I see a neighbors dog from time to time, but never have a problem with strays. I can still hunt inside, but I did move some feeders around & don't have a feeder behind the house. I mainly moved it because of our dogs in the morning when let out would chase the deer off. So I moved it to the very back after I did some mulching in the back & moved my tripod. The feeder on the other side of the creek I turned into a gravity protein feeder. I got tired of filling the gravity tree hangers every 3 days.