The lawsuit to oppose the California Fish and Game’s approval of GPS collars on hounds to hunt deer and pigs and for training is alive and well but now on hold. Now the FGC has proposed to BAN GPS collars on hounds for pursuing/killing mammals until further “analysis” is completed. This is certainly the right step, but they should have also included a ban on GPS collars for hound “training” as well. Because time is of the essence, please send an email to the FGC at fgc@fgc.ca.gov and ask them to ADD to their proposed GPS hound collar ban (Section 265, Title 14, CCR) the words, “or for dog training.” Comments received BEFORE Tues, Nov 22, noon (Pacific Time), are sent to the commissioners. After that, they are made “available,” to them, but marked “late.” If you only have time to send one sentence, make it: “To the proposed amendment to Section 265, please add a ban on dog training with GPS collars.” To read the new proposed amendment, go to: http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/2016/265regs100716.pdf To read more details, go to: http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/2016/index.aspx#265_2 and scroll down to, “Use of Dogs for the Pursuit/Take of Mammals” If you can imagine untrained hounds rampaging through wildlife habitat and terrorizing species, you will understand some of the horrors of allowing GPS collars on hounds. Hounders should have to stay with their dogs, especially in any training, to not harass wildlife. In your message to the FGC, you might include thanking them for doing the right thing by proposing a ban on GPS collars for pursuing and killing wildlife, along with any of these talking points: Untrained dogs should be kept on a leash and not released to prey on wildlife. GPS collars on untrained dogs will only stress wildlife to unhealthy limits. Trainers or hounders should never allow hounds to range out of sight, but this is exactly what happens. Non-targeted wildlife are at risk for being mauled, terrorized, stressed to death, chased to exhaustion, or killed by hounds before the hounder can get to the scene. Hound hunting has no place in any ethical hunting culture. Hounds need to be micro-chipped and not be allowed off leash—dogs can follow a scent whether they’re on or off a leash. Thanks for your wonderful, continued support on this issue.