Got to finally start my King dog from T-dog this past week. This is the couple month old pup Thomas surprised me with after we had made the decision to do a breeding last year and then we invited him and deputy dawg down for a hunt.

Went to start him about 2 months ago and he decided to take a leap out of the back of the buggy while clipped and long story short injured a back hock/hip. He’s finally back to a point where laying up has done all it will do for him, and time to get that back end built back up.

Mid last week I heard some hogs in the neighbors while sitting on the porch one night. Figured it’s some sows and shoats we knocked out of the bottom the weekend before. Next morning late i decided to carry sketch and king over there and see. Let sketch go find them and then sent king soon as she bayed. Hogs broke. Sketch left, king stayed found and bayed a shoat solo.

Saturday afternoon in some pretty crazy heat for february he packed with the rest of our young males and we caught 3. Never saw him but at a hog after I turned him loose. He got sure enough hot after 3 and had to be put up.

Then Sunday mid morning. Everything is whooped and king packs up with my spoon dog for what end up being a pretty savvy trail job in its own right, and they ran a little 130 lb sow out of her nest, and around in circles, baying multiple times(we broke it twice. Once on accident and then once on purpose when they bayed against a road) 8 miles later in straight rose hedge country, they put her back in her nest and we got her killed.

Color me impressed King. Hell of a first 3 hunts, and a pretty good example of the difference in a dog that will do it, and one that was bred to do it.

Picture is from Sunday after we finally got the sow. Didn’t get any pictures of the 3 we caught with the males on Saturday

Now we just got to get him 100% healthy and whoop on some tracks.





And just for fun, heres 3 generations of my leopard dogs before our Saturday hunt. That was a proud moment for me there.


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Sounds like fun and some really good dog work. I’ve always thought hunting around all that water off a boat would be neat, and I’m sure it is. But I bet it can be flat miserable too. Sounds like yall managed to find the fun in it.


Idk what is up with Tapatalk. My phone won’t even show the board at all on the app. Really sucks.

That is a great paint job on that cur dog. I swear I am going to have to tone ole Showtime in. He is making some pretty big loops.


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Nice looking pups Cajun. The real dark deep brindle is sure pretty. I told Tim that Sunday, we may have given away the best looking sucker out of the whole pile.


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Yeap, ole Buckshot is showing the signs of an early starter. Starting this week, he will be learning how to ride the bikes and boxes and walk him into some bays, then go from there.

My yard dogs have taught him to "hunt" and now he hits the woods without them when he is let out the kennel. Hopefully, we just have to hone him in on the targeted species.

Thanks, Slim, for entrusting in me with this pup.... I'll do my best to give him every opportunity to excel.

Appreciate you taking a chance on him and giving me the opportunity to test one of these dogs in a much different environment than we use them in. Looking forward to hearing how he comes along.


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One of 2 males out of the last round of pups named Goose. This one I sent to a young guy wanting to get in to some dogs. He come up and hunted with us Sunday. Brought goose along and we got him fired off on one of the hogs we caught after the hunt. He went right to it and had lots of action. He really loops hard and has a mouth on him. Big boy, weighed 53 lbs at the vet the other day. May or June 24’ pup.


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We’re going to stay after them for sure. Everything is sure hustling. No begging dogs to go hunting around here. Only hole we’ve found is so far bob is obviously rougher than everything else and it has cost us at times. May have also been helpful at times, jury is still out on everything though. See where we’re at end of February.


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Them boar hogs are sure slippery this time of year. Young dogs are doing their job it sound like. I always feel like I do all the good just taking one or 2 young dogs. You can really pay attention to them that way and slow things down for them.


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We have been trying to keep the about 10 head of ~2 year olds we’re trying to get made this year busy. Did that this weekend for sure. A few of them have been out every day since Thursday.

These are from our gut check on Sunday afternoon, everything was pretty smoked from the weekend but figured we’d go dump them on some cheap hogs and see how bad they wanted it. Absolutely 0 complaints from us, some of them probably finished the day with close to 40 miles on their feet every one of em dug deep and was rolling once we got in the hogs.
  Caught a couple singles and shoats. Then bayed a nice little spotted boar that is hopefully going to grow in to a big healthy barr for us. Dogs rolled and Misty was one of the last to leave. She trickles across the creek not 60 yards and bays 9+ boars laid with one hot sow. Everything fell in and they had another pretty bay going. Then Bob goes and does Bob things and the dogs were pretty gave out at that point, rightfully so. So we called it and left the rest for another day. Think we tied 3 caught 6 and some shoats. Just hogs, but dogs worked good. 
   Caught 1 other sow early Sunday morning. Then tied into a boar, miles and hours later we had to call the last 2 dogs off of him because they were in some country we don’t have access to and one landowner was not very nice.
 
Had a teenage young man that got a pup from me that’s trying to get in to some dogs along with us all day. He got to see a lot of what his pup is related to work. We also got to use misty and one of his pups brothers(ironically named the same “Goose”) to get him started on a live hog after the hunt as well. Had another buddy and his young son along for morning hunt. Good day in the woods for sure.


