These from Sunday. Got done covering yearlings for Tim at the Cattle co. Hit the house and loaded spoon Theresa Lulu and Bug. Casted at 12:03 off By 1:03 I was back at the truck loading my buggy back up and we had 8 good hogs dead.

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All is well so far 10 days in. Pups look great and Misty is doing a fine job at momming for her second go. 1 female 4 males. Not sure how I’m dealing this litter out yet.

Far as the rest of the hounds they are running and gunning. I’ve got 6 head of 2 and 3 year olds that I’d show anyone anywhere and tim has 3 to match and we’ve got some short yearlings getting ready to start.
Long time coming to get back to a real string of using dog. Hopefully that string keeps growing and progressing the back half of this year in to next.


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Says these bugs live in woods by woodpiles and coons possums and armadillo are vectors. Heck I live way back in woods and got a firewood stand right by the dog run I stomped the buy yesterday.

This place seem to be overrun lol

Yessir. Had to clean up around my dogs because of that as they’re all under a century old oak Mott.

Hopefully this gyp don’t have it.

Now I get to worry about screw worm and these puppies. The flies are officially north of the I-10 corridor in Gillespie county. Always something.


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I think the one under her head is a true black with a little white trim. One of them is going to color out like rusty I think, That liver hi tan color. Other is hard to tell. He’s got some brindle or something going on. He’s not a true black. Usually takes a week or so for them to finish changing colors.


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Walked out the house at 5 am to load a few dogs. Misty didn’t come greet me so I knew what that meant. DOMINO! 5 seemingly healthy leopard pups.
I’ve been gone all day but she seemed emptied out with the 5. If we can wean them all it’s just enough to take care of me and a few close buds till we can get another cross made.
I’m stoked, somebody fast forward a year.


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Are you saying there isn’t a guarantee raising good dogs? Lol, you are exactly right though. I don’t gamble because I figure I wouldn’t be very good at it. The breedings I would’ve bet some pretty big money on were the biggest failures in my mind. The Oldman and I just had a conversation about this. So many variables.


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The only guarantee I’ve found in my short time, is for better or worse, it never goes exactly as you draw it up. And it’s why I think there’s a lot of pride to be had in consistently producing good dogs. It’s hard.


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I get it. If the king/Misty pups work you can go back to your buddies dog, Spoon, or even the Ray/sketch pups. You’ll be fine if it works.


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I told Nathan. If breeding dogs was simple math and 2+2 always equaled 4. I love the cross on paper.


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I can’t see his face but I’m betting he had a smile on it! I sure hope they turn out for you. That would give you several options if they do.


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Yessir. The plan has always been to breed a outcross gyp back to my side to one of the early males. it just hasn’t timed out to work yet. Got to keep usable numbers around for time being.


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Misty is showing all the signs of being heavy bred. We should be right at the 2 weeks till mark.


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Your buddies gyp died and his pup had to be carried out. That sounds odd to me. Why did the pup have to be carried out?

I will get with you about Lizzo.

Those wild lemon thickets are as bad as I’ve been in. The thorns are brutal but even worse they are from the ground up and the trees can and do grow so close together. I’ve gone in dressed and came out nearly naked. They’re bad enough to make you ask if there are any on a place before you hunt it. It’s the same kind of fear you have when you start out of your front door. You gotta open it slow and look first to make sure the band of wild women aren’t out there waiting. Trying to navigate through them while they are grabbing and stripping at your clothes is nearly impossible.


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Rhett would have to tell the specifics of how long he’d had them dogs out, or if he sent them to the dogs bayed when this all happened.

But mid morning we had done caught a few and I think had the 3rd sounder bayed for the morning, and it sounds like a big one. The one hog we seen come off of it was a jumbo, and the young boys we sent after the hogs come back talking like it was a war zone lol.
They bayed this group walking for 20-30 minutes and as them boys tried to get In there they broke it. Hogs and dogs headed for the highway. They bayed halfway there. Young boys get in there and it breaks and everything heads for highway. Except Rhett’s young gyp. Blaze said they just found her with her leg hung in a tree, out of it. They had to carry her most the way back then she kind of came back to. Me and Tim while this is happening are hauling butt out of this place to get to the highway/his house where the rest of the dogs are at.
Get everything caught and gidget isnt back. Look down and she’s about 150 yards off the high way in the brush right in the tracks all the other dogs made to the highway. I walk in to find her look like she went down mid stride. No sign of being hit. No road rash or broke bones. Gums showed good color. No vomit or foam or bleeding. Just a dead dog. These dogs were out of shape, but I’ve seen heat stroke and it’s never looked like this.

