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Pennsylvania · Through 2026-01-06 (Statute Update stamp, 34 Pa.C.S.)

34 Pa.C.S. § 2383: Dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.

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  1. Title 34 - GAME
  2. CHAPTER 23 HUNTING AND FURTAKING
  3. SUBCHAPTER E DOGS PURSUING GAME OR WILDLIFE

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned, controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase, scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big game.

(b) Exception.--It shall be lawful to do any of the following:

(1) Make use of a dog to pursue, chase, scatter and track wild turkeys during the fall wild turkey season.

(2) Make use of a leashed tracking dog to track a white-tailed deer, bear or elk in an attempt to recover an animal which has been legally killed or wounded during any open season for white-tailed deer, bear or elk.

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