EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

One my lead dogs runs out finds hogs and usually keeps um bayed till help arrives last couple weeks she's got on a hog pushin 150-200 she's ran him literally right in front of us they keep breaking on her run bout 1000 yards and watch her sto on garmin , then she comes back I think the hog may be barrelin threw palm patches that she can't get threw or something she's never let hog get away prior , something wrong u think or should I work her on a big hog in pin bayin it up and workin on her sittin it down or what , I'm stumped

Every time I have one of our old dogs start doing something out of the ordinary, I pull blood on them and everytime we have found something wrong. Most of the time it's been a tick born diseas and one had swine brucelossis. By catching it quick, they got right over it. This is where it pays to know your dog.

sounds like a normal dog to me.... They aint gonna catch em all, no matter how good of a dog they are....

I certainly would not put the dog back in the pen.  Could it possibly be the heat?  Even the toughest cant take too much heat.

Specially not with a big hog where she can't get away might just make her worse imo

Try this. Like bigO said, you know that dog, if it's out of the ordinary, start looking her over real good.

ok thanks it could be heat and humidity down here 90s plus but I think I will have blood done she is constintly panting too

thats where my money is.. try huntin herre more at night see if it helps.  not that its much cooler down here at night.

When you figure it out let us know. I got one started doing similar to what you talking about a while back. Sometimes he does what I know he can do and sometimes he will run them a half of mile or so.

If I had blood work done every time one of my dogs acted diffierent I would be more broke than I already am.  It seems to me most dogs might lose a few adjusting to the heat.  Everyone has an off day so why wouldn't a dog.  Just my .02.

Mine wouldnt have any blood left!!!    :D

Cuz they're Yeller Trent  >:D

Nobody catches them all but if I have a dog I've hunted two summers and he has allways tried hard, win or loose, and all of a sudden he goes a littel ways and quits two or three times, something is wrong. If one doen't try hard in the summer he won't be around for me to worry about. Thats why I said you've got to know your dog.

I agree with Bob.  It's bout hunting your dog hard and knowing it right down to the flea babies on it.  Start naming them suckers and you've done pretty good  :D

It helps though, case in point with yourself Bob.  You have a great line of Cur dogs.  You've hunted them for so long and seen about everything you could imagine when it comes to this line, that you automatically know somethings wrong just based off past experiences from hunting with the parents, grand parents, and great grand parents of the dog.  It makes life easier when you come to know what to expect.

They're not all yeller!!!  :P

I will agree that knowing your dogs help...

But by the way I read this post, and I could be wrong, it sounds like this dog hasnt been on many runners...
She finds them and they stay bayed..

Maybe she doesnt have much bottom to her, or shes just not used to having to actually chase the hog once she finds them..  ???

U know that could be it t is there anyway way to get more bottom in a dog or is it. Just natrual she really hasn't had to chase many so that could be the problem its this same damn hog tho 3 times now and I can tell its aggrivating her anything I can work on with her ?

If this the case, stay after him, he'll slip up and she will be a better dog because of it.

If its just a running hog, shoot that hog. Then move on to the next.  :D

To hot to be runnin dogs.  :-\

JRyanS... U sound like jimmy... Can't get him to hunt for nothin between the rodeos and the heat! Lol! ;D

May be thyroid, I  have seen alot of it lately in certain bloodlines of coon hounds.  I dont relly know what happens but they loose some of there desire.  The ones I have seen got back to normal in a few months of meds.  May not be the case with yours but if you have blood work wouldn't hurt to check.  Any one seen this in hog dogs before?  Lots of the Bellar and wipe out walkers have this.

After covering all the bases... there is no sure thing when it comes to hog dogs... sometimes they just learn to protect themselves too well... at the cost of good hogs... but it happens... and then some start out like that and fall off... some don't start off and do... you just never know.  ;D

Yuup! All them Wolf City guys are rubbing off off on me.  ;D