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 Sure hate to hear about Ol'Sketch being seriously ill, on the upside if she doesn't make it through she is leaving quite a legacy. Started you a good solid line of dogs that should last you decades.

Thanks guys. She is my best friend, and has been since the day I turned 19. Gonna make the most of whatever time we have left with her. Hopefully we have more than I’m letting myself believe for now.

  6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 more months. Whenever she goes, we’re gonna be short a good hog dog. And a great dog around here. She will leave behind a legitimate legacy of producing working dogs that worked, That will be around a lot longer than her.




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Man, I am sorry to hear that. Hoping for a good result however narrow the chances are.

Dang I hate to hear that for y’all. I know what she means to you. Unfortunately this is a time that we all have to face in life, not just hunting. We have to be thankful for the time we had with them. Those darn Chagas bugs have been around a little longer than I realized. The worst part is that there isn’t a cure or real vaccine the way I understand it. There’s a new experimental vaccine or treatment that’s about $200 a dog I think, but again it isn’t proven yet. I think it’s Bob Glass over around Lexington that is leading the way in the research on Chagas. He does testing and all on dogs.


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Well. Carried sketch to the vet this morning. She’s gotten quite a belly last few weeks but is in heat right now and is on schedule to be.

Started out as a possible false pregnancy/pyometra. Test all come back negative, no parasites.

X ray of abdomen showed the pot belly was being caused by lots of fluid. And xray of thoracic cavity showed the cause. Right sided heart failure. She’s got a significant murmur and the right side of her heart is about 1.5x the size it should be. Be a few days on tests but we sent off for a chagas test and a test to see how much heart damage has occurred already.
Pretty bad day around here. Vets want to wait on test before we start talking about time she might have left, but I know we’ve got a lot of hanging out to do starting this evening.


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Looks like he had a big black mane, I would’ve liked to see him bristled up.

That was a while back. I don’t believe I’ve seen a blue eyes hog either. Probably 30 years ago we caught a blondish/white boar and the only other color were the small black patches over his eyes. He had small, piercing, amber colored eyes. Man that dude looked wicked and he did put up a fight.

NLA and I were talking about color a week or two ago. I’ve noticed here that in some places we will catch just spotted hogs or just black hogs with some of them being that European color or look. Some places we have a big mixture and it seems like the color of the hogs tend to lean towards more of one color or other depending on the color of the dominant boar.


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That is a neat hog tdog. Seen some more silver/gray than that and plenty reds but never one like that.

My question is does color come from more diverse breeding or more inbreeding? We catch mainly straight black hogs, and what I call a red collared hog. Very seldom spot or true red around home. Caught a blue eyed barr years ago around Milano/gause. Heck I think that was the weekend we met in person t dog, cowboy church weigh in.


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That dang Hillbilly. when he made that loop thru Tx. He really left his mark.

Dogs, hogs. He don’t discriminate does he?


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