Some studies show that wild animals can readily evade single dogs, but the effectiveness of packs of dogs is less well known. Some evidence suggests that packs with both sighting and scenting dogs are very effective in taking deer. There continues debate about whether dogs should be used in deer hunting. Dogs may disrupt the quality of various user's wildlife resource experience. The following strategies and data may be gathered in the future to help answer some of the above questions.
Responses are very much a function of the observer, time of day, date, and past experiences.
Data may be used in correlation studies and in the controlling variance in other studies of wildlife on the area. Of course free-roaming dogs can disrupt other aspects of life on the area. A complex set of tactics may be considered to form a cost-effective prevention and control strategy. Mail carriers or security patrol staff may be requested to report counts of dogs seen from roadways. Citizen and sportsperson field tours and inspection trips.