Rip's first hunt as a "dog". (train, Colorado)

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by jimboburnsy

If my five year plan to get rich works out, I'll keep a pack of curs or plott hounds for pigs.

Until then I'm a retriever keeper.

Sometimes the dog forum can be as bad as the politics forum...

Yes...it is hard to talk about a hunting dog with using the word "hunting".

[Bulldogdad]

I love sitting high on a ridge listening to dogs running bears down in the canyons during deer season hear in the Sierra Nevada. Might be a thing of the past if the idiot liberal tree hugging socialists in this state get their way.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

I love sitting high on a ridge listening to dogs running bears down in the canyons during deer season hear in the Sierra Nevada. Might be a thing of the past if the idiot liberal tree hugging socialists in this state get their way.

Yep....I love love it when the dogs are chasing something and thier voice changes.

They get that little hiccup in the baying.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by Driller1

Yep....I love love it when the dogs are chasing something and thier voice changes.

They get that little hiccup in the baying.

It's primal, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

It's primal, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

We put Rip in a competition when he was 18 months old.

On all three judges card he had one fault...his voice had not matured to that point.

He still placed 8th.

The first time I heard him hiccup it shocked me how much different it was.

[Bulldogdad]

This is what bear hunting with dogs looks like in my part of the country.

Bear Dogs At Work - YouTube

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

This is what bear hunting with dogs looks like in my part of the country.


Bear Dogs At Work - YouTube

How cool is that???!!!!!!

Thanks.

It looks a little like the NC area Rip hunts in.

[Katie1]

Hunters around here Eat want they kill & Dont allow their dogs to harrass the wild life. Dogs are Trained to come when called even on a Hot trail. Yes the Baying is Beautiful to listen to. Just last year they used a pack of bear dogs to roundup 2 1/2 grown cubs. The dogs surounded them & held them til the humans could get to them to dart them. No Dog came withing 20 ft of the bears!! Bears were re-located. We get alot of Black Bears around here.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Hunters around here Eat want they kill & Dont allow their dogs to harrass the wild life. Dogs are Trained to come when called even on a Hot trail. Yes the Baying is Beautiful to listen to. Just last year they used a pack of bear dogs to roundup 2 1/2 grown cubs. The dogs surounded them & held them til the humans could get to them to dart them. No Dog came withing 20 ft of the bears!! Bears were re-located. We get alot of Black Bears around here.

Wow....they either do not train or, kill with out tags.

I think you have never been around hounds.

Did you wach the video???

Do you think those hound could have been called back????

Many of Rip's runs have been over 20 miles.

I really could not just e-mail him....

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

It's primal, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I think I know what you're talking about. The sound of the bay dogs changes when a boar decides to quit running and start fighting. It certainly quickens the pulse, but not as much as grabbing a boar by the tail or hind legs does...