Unless you want to have the prohibitions of hunting big game (all big game in all places) changed you will create an administrative nightmare allowing big game hunters to be accompanied by dogs. As has already been stated, many breeds of dogs can be trained for many tasks that they were not bred for. There would be no good way to determine if a dog were being used to aid in hunting or not. If you are willing to have your dog tethered to you with a 6 ft. lead at all times while out hunting then you could ask for an "accompanied in direct control" with such a determination of in direct control, but to ask for otherwise opens an unnecessary host of enforcement difficulties.
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