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Whew! We've carried this "dog" of a subject a long ways, with me into the fencing laws. I am old enough (63) to remember hearing people talk about driving real carefully at night in south Georgia, where apparently the State had not gotten around to enacting a fencing law, so that stock -- cows mainly -- would get out in the road, and they were a menace to cars and stock alike. I think that was true up to about 1940. And North Florida also had open range for a long time. But you can still occasionally see, on the back roads, hogs rooting around loose out by the roads. Fence law be damned. My well-bred Wisconsin born wife was appalled when she first saw it (Telfair County, Ga, ca 1993; she still talks about it). Being an old Southern country boy, I thought it was just part of the landscape.
Of course, there is still a lot of open range in the West.
Lee

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