I hear you, but they do like to practice.
My buddy had a moose tag there this year and I hunted with him for a while. You kind of have to see the mix of urbanish to wilderness to truly picture it. We were hunting moose maybe five miles from a big outlet store mall and just outside the city. The designated wilderness is reached almost immediately by trail in this area.
We got on a group of moose just off a trail and not very far from the trailhead. I had multiple hikers with dogs, on leash and off, hike above me fifty yards away, while I was 75 yards from a bull. None of them were aware of either of us. I can totally picture how a dog could run into some on the trail and get pulverized, whether it instigated the encounter or not.
Shooting a moose to protect a dog that's out of your sight/control seems like adding one bad decision to another.
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