EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

The other day my wife and I were out checking a hog trap and we decided to take back roads going home. We came around a corner and I said "What the heck? That is the ugliest dog I have ever seen!" When we got closer it was a pit pup, about 2-3 mo old, starving, covered in fleas, and with a huge wormy belly. I got out and she ran over to me, stood on my boot and put her head between my legs. Needless to say, she went home with us. She is starting to look like a healthy pup now with a little feed, wormer, and flea medicine.

I said all that to say, I hope none of our ethd folks dump dogs. But if you do, please stop. Either have the mercy to put unwanted dogs down or find them a suitable home. Regardless of whether they are of any use to us or not, dogs are a living thing that deserve the respect to be either taken care of properly or humanely dispatched. Another good reason to not dump dogs is that it is a felony.

That being said, out of 10 stray dogs, one is my best strike dog, and all but 3 have turned out to be either usefull in the woods or the baypen. I'm not talking about just would bark at a hog, but get down and flat hunt, bay or catch swine. So sometimes someones trash can be someone elses treasure.

Let's be responsible and give hog hunters a reputation for solving problems, not creating them!

well said

Good post Levi!

Levi, with the luck youve been having with strays, you should be begging folks to drop their mutts off at your house!!!  ;D

But im with you on that, i cant stand to see a dog, especially a pup dumped out...  >:(

Good post!  ;D Couldn't agree more.

Good post

I agree 100%  :)

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Totally agree!!

I have such a high respect for people like you! I couldn't agree more. People need to have some humanity.

couldnt have said it better levi!

Levi, that may wind up being the best catch dog you ever owned.
Sounds like she'll be willing to do anything you ask of her in time.

If you'll dump a dog, then you should be charged with a felony. Not much chaps my rear more than seeing that....it's just plain wrong.

Well who know Levi with your luck with strays she`ll turn out to be a $500+ catch dog!!lol

Good post

Twilbanks maybe you should take a trip through the bottoms to see if you can come up with something better.... Lol j/k

Nothings worse than dumping dogs being a hired hand on a farm I have picked up a lot that were well mannered and then there are the ones that chase cows but after having two bottle calves I found about dead and fed them all winter killed by dumped out dogs there should be no mercy on ppl that do that cause its not my job to do what's right cause I only have one choice to pick from when they chase cows

ive kept a few dogs from suffering down there... they may not have gone home with me, but they sure didnt have to lay down there and starve to death...  ;)  :'(

I found 3 stray dogs down a backroad not too far from my pens 2 of them are black catahoulas and one is a pit/lab cross they have been so beaten that they wont come closer than 5 ft to me. i drove out to find them ysterday and they were there still skin and bones. i stopped and looked at them for a minute and drove off. then a guy followefd me into town and flagged me down and told me very rudely not to feed those dogs because they bay his cows, and that he was going to shoot them. i can see why hes mad about the cows but come on i didnt even feed them and he was a complete @$$hole this all could have been avoided if someone wouldnt have dumped them!

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I hear ya! I found a ybm on side of road this time last year and wasn't anymore thn 2 mon old looked like he hadn't ate in weeks so I took him in and he is good natured as can be. And he will hammer a hog! Will not bay is all catch. He has a good home now

i found a walker gyp tied to a tree one night, my dogs were bayin her and she was layin em down, took her home and she was pretty decent on a pig

i hate to see people dump out dogs but i have picked up a few that would flat burn up the woods to fine some pork

I said all that to say, I hope none of our ethd folks dump dogs. But if you do, please stop. Either have the mercy to put unwanted dogs down or find them a suitable home. Regardless of whether they are of any use to us or not, dogs are a living thing that deserve the respect to be either taken care of properly or humanely dispatched. Another good reason to not dump dogs is that it is a felony.



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100% agree

People dump dogs because the county or city has no rescue group, they figure its better to dump them than to take them to a killing city or county pound, it happens every day and its a reflection on todays society on the way we take care of the most needy animals and humans.  Where i live right now they go to the pounds around here and trade a hog for free dogs to toss into a hog race, we regularly see 1 or 2 every month trying to dig into my ranch or up here next to my kennel, its horrible to have to run them off and then see them run over on us 181 2 or 3 days later into a tortilla, the owners need to be bull whipped in public but it wont happen in my lifetime, this country has killed 50 million unborn children thru abortions, why would a dog matter???lol  Pretty soon they will be coming for the old dogs and hogdogs and next it will be the old geizers like me to dispose or leave laying in the woods for hog or yote bait.  Come to think of it I have not seen a hog dog rescue group on this site, is there anybody somebody can take dogs to so they dont have to be put down or dumped??  I will donate $100 if anybody ever gets a legit irs approved rescued hog dog kennel going??

I agree  don't dump a dog one of my catch dogs a pit as well was a dumped pup

I have thought this a thousand times! 9 times outta 10 that dumped dog will be a pit bull or something crossed with one! I want to start Last Chance Kennels and pick up all bulldogs off the road from the pound or shelter and see if I can't teach em a thing or two and give em a job in the hog huntin business. It will be puttin them to good use and gettin em off the streets and fed correctly!  I myself never had a use for pit bulls til I started hog huntin and now I think they are some of the best well mannered obedient dogs I have ever been around. I would rescue the dogs train them to do a job and sell them but not for profit the money would go right back into the dogs and future rescue dogs for dog food and medicine.
Just think the next time you decide to throw a dog out on the backroads what it would feel like to be thrown out in the middle of now where without anything!

i agree

Dog dumping is WAY worse then abortion. I would whip a dog dumper and i would comfort someone who had to have an abortion. People who are to weak minded to cull a dog somehow justify dumping, that amazes me.

First class post Levi, I live near a land fill and see it all the time . More times than not they go to running calves are killin someones chickens are tearin up garbage and then they get much worse than a humane put down .

Can't stand someone dumping dogs or someone hunting dogs with out a collar with name and ### on it !!!

Went to the cemetery with my wife to see her grandpa an there were 11 pups runnin around starving to death. I couldn't take all of ten but I took 5 of them an fed an watered the rest extremely well!! Te five I took I got starte on hogs ended up selling four of them an kept one. He isn't even a year ol yet been in the woods once an caught on both hogs we caught that night!!! Let him see some pigs last night in a trailer an he went plum sideways!!!!! People who dump dogs should be taken out back an handled accordingly!!! It's pathetic an just plum sorry!!!!

 [/quote]People who dump dogs should be taken out back an handled accordingly!!! It's pathetic an just plum sorry!!!!
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  I AGREE. SOMEBODY DUMPED 3 PITS IN MY FRIENDS YARD. I GUESS THEY FIGURED HE COULD USE THEM AS CATCH DOGS. WHAT THEY DID WAS GO BEHIND HIS HOUSE AND KILLED HIS TWO BEST DOGS. HE WAS WORKING ON HIS KENNELS AND HAD PUT THE DOGS ON CHAINS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. HE LOST TWO HIGH DOLLAR DOGS AND HAD TO DISPOSE OF THE PITS BECAUSE OF SOMEBODY ELSES LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY !

I never understood why people think that dropping a dog off somewhere to probably starve to death or worse was better than just putting the dog down.

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It's been a few weeks since you found him Levi, How's he looking? Post a pic of the lil feller.