Morning hog


Afternoon tied hogs


Some videos of good bays

https://vimeo.com/1050821312

https://vimeo.com/1050821786

And then bob breaking one of those
https://vimeo.com/1050822506


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Slim we didn’t get anything out of Lizzo. She’s been put up because she got cut on the left hind. It was stitched and she was muzzled and STILL got the stitches out. So now it’s just gotta heal. It’s nothing but skin but it would probably not feel real good with brush and briars raking it.


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Good deal, no worries. Hazard of the job. How’d she take you working on her?


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Good hunt men, wrong day to be bayed on the water. yall getting much use out of lizzo?


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Set out to catch a hog in the snow yesterday with Tim and Rhett, and a neighbor and his son. I brought spoon and Misty, Tim had their brother Pilgrim and 2 of his gyps Alley and Tiny and Rhett had Gidget.

First cast they roll out and doesn’t take too long spoon is opening on track and they are trying to locate one. They finally stand something up in a pretty rank pocket of rose hedge below some of Tim’s feed bunks and spend 15-20 minutes playing ring around the rose hedge before whatever it is breaks and runs.

Problem is it broke and run “the wrong way”. It went north. Which is headed straight in to Weimar and I-10 and not very far either. We watched them break clear across the open on the garmin and we can still hear them, whatever it is they sound like they’re on his tail. Closer they get to I-10 everything is telling me to tone them off or something. Finally they turn back south and are headed straight back in to where they started this race.

They bounce around in there a little more and I’m pretty puzzled at this point, so I start walking towards the corner the dogs are in. They break  and are headed right towards me, wide open. I try to get around the corner to see up the fence line they’re gonna cross and I hear something smoke the fence pretty hard, but never saw it. About 5-10 seconds later here come them dogs pouring the coals to whatever it is, absolutely rollin. They cover some country pretty quick and then they go quiet, and everything sprawls out in another pretty bad Mott of rose hedge. Spoon finally come treed again and they fell in on him.

Get that way and they’re in bad spot. After about 5 minutes of me trying to kick a way in from the back, they manage to get eyes on the hog. They start hollering Misty won’t call out to shoot so I run around to them and crawl in there, Clayton is telling me it’s a monster.
  I get in next to Tim and we’re looking 10 foot through a rabbit trail at a really big boar hog laid broadside out on his belly with only Misty between us and him. we’re really not in a good spot. If this hog gets up We have 4 grown men a bulldog, and a 12ish year old boy all laying on our belly in a rose Mott that you cannot stand up in or hardly move for that matter.

On top of that I’m having to holler at Misty trying to get her to clear so we can shoot him. Finally I get her to come to me and grab her and pull her to me and hand her to Rhett behind me. Me and Tim both draw a bead and bust him. Sucker gets up on his front end, makes half a circle and then comes at me and Clayton and I shoot him 2 more times at our feet. Dead hog, and a dang dandy at that. Not to mention for them yearlings to stick him like they did was pretty dang impressive, especially in that country.

Dogs rolled over after that and we spend the next 2 hours picking off shoats and sows. Then something i doubt I’ll ever see again happened. Tim has an old dog named Curtis that was in the box. Didn’t use him on the big hog but he was out to catch the rest of em. We don’t really know how old he is but we called him 12 and he looked it. When we got done we called everything in and they all load themselves In the box, including Curtis. We makes the 2 miles drive back up to the pens to put dogs up. Pull up to Tim’s kennels, me and him both grab a young dog to uncollar and put up. And as Tim goes back to grab another dog to put up, Curtis collapses and falls out of the dog box. He Took his last breath about 15 seconds after that. Best I can figure is the old mans ticker gave out on him and he had a heart attack. Was sad, yet oddly poetic. If the choice was mine I’d make all good dogs live forever, but if you said I had to pick how one goes out. With his boots on like Curtis did, is how I’d want it.

Curtis was never an all star, but he was a good and honest dog. Dude left us with some pretty good memories.
Dog on the cooler is Curtis(old picture)


Mid race yesterday on the big hog. You can see how close to I-10 they were.



Bad picture of hog here. Maybe Tim will send me good ones we took this morning. He was right around 275 or so. Misty and Spoon pictured. Broke off both cutters but he had some sure enough big whetters. He was a pretty old hog in my opinion.








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Good hunting gentleman. Thomas them dogs sure sound like they’re coming along nicely.
King is trying to get healthy, his sister is a looker. I’m going to have to meet this Kohl eventually. Me Tim and Hunter are talking about getting together for a hunt during this weather first part of next week.

I’m going to go pester some hogs south of halletsville after lunch tomorrow if yall want to see something different?


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Nice boar hog. Glad the young dogs are working but I bet Sketch is happier about than anyone, lol.


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Sketch has got to be thrilled no doubt.


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Well that’s mighty neighborly. Good hog


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Misty


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Packed a few of me and Tim’s gyps around and got to cast them twice between riding yearlings yesterday.

