Pups Working Hard

Whistler and I took the pups out this morning. Again we had no veteran dog available so we left it up to the pups. We dropped the box and let the pups get some energy out while I vested up Zeuse. After 3-4 minutes of being puppies we called em up and started walking. The plan was the same as last weekend, head off to the left and hit a little brushy draw that feeds down to a pond and small seasonal creek. Again the wind was not in our favor but we would have to make the best of it.
Well...after about ten steps, Whistler says "what's that down there?" I look down towards the draw (about 150 yards away) and see a group of 8-10 pigs moving through the brush. It looks like 4-6 of them would go 150lbs or more and the rest ranged from 40-80. Well, the pigs moved down behind the pond dam so we just kept on down the grassy road, knowing the pups would cross the pigs trail shortly. Well even though the wind was at our backs, the pups picked up there pace and by the time they hit the pigs track they were really moving. They worked it the wrong direction at first but worked it out in short order. Whistler and I were standing off to the side of the dam quietly talking when the Jasper and Buzz passed us and dropped off the dam into some dried out brush/cat tails. They were shortly followed by the girls...Jules, Alice and Bella. It wasn't 5-10 seconds before Jasper and Buzz struck the pigs.
Whistler and I moved in closer....we were only about 40 yards away at this point and I was just trying to let the girls get their too. Well.... We heard lots of movement in the cattails and the pigs broke. We saw them go through a clear area to our left and head to the fence line. About that time we hear a dog really go to yipping on trail and right in front of us a pig about 80-100lbs crosses with my Bella pup less than 10 feet behind it, Jules and Alice were about 10 feet behind her and it was my Alice pup doing the yipping. She is quarter pit and quarter Red Bone, the yipping/squeaking she was making sounded like the typical bulldog squeal you get when they are really excited. I never thought that noise would come from her, she's 65lbs, a big gyp pup. I figured it was Bella or Jules. Anyway, the pig hit the cattails again and lost the dogs and that was the last time the dogs saw them.
Though we didn't get a pig stopped and caught Whistler and I are very satisfied with our bunch of 10-12 month old pups.