Hunting: deer: use of dogs.

Existing law, with specified exceptions, makes it unlawful to permit or allow any dog to pursue any big game mammal during the closed season on that mammal, to pursue any fully protected, rare, or endangered mammal at any time, to pursue any bear or bobcat at any time, or to pursue any mammal in a game refuge or ecological reserve if hunting within that refuge or ecological reserve is unlawful. Existing law authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to capture a dog not under the reasonable control of its owner or handler that is pursuing these animals in violation of this prohibition or to capture or dispatch a dog inflicting injury or immediately threatening to inflict injury on these…