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Dropped my 2 curs, my buddys finished cur and 7 mo old pup, dogs made several 500 yd loops but no bay, on the way back to the truck for a 2nd drop I said its good luck to cut one cd loose so we cut 1 and within a minute dogs bayed at 433yds. My friend said oh crap that pups only caught 1 hog I dont want her to break the bay so he sent his finished dogo in from 300. Easy walking thankfully didnt take us long to get there and finish her off, another 120 lber. Dogs caught out on 2 50 lb shoats after that, it was getting hot so we called it a day. All the curs did good and the 7 mo old bayed well, caught the shoat and made some big loops (biggest .5 mi.) stayed with his finished bmc like glue so good future for her we hope.

Toothy rank boars there nice job

Dang Cajun, that's a high price to pay for a hog. I hope everyone else gets healed up.

These are some hunts in March. Had Andy Becker , Larry Smith, Charles Gainse and his Grandsons and also hunted with Scotty Needham and his father in law Steve. we have gotten on some good boars and have had a lot of dogs cut up. Yesterday with Scotty Needham, Larry Smith and Andy we got on a real nice boar and he bayed right up with about 5 or 6 Plotts on him. Hard to believe because this place is known for running hogs. Caught him(hog on the log) and Scotty had a race going. dumped some Plotts into his race and we ran this hog for hours. Finally got him stopped and caught but it came with a cost. He killed my Primetime dog and one of Scottys. One of Scottys dogs died later that afternoon so this hog cost us 3 good dogs. Between Larry, Scottys and my dogs is like a War zone Veterinarian hospital. March has been hard on us. We have never lost 3 dogs to one hog before. The hog on the log went about 250#, The two last pics, are of the killer hog and he went 275-300#.












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Hate to hear it Slim. The only consolation is you have h ad her quite awhile and she has produced very well for you. Normally the goods one are gone well before their time.

Semmes that’s what I’ve learned so far. The bugs bite but that isn’t how you are infected. The bug has a parasite that enters the body through wounds or mucus membranes, etc when the bug defecates on the person/animal while biting them or by defecating in  their water. They say people can be treated so I’m not sure why a dog couldn’t be. Still have some digging to do. They also say it can remain unnoticed or undetected for years making it hard to narrow down when they were actually infected. I can’t believe that ivermectin wouldn’t have an affect on the parasite and the bug itself.


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Yes, a mammal can contract Chagas disease from kissing bugs (triatomine bugs) by consuming water or food contaminated with the insect's feces, which contain the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. While the most common route is the feces entering a bite wound or mucous membrane, ingestion of infected feces or the bug itself is a recognized, albeit less common, transmission route.


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Nah, they dedicate while they feed on a blood meal and if the poop consequently smeared into the wound the t-cruisi parasite enters the bloodstream. That is the vector by which a mammal contracts chagas.

That’s why they are called kissing bugs. The like ti bite where the skin is thin and vessels are closer to the surface. Around the lips or eyes while the victim sleeps

I’ve not heard of them being so hard on dogs by biting. About everything I’ve heard says that the main way they get infected by the Chagas is by the bug deficating in their water. I was told by what a I consider a reliable source that many of the south Texas cat hunters have gone to the automatic dog licks for their watering system to remedy the defication issue. I’m not saying they can’t be bitten just that the most common infection source is the water defication. Now y’all have me curious. I think I’ll give Mr Glass a call tomorrow.


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  In hindsight I think I lost a Plott female to chagas before I'd ever heard of it. About 3 yrs. ago in the Texas Hill country we bayed a good Boar hog, not a monster but a good hog in an almost impenetrable white brush thicket. My gyp got hit at the back of the ribs barely visible injury but was sored up a few days and went right on. Some time passed and she seemed to gradually lose all stamina, just couldn't hang anymore, was not old either. I laid it off to the injury received from that hog. I had her staked right under a pole light while there, supposedly the light attracts them, and the timeline somewhat fits.
 That pole light was on the edge of a juniper thicket that the Mouflon sheep regularly bedded in to avoid coyotes when they had lambs so there was the draw of the lights and a steady meal available
 The dog that was sick not long ago is sick again after seemingly a full recovery, I haven't seen any of the kissing bugs, here but on the "chagas map" Oklahoma is listed. I don't know if he could have had it all this time "since the Hill Country trip" and just now shown up with symptoms.    With there not being a good cure, and no vaccine I don't plan to have him tested.