well today the bird got animal control called on him and it was quite funny i was tracking him down with telemetry when i found the officer trying to catch him but he went from the deck of my neighbor down the road to in a tree. The officer knew me and didn't care and the people where excited when i explained why my bird was sleeping on there deck. But I haven't had problems with dogs unless there is an extreme aggressive dog I would go for it the bird knows when something is wrong and will spend most it time in trees I'm going to try and stop the hack on June 16th if i can stretch it that far but if not oh well. But I am seeing big difference in the birds hacked in more rural areas and think this is the way to go for a dog tame bird i had kids jumping over my hawk on a perch today after i fed him up for the night.