EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I have been bored to death waiting on deer season to get over with so thought I would post some of these bulldog pics. Ketch, 85# father of Lucy and Bonny, my present catch dog.chocolate dog is Hooch, 90#.Rambo off of Ketch, 78#, red dog is Red, 70#, best catch dog I have had.Brindle w/white is Tank, 70#.hammer, 85# my kids favorite, brindle. Billy, 65# black brindle. All hard hitting ear dogs except for Hammer, he was a nose dog.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/b0de6f762183d3c383f3144c888a6f93.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/6f0ed6bd67e738d431efb0353e508dad.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/d8eea25f45eadc6da91705a3285063c6.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/65c74c6dfcded0523eda989d8f948029.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/643f40b4402b04dbeb9dbf870e99556b.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/ad77ac42a77385ad7f40dcca53d4061e.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/33b354e3d5523b05dbc0156453ec22b0.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/31fcb726035e422defbf8448576b3ae5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181205/bab192e91ea2a3ccf97a0e575e4a9703.jpg)

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That’s some good lookin’ bulldogs... it won’t be long till everyone is turning some dogs loose.

Good looking bulldogs

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Thanks Guys, something I have often thought about, all these dogs were typical catchdogs as far as charging in full bore to catch the hog. If they made contact, it was normally a caught hog. No dog catches them all but the good ones do have a high percentage. I think sometimes, especiially if you only have one or two loose baying dogs that sometimes a hard charging dog makes a hog break before he gets there(he hears the dog coming) A friend of mine had a bulldog about 10 years or so ago & when he would turn him loose, the dog would kind of just trot on in there & when he got about 10" from the hog, then slammed him. I never saw this dog miss if he made contact. I guess he went in in stealth mode. lol  Anybody else see bulldogs take their time going into a bay.

Nice looking bulldogs.


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Cajun, the mother of my Gus dog was that way. The older she got the more she just picked her way in without crashing any brush. She rarely missed and never got cut after she turned 2.

Good looking catch dogs...

Yes sir I had a black dog just like that pick his way go around but accurate as I have ever saw. He got killed on a big Barr. The next few weeks of hunting after that we could catch a hog on first bay for crap!! I told the boys our catch dog is gone.


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Cajun a large percentage of our family of dogs are that way. I literally watched my Vegas dog circle a mess of briars that we had a boat bayed kn. They were about 3 feet high and 10 or 12 feet in diameter. He evidently just climbed I. There for over protection because there wasn't a trail in or out. After making a circle all the way around and not finding a trail, he stepped back and jumped over and came down with a mouth full of ear. It's hard to beat and my preference on style.

I've owned one out of all the catch dogs I've had that I'd just about bet everything I had that he was going to catch the first time every time, he was slow going to a bay and would get so low to the ground just be fore he caught that it looked like he was almost army crawling, he also the only catch dog I've ever had that lived out his entire life and I eventually had to put him down for his own quality of life sake at 11 years old,

I caught a lot more bigger hogs with him by himself than with a higher dog I've owned, my best friend and hunting partner currently has one that is the only thing I've personally seen or used that was as good if not better than my old Max dog, if can lay his eyes on him you just as well consider it a caught hog, the only time I've ever seen either dog miss is when they were sent with another dog, this is the main reason I like using one bulldog to this day, I've seen way to many bays broke bc of multiple catch dogs trying to race each other in there that they make all kinda racket or flat out miss...

I actually bought Max from a guy I met on here when this thing was brand new, he was 3 when I bought him and I didn't have a hand in making him the dog he was other than taking care of him and giving him a ride to the woods, and I only ever got one litter off him and raised a male that was as good quality of a catch dog as his sire was but didn't have enough bite on him to pop the juice out of a grape, as soon as I saw what kinda catch dog Billy's dog Red was I stuck him to an old game gyp I still got and currently have 4 pups out of him...

Very nice Bulldogs Cajun. Is it standard to have these dogs on really thick gauged chains ??

Cheers
Dom

Thanks again for the compliments. Aussie Dogger For me it is the very best and safest way to keep a bulldog. Not all of mine have been on chains quite as heavy as what is on that brindle bulldog tho. He would work a chain and stayed super fit. All my male dogs (Plotts stay on a chain) my females stay in a kennel. Years ago I had a big brindle male pit that chewed threw two heavy duty chain link panels to get to a female Lab of mine in heat. After that, all bulldogs go on a chain. A lot of my dogs are on runners about 60 yards long & some are on 12-15' ft. chains. The dogs on chains tend to exorcise themselves way more then my females who stay in 4 x 10" kennels.

Makes plenty of sense Cajun, do you have any problems with chain knotting up ??
Thanks for your reply.

Cheers
Dom

No. On some of my chains in the past I had a heavy swivel attached to a heavy bullsnap and have never had a problem with the chains knotting up. I keep most of them under trees and once in a while a limb will fall & get caught up in a chain & it will get tangled. I have a Plott gyp about 10 months old & I swear she collects every stick that falls in reach and all the limbs and sticks end up in a pile where the stake is. lol

at the hardware store you can buy 1 heavy duty swivel with 2 heavy duty quick links and you can attach that to the collar and chain...and you can use the same setup at the other end of the chain and it will not ball up or twist on you...

Thats cool Cajun, sounds like you have it sorted and it works for you.


