Why do you do it???

I just love the dogs. They fascinate me and I try to study them. I’ll get a topic in my head and become obsessed about. It might be the best way to do a mock hunt, the best way to train a dog, the best way to breed, comparing how differently built dogs can swim, etc... I’ll get something in my head and will spend a ton of time trying to learn everything I can about that thing before moving on to a new thing. And then I just love watching the dogs work. To me it’s an awesome feeling to see the dog figure it out and make a hunt successful, it’s like cheering for your favorite football team. If this was a game, I want my dogs to win. I want them to out smart and out perform the pigs. When my old Dum Dum dog would roll out past 300 I would get excited knowing he was running a good track, I would be anxiously watching the Garmin and seeing where he was going and when I heard him catch or saw that he was treed it would just make my blood start pumping thinking “oh yeah we got one!” I get to him as fast as I can and once I can hear what’s going on I know if it’s a small pig or a big pig, and if it’s a small pig it’s just a good feeling of success. And means my buddies get there to take care of the pig feeling accomplished. If I don’t hear squealing then my adrenaline gets going and my mind starts racing about all the bad that could happen and I get real anxious and I’m beating feet to get there and do my part to help the team out. And on top of all that there’s just a great feeling that comes along with being out in the woods or the swamp, especially on a nice spring day when the weather is perfect.

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