My buddy Joe Hudson bred the Chief dog to one of his females(Shamrock) and I was lucky enough to get a male. I call him Joey. He has just been running loose and I finally took him and another 6 month old female to a friends 300 acre pen. With some other young dogs they ran about 13-14 miles. Not bad for 5 month old pups.
About a month later I took some older dogs with Joey and Maple(2 6 month pups) back to the pen. We turned loose at 5:30 and they jumped pretty quick. About 10:00 I toned the dogs in because it was getting hot. They had 18-20 miles on them.I had a collar on Joey but forgot to turn it on. I was afraid to tone Maple in because then we couldn't track Joey. A lil over a hour Maple gave out but we could hear Joey going on with it. I went ahead and toned her in and she had 25 miles on her. We spent the next 2 hours trying to catch Joey but he wasnt giving it up.I told my buddy I would just come back in the morning. He spent another 45 minutes trying to catch him and he gave up. He came back that evening with 5 of his dogs to run. They rigged while he was going in and about 2 minutes later here comes Joey trotting down the road to the barking dogs. He scooped him up and turned his out. Well he had to put a shock collar on him to shut him up because Joey wanted to get to those barking dogs. He called me to let me know that he had caught Joey. We both figured that Joey had to of run a minimum of 35 miles. That kinda of impressed me.
