Hounds of war: Let`s see `em!

[barnetmill]

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[barnetmill]

When we lived in Colorado my wife spent most weekends all winter fox hunting. While not as exciting as fighting breeds kill elk and hogs, it does get pretty intense when the hounds are actually chasing a coyote and everyone is following on horseback. The coyotes they chased in Colorado were always faster but the hounds (mostly American Fox Hounds with some English) always had significantly more endurance.

What is popular in the south is to sit in a high place as evening falls where one can hear released packs of hounds run raccoons through the wet lands. A lot of people locally run deer with high endurance type hounds like the walker hounds. Those dogs will not stop. Many of deer will circle and eventually get killed by radio equipped hunters in ATVs that shoot them as they cross cleared areas when chased by the dogs. There has been talked from time to time to restrict dog hunting of deer to standard beagles that will not run the deer so hard. Some deer have learned through natural selection to run straight and not circle to their territory and will run straight across major highways to escape the hounds. During hunting season deer show up in all sorts of places looking for refuge from hunting packs. People complain that such deer hunting is more like game harvesting than hunting. But the dog hunters certainly have their side of argument also.
Of course you have the hog hunters and only the peta beings feel sorry for the hogs. The real hunters use only ropes and knives along with their tracking, bay, and catch dogs. The bulldogs are often keep leased until the hogs are near.

dogs hunting hogs images | True Blue Lacy cur Hog Dogs - National Lacy Dog Association

[barnetmill]

In Colorado hunting with dogs is only legal for varminta and (more recently) rabbits but only for approved clubs to my knowledge. Deer numbers there are completely different and as such the hunting regulations are and for good reason. As for the south with the insanely high populations I see no issue. Sounds like a good time honestly.

Nearby Alabama in recent years has high deer population. But people that I knew from AL told me in the 1950's there were no deer because a lot people were very hungry in those days the deer had been hunted back to very low populations. Even here in the pensacola to milton area deer populations seem to be going up as more people move in. I think it is not so easy to poach in areas of higher populations where the resourceful white tail deer can live and feed near peoples' backyards. The hogs are doing well too.

Dog hunters seem to have some political power here and so the tree sitting hunters have not been able to my knowledge to drastically change dog hunting of deer.

[barnetmill]

Post from: Old White English Preservation Society

I've always loved this pic of Allie, Missy's dam. This horse kept pestering my son pulling at his shirt and this last time he leaned away from him. Allie took his cue of fear and took appropriate action. She didn't bite or chase, just enough force to turn it away from him. She was heavy with pups at the time, about 2 weeks out.

Edit to add:

No training required for any of this. Not to ignore chickens or chase horses or bite them or to read human body language or commands to know how to act and when. BRED in!!

[Mike OTDP]

I keep waiting for someone to post a photo of a lap dog. :-)

[barnetmill]

I keep waiting for someone to post a photo of a lap dog. :-)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lap-dog/105844436112678

[bigdogmom]

Here is my 400 lbs of lap dog. While the Mastiff was originally bred to hunt bear, this modern version hunts for soft places to sleep and snacks from their human counterparts.



Droid did it!

[Wolverine33]

I keep waiting for someone to post a photo of a lap dog. :-)

I did, back on page 44

[barnetmill]

Firewood time. LOL.

[Harleystreetbob]

That picture just made my day. Haha