What to do with Clay?

I agree with several of the other comments. I lost my lead dog to a fight with my bulldog a while back. At the end of the day the responsibility was on me because I allowed certain things to happen that shouldn’t have, but I shot the bulldog after that. I had nothing else striking pigs at that time and had young started dogs that really struggled. I tried for months to get doings going again and really just wasn’t having much luck. A buddy of mine that lives a few hours away called me up out of the blue and asked if I was interested in a finished dog.

Of course I asked about the dog wanting to know which one it was, but told him I probably couldn’t afford the dog. He tells me it’s his copper dog, she was around 6 years old and has been wrecked by some big boars over the years and started to slow down. He had swore for several years that he would never get rid of her, and she had built a good reputation around his part of the state for being a true jam up dog, but he had 30-35 dogs on his yard and had some younger dogs coming on good and she just couldn’t keep up with them anymore. He said she was too good to sit on a chain and he wanted her with someone he knew would take good care of her and keep her in the woods. He didn’t care about money and was more interested in working out a trade. I had a project 88 K5 that that I hadn’t touched in a few years and so we traded for that. He really didn’t need or want the truck, but he knew I didn’t have the money to pay what she would be worth and he was really just trying to help me out. Turns out she was a perfect fit for my yard and is great for starting young dogs. It worked out great for both of us and he’s happy knowing that one of his best dogs is getting well taken care of and still hunting.

We just wrapped up a big annual hunt that we do March 4,5, and 6. And he was glad I brought her out to hunt with him again. I think it’s important to place the dog with the right person. This guy wouldn’t have put that dog with someone that he didn’t know or trust. Like me, he runs rough dogs that are pretty much straight catch. So he needed to know she would be with someone that hunts dogs like that and will do everything possible to get to her as fast as possible when she stops one.

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