Wanheda’s Last Hunt

[Austesus]

Went for an evening hunt yesterday with a buddy. Started the hunt off with my buggy not wanting to stay running so we had to load everything up in my buddy’s buggy. 3 minutes in to the hunt we saw some pigs off the side of a road so we cut the dogs loose. They ended up catching a nice little sow in a creek about 15 minutes later. Loaded up and pushed to another place in the property and the dogs caught another little sow in a creek. The second one was killed by my buddies youngest son, his first hog.

After that we decided to make one more round and see if we could get a 3rd hog before calling it a night. My Doc dog went out and struck around 500yds, sat down bayed at 830yds. By the time we got the other dogs had honored him and were there. When we were walking in a smelled boar hog so I figured it was a good one. Well, it was a toothy fella. My buddies oldest son got him killed (his first teeth!) and after we got some pictures of the boys with the pig we were ready to go and I realized that my Wanheda dog wasn’t there. I had a bad feeling about it. She was laying 60yds away cut down. Her eyes were still alert but I pretty well knew she wouldn’t make it. I got her back to the house and me and the wife brought her inside and cleaned her up and wrapped her in some warm towels but she ended up passing about 30 minutes after getting home. I think she knew she wasn’t gonna make it and was trying to hold on until she was comfortable. I asked the wife to watch her while I went outside to feed the dogs and take a look at a cut on Doc and by the time I got back inside she was gone. I’m glad we got the hog, but really hate to lose this gyp. In September she would have turned 2. Her litter barely lived to begin with, and she was doing well, on track to make a nice little dog. Ironically she was born on the floor in that room, on the same whelping blanket that she passed on. I’ll miss her quirky personality around the house, but that is the nature of the beast sometimes.








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[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Sorry for ur loss man.  Them kind usually make a feller pay most of the time.   Congrats to the youngun on his first though. 


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[ca. hogman]

Sorry to hear about your dog.

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[WayOutWest]

Man, sorry to hear that!

[Judge peel]

Nice hog. Sorry to hear bout your dog it sucks I lost two this yr myself


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[Reuben]

So sorry about the loss of you female…

[Cajun]

  sure hate to hear about your loss. sounds like she was making a good one. Congrats to the young felllers on their first and that is a fine boar hog.

[Austesus]

Thanks fellas. It was a good hunt for the boys and I enjoyed, just ended on a bitter sweet note with getting a nice boar but losing a nice young gyp. By no means was she a superstar but she had been hunting well and progressing pretty good, and she sure had a lot of drive to hunt. I was hoping to breed to her next year if she kept it up. But oh well, that’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes. That is part of the reason I’m slowly trying to transition the yard to looser baying dogs. She’s been on probably 20 hogs and this was the only toothy rank one she’s seen. I was hoping she would learn to back up and bay a little more but based off of the cuts I believe she tried to catch out and he cut her down, then probably broke before the dogs shut him down 60yds away. I don’t think she would have went 60yds away from where he was after getting cut, then fell over. Just based off of the dogs that she’s bred down from, most of them that were killed young were killed on the hog because they wouldn’t quit it or back off and bay. She had quite a few cuts but took two hits right below the cut collar and I think those are the ones that got her.


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[t-dog]

Man I hate you lost her. You definitely did your part in getting her raised. I’m glad ole Doc had a chance to show you a hog. As said, those type hogs usually deal some misery.


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[l.h.cracker]

I don't really understand this.If you liked that dog enough to write about her why didn't you carry her to the vet.That dog needed volume... IV's and possibly a blood transfusion not a warm blanket!!! If you had enough time to carry her home and go feed dogs than you definitely had enough time to get her to the vet.Maybe I missed something but that's what I read.

[Austesus]

T-Dog, Doc has been hunting well lately!

Cracker, I don’t think a vet could have saved her. I thought she was dead when I found her. She couldn’t move at all, and could just barely track movement with her eyes. The nearest emergency vet would have been an hour past my house and I didn’t think she was even going to live for the ride back home. If I would’ve had my gun with me I probably would have put her down in the woods. By the time I made the 20 minute ride home and got the other two dogs unloaded her legs were already feeling cold to the touch and her skin had the real dry feeling that they get after they die. I ended up not putting her down wanting to see if there was some miracle she would pull through but as I figured, she didn’t. By the time we got her out of the woods, it was less than an hour that she lived.

The emergency vet is CVETS which is horrible emergency vet that does not like hunting dogs. From prior experiences with them I can guarantee that they would have charged me a minimum $2,000-$3,000 and that’s not including a multiple day stay. Realistically it probably would have been over $4,000. I’m not paying a bill like that for a young dog that doesn’t have much of a chance on surviving to start with. Based off of the timing, she wouldn’t have survived the ride there to start with.


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[l.h.cracker]

Don't talk to me like some dumbass kid.You forget I hunt in your area and have good friends who hunt your area and have been for many generations and if she was alive she had a chance of making it.I have brought many a dog back from deaths door and know one thing if you don't carry them to the vet they damn sure won't make it.If your not willing to foot the bill of an emergency vet than you need to be rabbit huntin or something not hog huntin especially with rough dogs I've owned rough dogs and big vet bills are part of the price.My Peewee dog was as close to death as one can get a few months back and he's baying hogs every weekend because I carried him to the most expensive emergency vet when I was out of town I've never been to they definitely didn't like hog hunters but that was the only option and I didn't even hesitate hell it wasn't even an option to not go.That bs of "it would been to expensive to put that much into a young dog" is exactly the dumbass mentality that gives hog hunters a bad name if you put them in the woods than it's your responsibility to do everything in your power to keep them alive period!!!!

[Austesus]

Talk to you like a dumbass kid? You’re the one that came on my post talking like an hole in the butt. I gave you the benefit of the doubt because things can get misconstrued through text, so I replied with an explanation. To which you responded being even more of an ass. I’ve seen many dogs saved and I’ve seen many that didn’t make it. I think I have a pretty fair assessment on a dogs health.

I’m not sure how where I’m hunting is relevant to you, but I hunt all over the state of South Carolina. I really don’t care where you or your friends hunt. You can do whatever you want with your dogs. You feed them, you make the decisions on them. If I thought the dog was going to make it I would have gotten her to a vet. I’m not going to banter back and forth on the condition of the dog that you weren’t there to look at. Not like your opinion really matters any more than someone else’s does, considering you’re not a vet. While you may be fine with throwing away money, I’m not going to foot a bill that big for a dog that won’t survive. Not to mention the last time I took a hog dog to that vet they tried to accuse me of injuring the dog intentionally, and I’m not going to get in to a pissing match with a vet that wants to call animal control on people that have hunting dogs.

I’ve spent well over $10,000 in vet bills since I’ve had dogs, so don’t try to lecture me about taking a dog to the vet. You don’t know me or know anything about the quality of care I provide to my dogs so don’t talk down to me like you’re above me or anyone else on this forum. I’ve never been anything but nice and respectful to everyone on here, so if you want to be a dick you can feel free to hop off of my posts.


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