Just odd it was both Rhett’s dogs. Him and Tim made a comment like he has some neighbor where he keeps his dogs, pissed off cause his dogs bark, but that dude used to own and keep the barkingest yeller dogs I’ve ever heard. I don’t think there’s anything to that based on what we saw. I reckon if Rhett was set on knowing he’d have hauled her to our vet for a necropsy. Gidget may have had heart worms or something, and I think the pup just got hot/hit by a hog and just sulled up a little bit. She’s pretty green.


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Ole Lizzo is a really nice dog. I’d feed her for sure. She’s the first dog bred like that that I’ve ever hunted with. If she’s the norm for them then it doesn’t make sense why more of us aren’t hunting them. She could probably be harder, but everything else about her is spot on. My biggest surprise was how controlled she went into the brush. She didn’t just blow in straight through the thick. She tried to take trails which means less noise and more energy used getting to the hog. She also hammed a good boar it in the open pasture and the second he squatted she move to the ear. She’s a thinker on her feet and I can’t express how important I believe that is in a good catch dog. You better get her bred before you can’t. She’s got a hazardous occupation and you know what I know, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed for any of us….hog dogs included. I just so happen to know where there’s a very like minded male with lots of leg, lol.


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Well if you can use her you need to come get her. Breed her. I’m going to sit on my hands unintentionally because I like these cur dogs. and I hopefully have a litter due inside of a month. Misty and king.

Now not to sound partial, but I’d concur with tdog, she is an awesome dog. As long as you understand what she is and use her accordingly, you can catch lots of, and some good hogs with her. And she’s a heck of a number 2, to back up a good bulldog.
  Appreciate you speaking well of her Thomas, I’m serious, she’s in her prime and she needs using. We can figure out something that works, just holler if you think so.

Went last weekend and caught a pile at pork chop hill. Sadly Rhett lost his best gyp to what I can best tell was a heart attack or seizure. I found her, not half an hour after a pup of his had to be carried out. She’s seemingly okay now.

That’s the only picture I got Saturday. Them buddies of ours with us didn’t know what a wild lemon thicket was. So I went and got a picture to show them. Tdog knows about that thicket. No hogs in there today.


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Had some hogs coming into a feeder at some of my step family’s country just north of flatonia. This is a place I’ve use lizzo a lot but this was a different feeder and it’s been a while. 
  Hogs showed about 10. I went and got lizzo. Spotted them with my thermal about 400 yards out to make sure they were still there. I put lizzo down, we ease in the first 300 and then I turn on my head lamp and it’s full go. Hogs don’t break til they’re in my lights. We miss the big boar but cut the number 2 out. After a little back and forth I spin him the 2nd time and lizzo gets caught.

Tied him, took her back to the truck. Went back to the hog and lightened his back end up and sent him on his merry way.

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Went back to the Baseball players place today. Just me. Tim’s day didn’t work out, mine did. Hunting some hogs in a 150 acre netwire pasture on some freshly flatbroke and planted ground.
Take King, Spoon, Tracker, and Lizzo. Supposed to be 2 sows and a handful of shoats. He shot one good sow the following night after we were there last time. He also said he saw a boar hog. That matters in a minute.

Today I went to cast dogs from same spot as first time. South end of the little spring creek that’s the only real brush in there. Maybe 30 acres total of it.  South wind blowing they all immediately went to trying to get across fence same as dogs did last time where we ended up. I cussed them and sent them north. They crossed the road that cuts the drainage in half and kept going.

