a landowner to put up a high fence compound. Then they flew the property and counted the animals on there and sent the landowners a bill. Once that was completed the landowners owned the deer herd and could (with some rules of course) manage the herd as they saw fit. I feel if there is a way to do this in a high fence situation that should be the case. Otherwise someone is taking deer from you and I that we will never get to hunt again. Unless of course they plan on making the high fence area open to the public.

i was asking this because my cousin heard that some people that own a little over 700 acres just south of his camp are supposedly bringing in 1500lbs of corn a month and are planning on fencing the place in this summer or sometime before deer season