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at the hardware store you can buy 1 heavy duty swivel with 2 heavy duty quick links and you can attach that to the collar and chain...and you can use the same setup at the other end of the chain and it will not ball up or twist on you...
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G'day Reuben,
A lot of fellas down here do have there dogs on chains, they just don't run them as heavy duty as in the States. Depending where your geographical location is some of us prefer to have dogs off the ground, this is to reduce attacks from pests ( fleas, ticks etc ) and from deadly snake bites.

Thanks for your reply's fellas.

Cheers
Dom

Dom, I have seen a lot of hog hunters over there that wear shorts. Are the woods that open?  I would love to hunt in that kind of terrain. Our brush all has thorns or stickers on them. Ya'll really have a lot of deadly snakes over there. Do the dogs recover or usually die & I know it depends on the snake. Over here we get our dogs bit a lot by Cottonmouths & Copperheads(both pit vipers) but they usually survive. Not many will survive a rattlesnake bite tho.

Sorry for the late reply Cajun,
Look some of where people might hunt maybe open scrub but there are areas out west and far north Queensland and the Gulf were people and myself have hunted with just shorts on, No shoes and no shirt and that's mainly because of the extremely hot and humid temperature that's out there in the warmer months.
 We do have Blackberries which is probably 10 times worse than a rose bush only a patch could be as large as a massive car park, which is generally found to the south. We have stinging nettle which can affect dogs and people in a bad way. To the north we have Stinging needle which sends you crazy in pain and there's wait a while that grabs hold of you and don't let go because of the hooks it has sunk into your flesh. That's just to mention a few undesirables. Most of our snake bites to dogs would be from red belly black snake and our brown snake which is the most aggressive of the two. The brown is likely to chase you. Most of the bites will need anti-venom for dog survival.

Cheers
Dom       

I spent an arm and a leg building chains at tractor supply this week, I should of known better and go to this little mom and pop store the chain was a dollar less a foot and even their swivels and quick connects were considerably lower. After loosing one bulldog to the chain getting knotted up all of mine now have atleast one swivel and if the dog is bigger heavy duty quick connects or false links they will strip the threads off the ones that my smaller dogs are on.   all of them are attached to an axle in the ground. It’s almost a weekly chore raking up the limbs in their area. It’s pretty thick in our area too does anyone have any problems sending Boggers cds?

Never really had a problem with chains. But when I was young I already knew the right way to do it. I ain’t had good luck with bigger cd.


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There are good and bad ones in every size and pros and cons to every size. My preference is the bigger catch dogs. I like the leggy linebacker type. I just heard a story a couple days ago about a big boar that that had a bulldog on each ear and he ran off with them holding on. They didn't get the hog. I have also had too many dogs cut after the catch because the smaller catch dog just couldn't get the leverage needed. If you run real rough dogs it doesn't seem to matter as much because everything is getting ahold. Like with my Raylynn gyp though, she will bite to stop a hog, but as soon as the hog is caught and she can see you, she's no longer a help to the catch dog because she is gone to the next hog. Hunting solo is another time that the bigger type are more beneficial to me. Naturally you can't handle as many dogs by yourself so the catch dog better be able to anchor by itself because it is gonna have less help. Just my opinion of course.

We like the big dogs because out in the marsh, they not only anchor the hog, there is not much to tie a dog up to. It really does not matter tho because whatever size dog catches  the hog, The Plotts have him covered. In fact, depending on how many we have out, most of the time we are going to a caught hog. A smaller dog might be a hair faster but say in a hundred yard race if the smaller dog beats the bigger dog by 10 yards, dont really know if that makes a difference. I used to have a 45# pit and she caught everything but you did have to be carefull because a hog could walk and still charge you with her attached. She ended up getting killed by a big boar because he was slinging her everywhere and she just took to much of a beating. Anyway, no matter the size, the bite is what is important. If bulldogs are being shook off, they clearly do not have the bite.

I hunted with two fellas that are on this site one time guy said is your bulldog good I said yes sir. They turned out 13 dogs then we bayed and they said turn your catch out lol. Pretty funny the stuff you see nothing against them fellas just not how I do it


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LMAO Judge! I had something real similar happen to me and a buddy. It was nearly 30 years ago. A fella invited us to hunt that we had just met. He was our fathers age so we figure he had enough sense to know come here from sick'em.  We all get the this river bottom (crop land) and he has a bumper pull horse trailer. We asked if we should go ahead and drop or 2 young dogs. He said sure so we unsnap them. About that time he flings his trailer gate open and there stood two small mules saddled and out ran 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 22, 23,24 dogs! No kidding. Not a bulldog of any size, big medium or small in the pack. If there is a color of dog or coat pattern he had it in his pack. I wanted to leave right then but I had to stay to see just how that was gonna work. We didn't get on a hog one that day. It was the most eventful dry run I've ever been on. When I asked about a catch dog he said if all those dogs didn't  catch it, he figured he better just shoot it.  So to each their own I guess. Man you brought a memory from way back up to the surface there.

My preference is to just put two dogs out but sometimes when we are hunting with buddies we might end up with 6 or 7 on the ground. Very rarely do we need a bulldog with that many dogs on the ground & it can turn into a trainwreck on the wrong boar but most of the time, when you have 4-6 dogs, they can manhandle most hogs.

Well I just picked up a 3/4 pit 1/4 bulldog pup and if he ever gets to be as big as his dad he’s gonna be a real looker.