Message #141547

[Bryant]

A couple years ago I was hunting one morning with Tim Nichol.  We had already caught a couple hogs and the dogs had rolled back out.  Directly we hear a dog open, then another and shortly a good bay.  I was using Ruby for catch that day and I sent her in from about 75 yards out.  A few minutes later she comes running back out and is standing beside me wagging her tail.  I thought that was VERY strange so we started walking in (as the dogs are still barking).  When we got there, they were bayed on a dead hog.  It was very cold that morning, but the hog was still a little warm, yet cold enough that it had begun to stiffen.  No obvious signs of trauma.  It was strange enough that it was dead, but even more strange was the fact that older dogs were baying it!