Back before we hunted "game" for sport, back when a buck was a deer and not also another word for currency, we used dogs. That is why they became man's best companion. When lives were on the line, the hunters brought in the dogs. And something tells me that dogs, like people, were a helluva lot tougher then than they are now. A wolf would've thought twice before trying to steal meat from a hunter's dog. When hunting is for feeding hungry mouths at home, the semantics about how and why go right down the tube. That being said, most people will agree that hunting regulations are a good thing. Hunting deer with a dog is pretty common place here in the south, so its not a far stretch to envision a hunter using a dog to trail wounded game. I don't see what the big deal is. That's what game wardens get paid for, right? If a state has a law that allows dogs to recover deer but not hunt deer, just write tickets to folks who are hunting instead of recoving. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who was doing which.