catchdog stories

[chestonmcdowell]

Lets hear some stories about your catchdogs.

[justincorbell]

I once lost a catchdog for 12hrs short of a full week in the heat of the summer in full cutgear and found him alive and well (with help from some damn good people) literally an hour ago.....all he was missing was about 10-15lbs and my cut collar lol


"the sun is shining somewhere in texas" -Jason Boland

[Eric]

One of the first guys I hunted with was notorious for running in right behind the bulldogs when we'd turn loose. The dogs bayed up in a clump of oak trees with undrerbrush. I turned my bulldogs loose on the edge and he's going in behind her. Its a pretty good boar. He sees the dog coming and chunks her to the side like nothing. My buddy puts on the breaks... as do we and we're hooking it coming out with boar hog on our tail. My buddy trips on a root ....... rolls over and puts his feet out to fight the hog off. Right as the hog hits his feet the bulldog slams the hog again. We leg it... kill the hog... and start the oh sh** did you see that.

The dog had looped around and was coming back for more. He had some of those Wolverine lace up boots the and the hog had sliced his shoe laces from top to bottom. 

He would always pet that dog from then on when he'd see her. She was my first... and best all around catch dog. Thats hog blood in the pic.

[RyanTBH]

I once lost a catchdog for 12hrs short of a full week in the heat of the summer in full cutgear and found him alive and well (with help from some damn good people) literally an hour ago.....all he was missing was about 10-15lbs and my cut collar lol


"the sun is shining somewhere in texas" -Jason Boland

I let Baus go without a collar once... I think it was on his 3rd hunt. We were out hunting a new spot, and my Fred dog found and bayed a pretty big boar hog and we sent the Parker APBT pup that Blake used to have in, and I sent Baus in (without a collar)... That boar hog turned and head butted Parker, and then turned and head butted Baus, a direct hit... Parker sat there dased and confused and looked like he almost got knocked out... That boar took off, and all the dogs were on his tail, Baus included. When we saw Fred tree'd almost a mile out, I didn't know what to do... There were pups on the ground, and all I could hope for is that Baus was with them, as that was his first chase. We were almos to Fred, and could hear him hammering down... then as we were walking by a fence and a drop off to a pretty wide river (South Sulphur) the pups come out from under the fence... I guess they had been burnt. They all came out and I was sitting there wondering where Baus was, hoping he didn't try to make it across the river that was moving pretty good, and then he comes out from under that fence. We tied a couple of the pups up, and took Baus and headed to Fred. Ended up getting two smaller hogs instead of the big boy we started after. That was the first and last time I let Baus go without a collar, and I now know that he isn't affraid to go almost a mile to follow the dogs.


AND then not to mention the story that just happened with me and my buddy Baus... LOL! It is what it is I guess. 

[SwampHunter]

We were hunting down in some swampy stuff we bayed a hog an got to about 120 yards turned 3 CD loose my pit an my stag an fonzies pit , at this point my stag had only been on 2 hogs I think , well we turn the bull dogs loose an right when they head that way it breaks goes across a river an I catch my stag an fonzies bulldog but loose comuncation with aces collar I'm Here hollering an runing up an down the bank I thought he got his vest hung up an was drowining well after 5 min or so of looking I decided he was a goner an the garmin showed the other dogs treed at 1.3 miles so we headed that way , well half way there fonzie said that aces collar showed him with the other dogs ,  I didn't belive it we kept thinkin man the garmin just messing up I don't think he could of made it that far through all this water we been swimming through , well there a big creek to go through the other guys are goin to go around I decided to swim
It so I swim
Getting close to the bay I hear the hog grunting an sneak up there peaking over the bushes I see ace caught on this toothy 165 pound hog right on creek bank he looked at me as to say hurry the heck up an leg this thing I been holding him forever lol I go in there pit a hobble on his back leg an tye him to tree an get dogs off an finish hobbling the hog an sit down to take a break well when my buddies get close they sent my stag to catch the hog not knowing I had him tied already lol it was pretty funny , he was cut up on his front legs but that's the day I learned my lil short legged blue pit can take a hot track an trail it ,  several times now he has taking a track on a hog that broke an run it down an gethere right as the dogs are bayed or I think sometimes he gets there an catches with them , crazy little dog