1st cast they made em a sure enough 3/4 mile vuelta and come on back. I couldn’t find anything that said there was a hog anywhere around there. The 3 long yearling gyps Misty, Tiny, and Alley out hunted sketch and didn’t piggy back off her and that’s what I want to see from these dogs.
  Tiny and Misty have been starting to strike hogs rounding out last year they finished really strong. Alley does really good sometimes but she’s almost a little too watchy for her own good. That’s why alley is not in the video of me leading dogs through them yearlings. Alley was at the trailer already, cattle and train freaked her out.

2nd cast sent them straight down through some yearlings into the river bottom. They dropped down into the bottom and crossed the river bed and bayed about 750 from the trailer.
 
 I got down there and walked in, I wasn’t surprised when the 25 or so head In there went to rallying. Bayed many groups in this same spot over the years. Then here comes the train. I wanted to let them dogs work them hogs, dog break them a little if you will. I know I’m not there to kill but 1 or 2 so don’t want to blow the group smooth out of there when we can bring a full set of dogs back.

They hold them fairly well long enough for the train to pass, but hogs figure out I’m there and start trickling out the back. I get worked back around and manage to knock the lead boar down as he tries to leave. Sketch, Misty, and Tiny took another down river a few hundred yards then doubled back toward the tracks and were between the tracks and the highway that was enough for me to buzz them out of there, and call it a day.

Video ended up being pretty cool.


First cast
https://vimeo.com/1047816899




Bay

https://vimeo.com/1047719931

Dogs are cow broke but cows are not dog broke

https://vimeo.com/1047817052


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Any young dogs you can talk out of a hog sounds like my kinda of cur dog. Sounds like a nice hunt. You hunting horseback Mr.Anderson?


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https://vimeo.com/1047077217

https://vimeo.com/1047077099

Finally let most our keepers have a go at a live hog. Sure enough they fired off first video is rusty(My Hi-tan pup) and then the darker brindle is Tim’s male. 2nd video the leopard dog is my Doodle bug pup. Not shown is Goose, Tim’s hi tan pup. Only one I think we didn’t expose was my LuLu dog.

2 yella pups are some pups of Rhett’s out of a gyp he has. And the light brindle dog is Tim’s Tiny dog. She’s 2 this year and her and her sister are really starting to make consistent, nice dogs. We used her to help the pups along.

Teaspoon up north of Lake Charles,La has his baying hogs in the pen and sounds like he’s about ready to maybe start messing with him a bit.

Our buddy Hunter just south of us in hallettsville has his Hi Tan male that was the runt, running mock trails and finding and baying the hog solo.

Young guy maverick who’s just getting started with dogs has his male doing anything and everything with him on the ranch, getting plenty of exposure and even has him helping blood trail some deer. He is supposed to be coming to hunt with us next weekend to look at a few older dogs we have that might be able to help get him started, and we will get that pup fired off.

Clay up around Lufkin is about to start using his gyp pup. Says she’s doing real good.

And t dog from what I can gather really likes his gyp and was looking at showing her and the rest of his own pups a hog here soon.

As for the 2023 pups. Spoon is the farthest along. I can take him and my rifle and go kill hogs. Physically he’s got it, waiting on his brain to catch up now and he’s gonna be real good. The sucker can rig a hog pretty savvy.

Misty isn’t too far behind spoon. Get her around some fresh tracks she’s probably gonna go get bayed. She set the woods on fire the last time we used her before shutting down for deer season. She’s been put up all fall unlike spoon.

Tims 2 males are coming on strong. They don’t have quite the time in the woods spoon and Misty do, but they are already contributors and pilgrim is forsure going to be a really nice dog.  Bobs gonna make a dog, but he might be physically limited, right now he just seems slower traveling. I expect by the end of March we will know all we need to about that round of pups.


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I think most people ruin casting for young dogs before they’re ever old/good enough to really make you notice. It’s got to be genetic to a point but I don’t think there’s a “cast gene” I think there are dogs that have hunt and some dogs who would never go farther than the porch  to look for a porkchop if they were starving.

I’ve seen it all too many times from friends and people we hunt with that ask how our dogs cast so good or say theirs won’t. Then I watch them let pups hang around, get impatient with dogs trying to work something and push them off of it, or they just put down and go to driving dogs without giving them a chance to leave. I see all of this now because there was a time when it was me who was that guy. If we weren’t catching hogs we were wasting time. Day I quit worrying about catching the hogs and started concerning myself with making the dogs, I started catching more hogs and.l the dogs got a lot better. I know one thing to be 100% true. Your dogs will never cast if you do not cast them.

We do not let dogs hang out, especially pups and yearlings. you get 1 chance to re cast. If not, you go back in the box. And very seldom will we send a dog that didn’t cast to a hog bayed by dogs that did. Pretty quick you’ll find out if that dog wants to go be a hunting dog, or if he’s just as cool with riding coat tails and In the dog box.

We send our dogs and sit on our butts. If they ain’t running one or bayed. We do not move. Don’t care if sketch comes back and in English tells me there isn’t a hog in 3 counties. If you hang out, you get put up, and we sit still till everything is back or we are bayed. And then we might load up, drive in a 2 minute circle and come cast them back out on the same spot.



https://vimeo.com/1046895753 there’s dogs bred all kinds of ways in there from 10 months to 10 + years old.


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