EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

This morning, not the super star, but our young Catahoula pup named Dolly Parton for her first trip to the woods. I think she must be pretty good luck.
Started off with a pretty morning and a quick strike, the hogs tried to make a break for the feild but turned and headed back into the woods where a nice boar decided to make a stand, 3 seasoned dogs and Dolly Parton were baying hard as we walked in to watch the dogs work a few seconds before sending Cotton & Smoochy to work, as they entered the zone the boar lunged to meet and greet the two white dogs head on each had their own ear and the boar lunged once and the white dogs dug in and that was when the boar went to huffing !
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Dolly Parton with her first hog in the woods
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Then we got ourselves gatherd back on the Rhino, and continued on, was not long and they had several sows & pigs bayed, we eased in again to make sure Dolly had a chance to work a bit before sending the Catch power, Smooch caught a sow about 85-90 and Cotton chased his own down as did the bay dogs, catching 4 from this bunch.
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Roo & her sow

 Regrouped ourselves and loaded two of the oldest dogs, let Deuce & Dolly keep hunting. Deuce opended and we cut the other two  gyps loose. Then we had two bays going on :-\
 On the way to Deuce hammering, a nice sow runs about 30-40 yards in front of me and freezes. My  Smooch is intense zoned in, Thomas still has his dog so I let her fly!
Hog stays put, actully turns into hit Smooch on her way in, pops her and breaks with Smooch on her heels, Thomas goes to the closer baying dogs which was to be Roo and Dolly.
turns out my Catch dog catches her sow on the wrong side of the riverbank, maybe 50 yds from the bay Thomas was heading too. I still had to wade across as I was fussing at Smooch for letting her get across the water.
So Thomas was sticking his sow at the same time as I can hear him talking to the dogs as I was sticking my wet one. we can hear baying still going on, and I got get back across the river!
After a good sloppy wet walk I get there, all the dogs are there baying now, and I am trying to get an idea of where Thomas went.  I See the dogs baying and trying to keep em all bunched as some of these sows were pretty agressive and kept charging at the dogs I could count about 30 visible on my side of the trees, and could hear more out of site. I see White dog entering my line of site, so I send Smooch, I watch the two in a race to get to the lead sow, thinking just like brother & sister competing!
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(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_mFSDOgRZVlo/S9c9i55zF0I/AAAAAAAAM4k/fbVI0LfxPxU/s640/P4270420.JPG) Smooch looking like I felt!
Deuce rolled out again and was bayed .67 miles away, we had to find the gap and finally got her back as I was ready to get some lunch and After all that Dolly was the only dog still good to go, Roo had her shoulder chewed on by that sow pretty good and was limping, Sassy had her pad cut and a quickly swelling snake bit leg, and at some point Juicy Deuce had  gotten bitten in the foot, cutting the meat between her toes, and now was hobbling around, Time To HEAD HOME

Sounds like a good morning to me, it always nice to know you left that many for next time!

dang, that's a lot of hogs.  smoochy looks a little beat. 

Sounds like an awesome hunt! Hope your dogs heal up quick.

NICE HOGS

Sounds like an action packed hunt. Thats a lot of hogs, hope your dogs heal up and get the rest they need for another hunt like this one.

Sounds like a great hunt. Good looking dogs.  ;)

Your catch dog looks like me after a hunt, Good hunt man  Congratulations on your puppy

NICE hogs sounds like fun day

Now, from the title, that's not the pics I was expecting to see! :o


But, it looks like y'all had a good hunt! ;D

sounds like a hellofa hunt wish id been there.

Krystal that is awesome! So glad to see Dolly out in the woods. I just get more and more excited for August to get here and get Hote down there and get him goin! How is Shayla doing? Seemed like she was the grittier of the two pups last time I saw them, but that was over a month ago.

Tobe

man sounds like a fun and awesome hunt.

i thought i was being original, i just got a new catahoula bitch and named it dolly. what are the odds?

Good hunt, like the catch dog...

WHEW!!!  Another one of your hunts that I get tired just reading!!!  :o  Sounds like a good hunt and that Dolly is well on her way to earning a place in the pack!!  Hope everyone gets healed and rested up soon!!  Awesome job to all!!!

That was a good hunt. Why you name her Dolly? She have nice ones?

Thank Everyone for the kind comments!

Tobe, the only reason I got Dolly in the woods is because she has no end to her energy and really needed a job in a bad way to keep her sane! the other sister is not as mature is some aspects and I have no problem waiting on her for awhile, I have confidence she is gonna do the work, I see no need to rush her. I look forward to Hote coming here this summer.

Rex, can't say she has a nice rack or anything but she is a beautiful blonde destined to have a big voice!

Great Hunt! Nice boar, and sows...thats how you do it.

How did you treat the snake bite?

good hunting!! good pics and nice dogs!!

SOunds like a fun action packed hunt. Good to hear dolly is doing well. I always love to see smoochie hit a hog too, she is always so calm and patient but when she gets let loose, she hits like a ton of bricks.

Sounds like an action packed hunt, KR!!
I've seen lots of photos of Thomas holding a hog for a picture.  I swear he looks EXACTLY the same in 90% of them.

Poor Cotton....hunting with all those GIRLS!!