Interesting . . . The only thing people hunt around here with hounds are cougars, AFAIK.
IMO it's pretty silly to allow a dog to run all over someone else's property, just because it's a hound. Every time we hear about a loose dog running into a DA dog's yard we say, "The loose dog's owner should be more responsible," (which I agree with.) Well, I don't think letting a PACK of loose dogs run onto someone else's land is any better.
"It's a tradition!" Yeah, and it started when the land was much more rural with a lot fewer people living on it.
My experience, which is primarily with fox hunters and beaglers (which is fox hunting on foot for rabbits, basically) is that they never delibrately let the dogs go where they aren't invited. They are pretty picky about it, and determined to be good neighbors and citizens. But we ARE talking about a pack of unleashed dogs . . . that are pursuing a wild animal. Sometimes, espeically if they are chasing deer or coyote (which they are NOT supposed to do, but it happens) they get partially out of the control of the huntsman. THen you just have to follow them until they stop, all the time trying to call them back with the horn. It doesn't happen often, and huge effort goes into training them not to . . . Dad's saga with deer has been going on my whole life, and believe me, it is not at all desired, and a huge ammount of training time goes into it. The fox hounds and coyotes are a particular nightmare, because there's a lot less difference (to a dog) between a coyote and a fox than between a rabbit and a deer.
The people I know have always done their best. But these things WILL happen. Now, I have no doubt that some people (probably those who hunt with guns, primarily) do go onto other people's land saying they lost their dog with the intent to hunt there. I don't know how you stop them. Dad caught some people on our land, claiming they had been pursuing a wounded deer (this was in KY). HE was pretty sure that a) they'd initally shot it on our land, and b) they'd been shining deer, not just hunting them. But prove it! Note this isn't meant as a swipe at gun hunters, but it is a different tradition, and there the point is to actually catch something, while the fox hutners and beaglers (in the US) prefer NOT to catch anything . . .they just want to run the fox or rabbit to ground and enjoy the chase.
So, there is a battle between tradition and development going on, to be sure. But its a very old tradition, and very new development, and, at least one type of hound hunters really tries to be good neighbors. But things will go wrong, its sort of inevitable. And these people have done this their whole lives . . .. often for generations . . . and suddenly there are subdivisions popping up everywhere . . . its tough . . . there's going to have to be accomidation, or some very old sports will disappear, and with them, some of the most ferocious defenders of open space and maintaining farmland against development. Which people should take into account . . .most the hunters I know are fierce defenders of wildlands, farmlands, and wildlife . .. ever seen a developer give a sh!t?