EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

The avg. hunter age post got me to thinking about this, I bet some of you guy's have had some old dogs.??

When I was 12 we lost a pit x black lab cross that was my dad's,there's a pic of him with me when I was a baby so he was at least 13, he was blind and had no teeth, only ate mom's left over biscuits and mashed potatoes. Even though he was blind,he would be the first one to the gate when someone pulled up to the house, he could also retrieve dove still, Dad walked a horse over him and he died from those injury's ....

When I was growing up my dad had a old mutt named nemo that he got from the pound. He was one of those dogs that you could let run loose and he would disappear for weeks at a time then show back up skinny, beat up and covered in cow poo. This dog had been shot in the eye, ran over on several occasions and been in countless fights with other neighborhood dogs. Ol nemo lived to be damn near 17 years old and one night we brought him to our new house for the first time and he took off and never showed back up. Till this day I have never seen a better dog!

I have a 12 year old still hunting. He don't get out much but when we take him, he will show us hogs every time. My son caught 3 with him in one hunt a few weeks ago. That old dog was completely worn out afterwards. I don't think he even moved for 2 days other than to eat.

I got a red heeler that came all the way from pocatella, idaho that just turned 15. Best cow dog I've ever seen. Still works a little by hand signals cause hes def but mainly a, porch dog.

I got a BMC named Okefeenokee Cowboy that is 11 years old with cataracts in both eyes that is still my number one dog!  He still gets out and finds them.  Hard to find heart like that anymore!

Got a 12 year old red healer that was supposed to have died from heart worms two years ago. Still herding the mailman everyday and keeping the dead beats ran off.

had a blue heeler for 14 years just buried him couple months ago

 My oldest dog was 11yrs. old, but one of my good friend's best strike dog just turned 18 this month...He doesnt hunt anymore but he did trail a wounded deer this past season.....

I had a male and female that I hunted for 12 seasons.

I had a male cat. that died at 14 but not from old age. He was straight catch, would not hunt at all and would not go to a bay till he saw the hog. It was great not having to lead a catch dog. I bayed a boar hog right behind the house and he followed me out there and went to  baying. I was thinking dam it took 14 years for him to learn how to bay and then he saw me and tried to catch with no teeth. He didn't make it threw it but at least that old fart died doing what he loved.
RIP.    DJ 

we had a couple of german shepards that were 14 and 16 when they died, the average age of my dogs at time of death is 8

I knew an old man that had a dog that lived to be 18. He owned a store and fed the dog a Milky Way candy bar every single day of its life. That was a good dog. I'm thinking my rat terrier is going to out live me. He has been run over a half doozen times by everything from 4 wheelers to trucks, to tractors... snake bit, shot, and everything else you can think of. Been thinking about putting him in my will... just don't know who i'd leave him to.

rusty my dads cd lived as a cd for 13 Years died two summers a go had two dogs go that day rusty and molley my riged back it was a hot day and thay were old. good dogs last us a long time

i have a pitt CD that is, best any of us can figure, 12 years old.....she hunts just about every weekend...she want be the first one to the bay, but I will guarantee that she is caught when you get there

Back when I hunted waterfowl I raised a Lab that lived to be over 12, one of my hog hunting buddies had a Plott that lived to be over 14 and could still strike and run a hog....he was as tough as whet leather and straight hog or bear, and he has dogs out of him.....good for us.

I do not mean to brag but I have a 16 yr old ybm male that is still an awesome hunter But the reason he is still getting it done is I have feed him Redcell for dogs to him since he was 3yrs old I found out from a breeder of rottweilers that was his secret

i have a 9 yr old pit  hs dog  shes still got some life in her 

Bryan, Jennifer and I both would kick your hiney if one of us didn't wind up with woody, and you know it!

My old Dixie female turned 14 this past March 23, 2011. She is retired, lays around on the porch and babysits a pup now and then. She still is in fairly good health, other than missing a few teeth and arthritis from running so much when she was young. Course, she is a tad overweight.......

A cur, greyhound and pit cross.... really not sure.  We imagined he had pit, as he was so catchy until he lost most his teeth.  He could beat a pure greyhound in a sprint.  Maybe he was 100% cur.

He would beat greyhounds in rabbit trials when young and was just another RCD  for his first 5 years of hog hunting.  He would get all cut up.  But after he lost most of his teeth be became a cracker jack strike and bay dog.  he is the second "catch dog" i have had that turned into a top find and bay dog in his golden years.   Dog in photo barked quite a bit on the scent trail, but he got us the big boars.

He died at 16.5 years age of a diabetic coma.  He was hunting all night long two days before when this photo was taken.  Toothless but still getting it done.

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I just got a reg. cat gyp that is eleven. She was given to me, turned out she had heartworms. I picked her up from the vet today. I think she will be well worth the cost 345.00. She rolls out on caught hogs and finds her own. Had lots of go just didn't have any stamina wouldn't last long. She will be ready in six or seven weeks.   

i have half pitt half bulldog he is 11 and up until this year he always acted like a 2 year old dog he is now starting to slow down he has been a great cd i have no worries going to a bay when he is turned loose

I have a 15 year old heeler, a 12 year old (soon to be 13, in September) female pitbull, a 10 year old male pitbull, and a soon to be nine year old male pitbull!

Had a 1/2 AB X 1/2 Cur cd that was just over 10years old. made his last hunt just a couple of months before he died. Man he had the battle scars.