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What breed of dog are we talking about?
If he is on a game cam it sounds like he is tracking (smelling) game (deer maybe?)
During hunting season this might not be good. I have a beagle mix that chases anything within 500 feet of my house.
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Coon Dog
He doesn't chase trash, we fixed that early with the e-collar on max
Pretty neat to watch really, he won't even look at a deer anymore unless its near the garden, then he knows it's ok to chase it back over the line. He will stop right at the road or just inside the woods though and come right back. If he gets on a coon though no amount of electricity will top him, I've had him treed right over an electric fence before and every time he put feet on the tree he would get nailed, that just pissed him off even more and feeds his hatred of coons. It took me almost 5 minutes to get to him that time, so he must have been really pissed.
But he does like to explore a bit. The neighbors pile their deer scraps each year out on the backside of their line and he can smell them as soon as they hit the ground. Little bastard drags back more legs and hides each year than I care to pick up in the spring, you think he would be content with all the scraps I bring home for him from where I hunt, but he just has to have them all.
I should add too, that I think the neighbors aren't from here originally, so they think the scent of the dog in the woods will scare the deer away forever. Not defending my dog or myself, it is my fault or allowing him over the line, but sometimes he slinks away. But on the farm we would be in a stand and the dog would come through the woods doing his dog thing, right under the stand, then 30 minutes later a deer would come walking right down the same trail like nothing was on their mind.