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  Spook is just black with yellow trim rather than yellow with black trim. He is bred the same as the others but he is older than them.  I get a few colored that way every now and then.

Fine looking cur dogs!

Obviously there’s a difference, what is the Spook dog?


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Good looking cur dogs sounds like yall got the job done

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You know, not everybody gets to do what they love and have a passion for. My dogs and my hunting circle are in my prayers every night. There’s a day coming for everyone when we won’t be able to do it and all we’ll be able to do is sit around and talk about what use to be. Of course our memories will be bad so when we tell about he great how great our old dogs were we won’t necessarily be lying. It’ll just be our feeble minds failing to accurately remember. You were fortunate to be in the company of so many guys that have been very influential. My health presents some pretty big challenges. Yesterday was a really bad day for me. Deputy Dawg called early that day and asked if I wanted to go today with him and another buddy. My two young dogs need hunted so I said yes but before the day was over I was sure wishing I hadn’t said yes. The only reason I didn’t back out is because I knew the help I had was great and I wasn’t far from home if I couldn’t hack it. We caught 5 I think and I walked in to two of them from less than 100 yards.  It makes me laugh to hear you tell about your story telling friend. I have me too. That guy can tell you about the simplest things that were so uneventful to a normal person, but he’ll tell you and just make your guts hurt. I loved hunting with that guy.


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Old man have you ever had your catch dog ride on the saddle. I saw a fella that had a spot built on the back of his saddle where his catch dog rode. His mule wasn’t that big so it wasn’t too hard for the dog to load, especially with a little help.


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Man that was almost a one at a time deal. It sure sounds like it was rough. Glad you got them and it sounds Ike the dogs really did their part.


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                                                           HOOKER IN THE FOREGROUND, MOTHER TO COWBOY AND QUEEN TO BE PICTURED BELOW                                                                                       

                                                           

                                                                                                  MY THIRD AND CURRENT COWBOY
                                                           

                                                                                            QUEEN, LITTERMATE TO COWBOY, POOR PICTURE
                                                           

                                                                                                                SPOOK
                                                           

                                                                                                                 GYPSY
                                                              

  Had a tough day, supposed to have been 5 cows was only 4, rode and looked for them a long time in timbered hills and hollows. Dogs finally hit their track and bayed them but there was one that kept punching through the dogs they'd apply the ivory and get her stopped and the other 3 would catch up to her. Repeat the process numerous times and they got turned toward where they needed to go but we were trapped behind an old fence. Took us awhile to get through and when we did dogs showed to be near the pen we were headed to "a neighbor let us use his pen, he'd succed his cattle in" the problem cow was trying to get in with them while the dogs were flogging her. Got her and waited for the trailer to get there to load her.
 Then went back and sent the dogs back down the hill to find the other 3, they bayed them in there and we started punching them up through the cedars and briars, got them in the open and the fellow that owned them was hazing the right hand side he let them back in the timber. Repeat the process and when we  put them in the open one bolted, dogs on her, she went in the timber across the open and way on over there we caught her. led her out was loading her in the trailer and she died, only the third one I can ever remember dying that we caught to load, lord only knows how many times I've done that. 
  Went back for the other two, they'd made it way off over there, dogs found them drove them back near the open by myself before Adam got there "we'd split up looking for the cows and the dogs had trailed way off before baying them" one cow was staying in front the other decided to stop I told Adam to try to punch her to the front cow, while I tried to haze the front one towards where we needed to go, got them out in the open though separately, and got them caught and loaded without incident. The first cow and the third cow were well earmarked and had bloody noses. The fellow was glad to get them, he'd given 3000 to 3700 for them, he was present for the whole deal on the one that died and wasn't upset "with us" about her dying.
  It just didn't go smoothly but they were pretty rank Brangus cows in over a thousand acres with little or no fences and 90 percent timber, we could hardly ever get up to a trot, it was hard on cows, horses and men.

The man on the mule used to hog hunt, but at 79 he’s gone towards coon and squirrel hunting. He did a have a Stephens/walker cross he says runs hog, coon and will tree squirrel. I’d give that dog a chance if the opportunity came about. Ol’ boy has a lot of knowledge of the local terrain and game.

Cajun, I don’t know what it is about that one spot, it seems the hogs leave there for a while then return. Might have something to do with the burn they just did, but we had just caught a couple boars in there post burn. I’m left scratching my head sometimes

  Going to get some escaped cows today over between Ft. Gibson and Tahlequah. Took some Cur Dog pics while loading up. but they aren't very cooperative subjects and I'm a poor camera man. Will get Lisa to put them on that site so we can upload them and post later.

  Yes, the bulldog keeps up real well, he has made a few 12-14 mile trips since I started using him. One day he got pretty hot and I really believe it was a hormone thing, like a woman having hot flashes, since he is recently neutered. Before nor since he hasn't done that and often mixed in those trips he has caught 1-3 hogs.