Just like coyote snaring is with modernized neck snares. No risk to bird dogs either when done legally.
It sure is especially nice if the bird hunting is done legally as well, no sneaking over the fence, trespassing, that kind of stupidity. I like law abiding bird hunters.
A great thing for those who are concerned about snares, that their dog could have an accident and get into a legally set snare. Simply teach your dog to tie, teach the dog to be able to be tied up on a leash. If he ever gets into a snare, a dog will generally treat the snare as though it is a leash and not fight it.
Once upon a time time, a friend caught a Great Pyrenees dawg in a Ram Powersnare, by the neck and it was no problem, the dawg was sitting there wagging his tail when the trapper showed up and released the dawg unharmed. The dawg was 5 miles from home. It turned out that the dawg was used to being tied up, and once caught, sat there and waited to be untied.
I believe later in life the dawg got shot by a farmer who was sick of the dawg running over to his farm, 5 miles away in the opposite direction from dawg's home.
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