Virginia hunters please call 1-800-889-0229 during regular business hours and let them know you oppose House Bill 2531. if this bill passes you will not be able to go retreive your dog unless you have permission to do so from the land owner; this goes for any type of hunting, coon, bear, rabbit, deer, bird, etc. lets show we care, call and let them know!!!

this is the current law they want to change

§ 18.2-136. Right of certain hunters to go on lands of another; carrying firearms or bows and arrows prohibited.

Fox hunters and coon hunters, when the chase begins on other lands, may follow their dogs on prohibited lands, and hunters of all other game, when the chase begins on other lands, may go upon prohibited lands to retrieve their dogs, but may not carry firearms or bows and arrows on their persons or hunt any game while thereon. The use of vehicles to retrieve dogs on prohibited lands shall be allowed only with the permission of the landowner or his agent.

(Code 1950, § 29-168; 1964, c. 600; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1988, c. 593; 1991, cc. 317, 327