By Paul Rogers
For a thousand years, dogs and hunting have gone together like bows and arrows, guns and bullets, predators and prey.
In medieval Europe, people tracked boars and stags with packs of hounds. Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned hunting dogs.
But simply because something is an old tradition doesn't mean it should continue, say animal-rights groups, whose efforts to ban the use of dogs to hunt bears and bobcats is gaining momentum in the California Legislature.
