Meat Dogs. (Depression Era style)

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Let's see you biscuit and gravy dogs.. Not trashers. The dogs that are truly versatile in multiple areas of acquiring game.

These are the dogs that can tree squirrel, work cattle during the day and bay hogs or tree coons at night. Easily scolded off unwanted game to be re casted for the appropriate one.

Owned one during my early teenage years ..and had the privilege of hunting behind another that a close friend had during the same timeframe.

Checking to see if there are any gooduns still alive and prospering.

Enjoy!

Here is picture of my Meat dog. Gyp on left...my swamp collie. Was multi versatile.

[b.b.b kennels]

Not gonna lie, when I read Meat Dogs and Depression Era I was halfway expecting a different kind of "Meat Dog". Something that in certain countries would have "Lo mein" written behind it.... Good looking dogs.

[charles]

Not gonna lie, when I read Meat Dogs and Depression Era I was halfway expecting a different kind of "Meat Dog". Something that in certain countries would have "Lo mein" written behind it.... Good looking dogs.

I was kinda thinkn the same thing.

[Coady Curbow]

I don't think there are many of those types of dogs around in today's world.  When I was a kid and worked on my Dad's farm we had stock dogs that would work all day, tree squirrels in the daytime and tree coons at night.  If we raised a puppy and he didn't fit the bill, he didn't live with us long.  Those dogs got up and went to work or went hunting every day.  The dogs of today have a disadvantage that those old dogs didn't have: exposure.  Most people, like me, have a career and hunt when we can.  Hunting two or three times a week for an average of five hours per hunt, I'm lucky to bay as many hogs as I do.  I sure don't have time to try to steer them on any other type of game. 

Back then, nearly every country  family that I knew had a couple of the kind of dogs that you speak of.  Today, I bet there aint a handful of em that live in this county.

[barlow]

about ten years ago I lived on a couple hundred acres with no electric or running water. all I did was fool with some dogs. when the rent came due I'd sell a couple logs to the sawmill. it was a lot of fun for a while. I had a pair of dogs that I could do about anything with. the male was a yellow ladner blackmouth and the gyp was a blackmouth x some kind of travelling salesman.

we'd tree coons at night or maybe the occasional possum.



in the morning we'd make a round and tree a squirrel for breakfast . . or better yet, on those days when we get the drop on a groundhog we'd eat a little more.



but the dogs had jobs too. for instance protecting my chickens. if something came around messing with the hens it was shame on them. I once saw the black gyp come about 8 feet off the ground and retrieve a chicken hawk who was attempting to make off with a pullet. then they held him at bay til I was able to take a couple pictures before giving the kill sound.



but they weren't above trashing on something to satisfy their curiosity. we bayed a fisher once before he escaped into a hole.



or I'd try pranking them into swimming out in the water after a beaver . . which we were never successful with.



but life was pretty laidback. we'd sometimes hike for days in the old strip mines. sleep when we got tired. eat whatever we came across. good times for us. not so much for this turtle. lol.

[BA-IV]

That's a helluva life story right there!

[arh030]

Damn, 8 foot vertical and could bay birds.  Pretty good. Almost sounds stretched...

[rdjustham]

Not the best pic I have, but the dog on the left is my old Dixie dog.  Found her under my girlfriend at the time parents house back in high school.  I did a lot of small game hunting back then and she would find rabbits, retrieve dove/qual, and tree (run them up and just sit there and look at them) the snot out of opossum and coons (I didn't bother with them once she treed them).  She has only ever been on two hogs in her life, both of which was by accident as shes been a pet/companion her whole life, and one of the most protective and hard headed dogs ive ever had.  I wasn't around you weren't coming in the yard or getting close to the truck. definitely a one man dog.  Im hers shes mine end of story, no one else matters lol.  Shes 15 this year, hearing going, most of her teeth gone and is a couch potatoe.  Cant stand me leaving the room.  Only regret is I don't have any pups out of her, but since I don't know for certain what she is (im fairly certain there is pit in there) I never wanted to breed her.

[hillbilly]

All of mine are like that they will run, bay, or kill about anything they run across.

[hog bit]

Ole boy up around Bosier has a Drathaar that hunts whatever he tells her to.  I've heard she can tree squirrels, retrieve birds, and hunt hogs.

