Editing Hunting (section)

===Use of dog===
[[File:'Jachtgezellen' Rijksmuseum SK-A-1023.jpeg|thumb|''Hunting Companions'', [[Dutch people|Dutch]] 19th-century painting featuring two dogs, a [[shotgun]] and a game bag]]

Although various other animals have been used to aid the hunter, such as [[ferrets]], the dog has assumed many very important uses to the hunter. 
The domestication of the dog has led to a [[Symbiosis|symbiotic relationship]] in which the dog's independence from humans is deferred. Though dogs can survive independently of humans, and in many cases do ferally, when raised or adopted by humans the species tends to defer to its control in exchange for habitation, food and support.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://huntingguide.info/|title=The Hunting Guide >> Read Before Hunt|website=Hunting Guide|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-15|archive-date=14 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114234714/https://huntingguide.info/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dogs today are used to find, chase, retrieve, and sometimes kill game. Dogs allow humans to pursue and kill prey that would otherwise be very difficult or dangerous to hunt. Different breeds of specifically bred [[hunting dog]] are used for different types of hunting. Waterfowl are commonly hunted using retrieving dogs such as the [[Labrador Retriever]], the [[Golden Retriever]], the [[Chesapeake Bay Retriever]], the [[Brittany Spaniel]], and other similar breeds. [[Upland game bird|Game birds]] are flushed out using flushing [[spaniel]]s such as the [[English Springer Spaniel]], the various [[Cocker Spaniel]]s and similar breeds.

The hunting of wild mammals in England and Wales with dogs was banned under the [[Hunting Act 2004]]. The wild mammals include fox, hare, deer and mink. There are, however, exceptions in the Act.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/hunting/ |title=Hunting with dogs « Defra |publisher=Defra.gov.uk |date=18 February 2005 |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=22 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222025403/http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/hunting/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Nevertheless, there have been numerous attempts on behalf of activists, pressure groups, etc. to revoke the act over the last two decades.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why we must continue to campaign for repeal of the Hunting Act 2004 |url=https://www.vote-ok.co.uk/hunting |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.vote-ok.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Misguided and futile: time to repeal the Hunting Act |url=https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/05/09/misguided-and-futile-time-to-repeal-the-hunting-act/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.oxfordstudent.com |date=9 May 2018 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=English votes for English laws could end hunting ban |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11323563/English-votes-for-English-laws-plan-could-end-hunting-ban.html |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=The Telegraph |date=4 January 2015 |language=en-GB}}</ref>