This morning, not the super star, but our young Catahoula pup named Dolly Parton for her first trip to the woods. I think she must be pretty good luck.
Started off with a pretty morning and a quick strike, the hogs tried to make a break for the feild but turned and headed back into the woods where a nice boar decided to make a stand, 3 seasoned dogs and Dolly Parton were baying hard as we walked in to watch the dogs work a few seconds before sending Cotton & Smoochy to work, as they entered the zone the boar lunged to meet and greet the two white dogs head on each had their own ear and the boar lunged once and the white dogs dug in and that was when the boar went to huffing !
Dolly Parton with her first hog in the woods
Then we got ourselves gatherd back on the Rhino, and continued on, was not long and they had several sows & pigs bayed, we eased in again to make sure Dolly had a chance to work a bit before sending the Catch power, Smooch caught a sow about 85-90 and Cotton chased his own down as did the bay dogs, catching 4 from this bunch.
Roo & her sow
Regrouped ourselves and loaded two of the oldest dogs, let Deuce & Dolly keep hunting. Deuce opended and we cut the other two gyps loose. Then we had two bays going on
On the way to Deuce hammering, a nice sow runs about 30-40 yards in front of me and freezes. My Smooch is intense zoned in, Thomas still has his dog so I let her fly!
Hog stays put, actully turns into hit Smooch on her way in, pops her and breaks with Smooch on her heels, Thomas goes to the closer baying dogs which was to be Roo and Dolly.
turns out my Catch dog catches her sow on the wrong side of the riverbank, maybe 50 yds from the bay Thomas was heading too. I still had to wade across as I was fussing at Smooch for letting her get across the water.
So Thomas was sticking his sow at the same time as I can hear him talking to the dogs as I was sticking my wet one. we can hear baying still going on, and I got get back across the river!
After a good sloppy wet walk I get there, all the dogs are there baying now, and I am trying to get an idea of where Thomas went. I See the dogs baying and trying to keep em all bunched as some of these sows were pretty agressive and kept charging at the dogs I could count about 30 visible on my side of the trees, and could hear more out of site. I see White dog entering my line of site, so I send Smooch, I watch the two in a race to get to the lead sow, thinking just like brother & sister competing!
Smooch looking like I felt!
Deuce rolled out again and was bayed .67 miles away, we had to find the gap and finally got her back as I was ready to get some lunch and After all that Dolly was the only dog still good to go, Roo had her shoulder chewed on by that sow pretty good and was limping, Sassy had her pad cut and a quickly swelling snake bit leg, and at some point Juicy Deuce had gotten bitten in the foot, cutting the meat between her toes, and now was hobbling around, Time To HEAD HOME