[SaltyhoggerJr]

Not gonna lie, when I read Meat Dogs and Depression Era I was halfway expecting a different kind of "Meat Dog". Something that in certain countries would have "Lo mein" written behind it.... Good looking dogs.

I was kinda thinkn the same thing.

Y'all aren't the only ones haha.

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Not gonna lie, when I read Meat Dogs and Depression Era I was halfway expecting a different kind of "Meat Dog". Something that in certain countries would have "Lo mein" written behind it.... Good looking dogs.

I was kinda thinkn the same thing.

Y'all aren't the only ones haha.

WTH   

Telling me you boys ain't never tried Bluetick over rice?

Only way you can cook Catahoula is to boil it several times like pokesalad. Even then its comes up short range on the taste buds.  Lol

[charles]

Not gonna lie, when I read Meat Dogs and Depression Era I was halfway expecting a different kind of "Meat Dog". Something that in certain countries would have "Lo mein" written behind it.... Good looking dogs.

I was kinda thinkn the same thing.

Y'all aren't the only ones haha.

WTH   

Telling me you boys ain't never tried Bluetick over rice?

Only way you can cook Catahoula is to boil it several times like pokesalad. Even then its comes up short range on the taste buds.  Lol

Now thats funny myles.
Not sure what that doggies in window were (hides were already yanked off), but a bowl of that n some rice, it was a belly full n some of the best food iv eaten. Not sure i could eat these dogs over here, muscles are to well developed n would b tough as leather

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Ate me some stuff round the persian gulf countries that didn't have a back foot or hoof attached. 

But slap it in some fried bread and secret sauce.......went down real nice.

Heck.....could have been a local..... 

[charles]

I ate some of the local quesine in afghanistan my last tour. I didnt ask, just sat back n enjoyed the food. I did though ask for the recipie for the bread n how to make it. After i found out the bread was kneaded with the feet of the people, i looked at it a lil differently afterwards, but that didnt hender me from eating more. I do know though, the meat was NOT mutton, coulda been ibex, mnt goat, dog, cat or some other meat, maybe even camel. What ever it was, i couldnt get enuf of it.

[mod93dirt]

Shoot, every time my wife gripes about the cost of a grocery shopping trip to walmart, I remind her of the horses we have housed at her parents house and what we spend feeding them. When she balks at that, I remind her that the dogs are next. I'm a firm believer that with enough tobasco or sriracha, anything can taste halfway good!!

Lol! Of course I'm only halfway kidding!!  But guarantee you if need ever be my good hunting horse would become a good dinner!!

[Bowhunter1994]

He is bearly 1 year old but will retrieve doves, blood track, chase rabbits and hunt hogs. I could pretty much sick him on whatever because he is so smart. I mainly plan on using him for hogs and a back up bay dog with a wounded buck. He is a blue lacy /catahoula cross.


Sonny

[Irondog87]

Awesome stories and pics fella! Baying a chicken hawk is gunna be hard to beat!!

[Rick B]

This little dog was a cull to a young man because see would not bark at a hog at six months of age. He give her to me and she is hell on wheels. She will work cows, tree squirrels and bay hogs. I haven't tried her on coons but if she catches one on the ground he won't last long. She took a hog track over two miles last week and caught a shoat. Saturday she was hanging off a big sow dragging her through the woods. She has no training. She will just figure out what I won't her to do and do it. She is a true meat dog. But she can be a lap dog too. She will ride all day with me on the tractor and will get mad if I don't let her ride with me. I think if I was to asker her to catch me a grizzly bear she would. I have only owned one other dog like this in my live time and I have been around for a while.


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[dallas22]

This little dog was a cull to a young man because see would not bark at a hog at six months of age. He give her to me and she is hell on wheels. She will work cows, tree squirrels and bay hogs. I haven't tried her on coons but if she catches one on the ground he won't last long. She took a hog track over two miles last week and caught a shoat. Saturday she was hanging off a big sow dragging her through the woods. She has no training. She will just figure out what I won't her to do and do it. She is a true meat dog. But she can be a lap dog too. She will ride all day with me on the tractor and will get mad if I don't let her ride with me. I think if I was to asker her to catch me a grizzly bear she would. I have only owned one other dog like this in my live time and I have been around for a while. whst is she? Looks a lot like my cat pit I got


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