150 yards or so across they come out run a loop around the far end and tuck back in. Struck. I get to truck and drive that way. Catch the other sow and about 6 shoats cutting across open. Lizzo never sees them but I cast her to the lake they were headed to and go to the dogs bayed. They’re in a big pool in the creek under a long jam. Bust her, dogs roll. I come out of the creek lizzo had a shoat caught back across by the lake in the middle. I hoof it over there, kill it. Get back to truck and cur dogs got hogs on the fence on south end. Go catch that shoat. Tie it in hopes to start some bulldog yearlings.

Dogs hang around some, land owner calls. I’m talking with him telling him yeah I’m in them. I’m the middle of that 5 minute conversation I watch spoon shove his nose in the dirt and go to trailing going north away from me along the fence. I hang up and look down and I’m standing on a big track. It’s days old after the rains but I take a video of the track and laugh that I hadn’t seen that hog leaving that track yet and lizzo was with my cur dogs. I walk around to truck, grab Garmin and they are all treed on the very north end in the creek.

Get around there and as I get all in to them I hit a 20 ft bank over a wash out. They’re in a log jam underneath me caught. I go to them with rifle and a tie rope. It’s pretty tame as I’m getting down to them and I don’t realize hog is as big as he is. I get flat footed in the washout with them and he’s coming to me with dogs all over him. I managed to knock a hip out with my rifle as he went to the back of the washout. He turned 180 and took a few steps back with dogs caught on him again and I dropped in and caught a leg.  I was in a pretty good bind at the point so with some doing I got him worked towards my rifle enough to grab it with him still legged and send one through his shoulders with dogs caught. Dead hog.

250-260 with 3” on both sides. Somehow spoon ended up with a busted lip and that was it. Lizzo wears a WildBoar USA Aussie style plate. It was in pretty good shape this morning. She needs a new one now. He was almost all the way through it in about 4 spots. Got pretty dang lucky, but big shout out to wild boar. Their stuff is awesome and dirty tough.

Landowner comes and meets me, we get the hog out and shoot the breeze for an hour about hunting and dogs and Ranching and call it a day after. Went to the rodeo tonight to watch him and my buddies dad team rope.









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Pups
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All the pictures and dogs I ever saw were all big framed dogs but athletes. 60-75 lb dogs. The tracker dog in my opinion from what I heard and the little I saw of those dogs, tracker is the closest thing to that I know of these days as far as look and way.
This was the Bridgette dog. Mind you the belonged to my old boss and at one time uncle by marriage. His uncle was named Tim Exner. Tim Johnny and Jamie were all big buddies.


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And Jamie talked about the dummy dog multiple times. We’ve talked about this some on here before. It’s not on this thread, it’s on the one about the very first litter I ever had which was victors litter. Idk how to find it.


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Levi’s mom was summer. Summers mom was Bridgette. Bridgette was a legendary dog by 3 peoples account. Bridgette went back to one of those 3 stooge dogs or a direct offspring.


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There’s the 4 pups we kept out of that first cross. Victor is dark brindle pup.


This was their daddy Levi. He was a Leo Tx Leopard dog.


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The Tracker dogs daddy was Sketch to one of the Woodard’s dogs?


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Trackers dad was that cross. Trackers dad was victor. Victors dad was Levi. Levi was a 14 year old cow dog out of that family of dogs.


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Trip south on Saturday was a mess but a few hours and thousand acres later Nate’s Tracker dog rigged a boar. Ended up with 7 or 8 cur dogs coming back together on him and while we were watching the bay the curs caught him. Tracker ended up coming home with me. He’s a 6 year old out of sketch. This weekend was first time I’ve gotten to see him go due to injuries every other time I’ve been down. But Nate knows a dog and says he is one. Hes a pretty bad dude off the rig, Or on a track as that is how they hunt down there. We were between Kenedy and goliad and wow it was dry, even compared to what we have been at home. Thankfully just got 5 inches here in Swiss alp this weekend.

Our dogs hunted okay but could never get a track going. About 1 am I knew it was going to take tracker getting a good rig, and sure enough he did. Brought tracker home to try to cover misty but I believe we missed her. I put king over her early last week and I reckon she may have taken. This opportunity arose and we figured we’d see if we could split the litter but I don’t believe they tied.

If Misty took to king I will be plenty excited and we can try tracker again. King x Misty is a good cross by my math on paper so we shall see.


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