JUST SHOATS

[The Old Man]

Me and Adam finally made a little hunt yesterday and I guess found wild hog grade school. Caught 4 cowboy boot tall shoats, dogs got in a briar patch of little pigs and was mashing them. I think Adam's dog did line out a mature hog as he left  out while we were getting my 2 out of the little pigs, but we caught 2 more shoats with them on the way to where we had lost comms with Adam's dog. Finally I leashed them and we started riding that way, when we got comms with him again he showed treed at a blacktop county road 1.7 miles from us. We figured he had gotten ran over so we came on out of the woods and loaded the mules and dogs, headed to go get him. On the way Lisa called Adam's phone and let us know a friend had caught and tied the dog, that was good news.
We went and unloaded cast and rode pretty deep in another place, there was no sign so when we got out of there we headed home. When we pulled in at Adam's he said we can bay the potbelly, he has a potbelly cross pig that weighs about 60 lbs. that stays with his cows for days at a time. I had 2 pups at home that had never been on a hog, one of them had only been hunted once at 7 months old and didn't do anything that day until I got to a bayed bear on the ground and he fired up even got too bold and was pulled in and chewed on, when the bear caught him the other dogs piled on and got him loose, he backed up, shook his head and went to working the bear again, but with some respect.
Anyway we turned those two pups loose "now 9 mths and 12 mths old" along with one of Adam's and walked out towards the cows, when the cows went to running off we were able to kind of sort the hog out and a sight race ensued, they bayed him in the edge of a pond 150 yds later and were all about it. Before we got there the old dog pup that tried the bear caught the hog, we were able to catch them off so as not to hurt the hog, took them to the truck and put them in the box. Waited awhile and got the hog to leave the pond turned the pups back out they bayed him again, and caught him before we got to them. I try to never start pups on a hog they can catch and hold but I failed yesterday, hopefully we can by chance bay a good sow or two and let her teach that dog pup some respect to save his life. 

[t-dog]

Sounds like those pups have the drive. She might have made him a little too bold but she turned his love it switch on too sounds like. That’s fun stuff there.


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[The Old Man]

 So long as his first woods bay isn't a good boar I think he will  learn and be fine, the female had already been hunted a good bit on bear and done a good job, She looks to be a survivor, she is very aware even afraid of traffic. In WV she beat us to the highway and when she saw us coming she bolted off the road, I yelled at her and here she came happy to see someone she knew, as she came to me a car came by and she bolted again, I called her and while she was coming that time a truck came by, she bolted again haha.       On the little hog yesterday she bayed hard and tight, if he turned away she'd pinch him, if he made the slightest pass at her she made a big move out of the way and was instantly back to a tight position baying. She is on the small side and quick as a cat. I'll be curious to see the dog pup run a track, always anxious to see their track speed. I expect he'll be fast enough since there is good speed on both sides of his pedigree but it is still a fact that remains to be seen.  One side of his pedigree is very similar to the Spud dog Cajun had a few years ago, the other is Gantte blood.
The weather is not good here today 25 degrees with a sustained 17 mph wind and going to get worse for a few days, maybe down to single digits.

[t-dog]

That’s funny with the gyp bolting every time a car came. She sounds like she might have some brains. The way you describe the male pup liking it so much and putting a lot of mouth on them, I bet he runs to catch so to speak. The weather is supposed to get bad here as well. I’m not looking forward to it at all.


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[Cajun]

Sounds like some good pup work.

[NLAhunter]

Sounds like young dogs wanting to work

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[The Old Man]

Thanks guys, time will tell the whole tale but up front they're off to a good start.

I wish they were all like her about the traffic, there would be less worry about them getting ran over.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Yessir.  Sounds like they gonna make some dogs for u.   Ones for the brains and the other one got the muscle.   They will feed off each other and balance it out. 


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