Old Hog Dogs

[Jason Dunn]

I was thinking of how many out there still hunting old dogs 10+ years old I have one she will still hunt she's not that fast but still getting it done she should be about 12 year old now. I have a buddy has a solid little dog and 11 years old but hes like mine cant hunt every day about 2 times a week.

[Reuben]

I was going to start a thread that was titled “ A DOUBLE SHOT OF TESTOSTERONE “...but this thread will do

I have a young dog that is solid bone and muscle and he can go and go in the heat or the 2.5 months of laying up cause of deer season...he was fresh and ready to keep hunting after the other dogs needed help coming out of the woods...even with the major injury he received...obviously not in a critical area...I’ve had to learn how to handle this dog...he will be one of those that will look and act young at ten...

I had another one years ago of the same type but a little more manageable...his name was Smoke but I called him Thunderheart...back then I tested for speed and stamina and he could outlast my lead dog in stamina...both dogs were almost equal in all areas but Smoke was a little more muscled out naturally...smoke looked and hunted like a five year old dog at ten...

[Goose87]

I had a little scatter bred cur that got killed in a completely freak accident at home that was 13 years old and would give you every single ounce he had in his tank every time out, in his older age he wasn't quite the dog he once was but you could count on him to be at just about every bay and be gumming the hog with everything he had along with the bulldog, he was truly a warrior until his last day, if I could put his heart in the dogs I have now who are far superior in a lot of different areas than he was I would have some serious business in the box, through the years when my pack started getting better I would loan him out to others to help get young dogs going, there's no telling how many pups he started, he was hotter nosed and shorter legged than most so he never took a track that was to cold for the pups to be able to smell and dang sure couldn't flat out leave them, I can't tell y'all how many times I cussed that little son of gun for staying hooked on one when I was ready to go home or stitched him back together over the years but would love to have the old man around a little longer, he had become more of an old friend than a hunting dog in his last years, I had tried several times to let him live out his days as an old farm cur dog but he would always leave and I'd get a phone call and he'd be way off from the house somewhere and the last time he was about 5 miles as the crow flies and was missing for about 3 days before I got a phone call that he had wondered up to somebody's house, he dang sure wasn't anything special and was probably on the lower end talent and athletic wise but by golly he was all heart and 100% hog dog, when he barked I never questioned him, the dogs I have now are far superior than he was but I'm willing to bet I'll never get the production out of them at 13 years old like I did him....

[Judge peel]

Damit goose sounds like he was a hand


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[Goose87]

Damit goose sounds like he was a hand


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JP a hand he was, he was the last one out of the very first litter I ever put together, he was by no means anything to write home about that's for sure, I believe what made him be so productive was the fact that he loved to go hunting just as much if not more than me, he just flat out enjoyed doing a job that most, including myself at times,  would consider him not cut out for....

[Judge peel]

That's all we can ask for. That's what pushes the world is hard workers not talent


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[Jason Dunn]

Sounds like a dandy Goose I got one right now that's 3 1/2 shes not the best but I thinks she will live a long life if im carful with her. One thing I like about the old dogs is they are reliable and trust worthy I hope my old dog makes it long enough to show her pups the ropes.

[hillbilly]

Got a gyp that is 10 I still hunt.
Lost a gyp back in the fall at 11 of kidney failure. Back in the summer I lost a male dog that was 15. He was blind and deaf his last year or so of his life.

[Mike]

This little gyp on the tailgate could hunt all day and night like a puppy at 11 years old. I retired her and let her run loose here at the house... one day she disappeared. This pic was taken back in 06 or 07.

[t-dog]

Two of my buddies got my yonder gyp when she was about 10 or 11 to train young dogs. She was 8 1/2 or 9 before the average dog could keep up with her  on track. A few months after they got her, she got on a bad runner. The way I understand it, she ran him for 2 or 3 hours and finished him with a ruptured Achilles tendon. They had to amputate that leg. When they brought her home, she was running and playing like a puppy so they decided to see if she still wanted to hunt. They turned her out alone at 9:30pm and at 9:52pm she was bayed. When they got up to the bay she was baying pretty loose. The bulldog didn't see the hog soon enough and it broke. 700 yards later she was put up again. They fought and tried to get in to her but it was worse than thick. They had to work the next morning so they finally decided to go get a couple hours of sleep come back before work when they could see. When they got back to her that morning, she was still hitting every lick.

[make-em-squeel]

I got a good gyp thats 10  now, she was awesome until about 9 but will still strike a hog or wind off truck, just slower, raising 2 pups for her to train. line bred of tank a weatherford ben dog from bob cox and rodney spivey