Hunting Dogs! Lets see yours!

[41 Mag]

You folks have some awesome companions there. Sure have enjoyed viewing them, and thinking back on our past Goldens. They were great friends who were gone way to fast.

We got the present one as a stray picked up my one of the officers that works with my wife. He was pitiful looking as a few week old pup, didn't hardly have enough rear to keep his chin off the ground. Didn't take long to fill out though.

He isn't much for gun fire and generally none is needed, you just tell him to get it, and then all he wants to know from then on, is where you want it. His other motto is don't screw with tha cook,


I don't hunt him per say, but he does go to the woods with us every chance we can get away. He will trail anything as long as I will let him, and follow, but will break off on command with no issues. No formal training has been done other than the simple obediance commands, and he has been a teddy bear with all fo the family and grandkids. His favorit past time is getting anything which resembles a rat, and at around 30mph which is as fast as I can keep up with him in the pasture, most squirrels on the ground are SOL if he sets his sights on them.

 

[jacob.elliott]

my former hunting buddy

sadie the redbone

 

[cooch]

Living and working on my own 1800 acre property, pest control is a job, and I enjoy having the dogs to hunt foxes or rabbits on an opportunity basis. The pic below is of us waiting for a fox to bolt. It has been worked, or harassed underground by the terriers, and most foxes become so insecure at being cornered by a dog that they'll take advantage of a quiet spell to seek safer refuge.


Tessa, the Staghound is 25" at the shoulder. 3yo and with a lovely temperament.
Mystey, the Whippet is a 4yo. Too light for the work, as she has trouble pulling up a fox that is determined to get to cover, but she's desperately keen and makes a good mate for the Stag.
The shorter of the two JRTs is Khannie. Risning 11yo, and a handy underground worker. Same goes for her 7yo daughter, Shortie. Slightly more leggy than her mother, and slimmer in the chest. A good den-dog, but not so hard that I have to dig her out.

This is what one hopes happens next.

Note the size of the dust-plumes being raised by my two speed-merchants. There is some power going to the ground, there.

At other times, we find them in trees.


... and getting them out can be rather exciting.


.... for everyone except the prey.


Great stress-relief for a farmer coping with his third year of drought.


The black-and-tan dogs are my Kelpie sheepdogs. Enthusiastic participants in any foxing, but not owned for their capabilities in that department.

Regards...... Peter

 

[ChefJeff1]

Today, we're hunting steelhead. German wirehair pointer and a lab, malamute, kuvasz mix.

 

[TIMC]

Here is mine hunting dog, She's hunting for a way back to the condo!


Her she is laying in wait for some prey!


Yep she's a real killer alright!

 

[halfacop]

The Whole Clan in Iowa.....



One of my Favorite pics of My Boy. Frosty Morning in Iowa



Gettin' the job done as always!

 

[SHvar]

Mine are great groundhog hunters, they hunt as a pack. The larger dog (the younger dog) is a husky/lab/shepard mix, he is very fast and 82 lbs of muscle. The smaller dog (older dog) the pure husky is the killer, so strong, fast in a sprint, efficient and all business when it comes to the kill.
Both have a strong instinct to go after coyotes, the younger dog is the only one who has had a chance in this state to do so. Fortunately for the coyote the deep grass and darkness allowed him to escape.
If deer hunting with dogs were legal my younger dog would be perfect, he would chase, knock the deer off its feet over and over until it was exhausted or dead.
Notice the tooth marks on the groundhog, one quick bite, no shaking needed, it was dead.

 

[Flintknapper]

 

[6x6pinz]

This is my first lab. In this photo he is 8 months old

 

[SHvar]

My mixbreed just added a large rabbit to his kill list. I just returned home after getting the dogs hours of good hard exercise and they looked beat.
I opened the garge door into the backyard and saw a rabbit 120 feet away, told them "get the bunny rabbit", in 2 seconds (NO exageration) flat the rabbit was captured, and almost ripped clean in half.
The rabbit only had to run 10ft and slide through the fence to escape.
Of course then I had to take the rabbit from the purebred husky who took it from the mixbreed.

 

[chute2thrill]

not to sound unmanly but ya'll are gonna make me cry... every one of those pictures could be a awesome painting!!!

 

[JustsayMo]

 

[Mokwepa]

Here is Havanna (Piet Zyn Drift Havanna), a South African Boerbull. One of our only breads. They were bred to protect the first settlers against wild animals. There are documented cases of boerbulls killing hyena and leopard. Vanna weighs about45kg and is very fit and energetic. I have two boerbulls, a veimaraner(spelling) and two dachunds(spelling). Vannas dad is rated at 96%, no. 3 in the world. She is too agresive (towards non whites not taught by me or my wife) so i cant get her graded.

 

[noob_shooter]

poor fox.. haha

 

[interlock]

this is my brown labrador bitch in her favourite environment!



this is my ratting terrier giving the vacuum cleaner the good news



daisy with her last litter of pups



and in her normal working environment

interlock

 

[cooch]

poor fox.. haha

Noob Shooter.

We consider your sympathy <chuckle> somewhat misdirected.



I hope that the "claret" does not contravene forum policy.

In truth, my JRTs are not particularly "hard" and tend to bay rather than attempting to kill. However accidents do happen, sometimes due to a particularly agressive fox, and sometimes due to one puhsing the other into the fox in her enthusiasm.

Both have healed well. A couple of "9-minute eggs".

Peter

 

[cooch]

If I may indulged...

Action pics are the hardest to get with fast-moving animals. I have too many photos of small , blurry things in that far distance.

These are about as good as mine get. Love those running-dogs!

 

[Mokwepa]

Man those are cool action pics. How the hell did you keep up with them?

My one boerbull is a bit of a mess at the moment. Got bit by a big puff adder. He has a big hole in his neck but its healing up slowly. My dogs are great at killing snakes, except for thuis once.

 

[cooch]

Mokwepa.

Number one answer is "always carry a camera".

No. 2 is telephoto and lots of pics, hoping for a good one. Sometimes the prey circles.

Am handicapped by the pocket digital which has relatively slow processing speed and no viewfinder. When I can justify the expenditure, I'll be shopping for a Digi-SLR with a higher frame rate and a better telephoto. Viewfinder is a must, too. You can't focus on a screen and the subject seperately.

Burst mode helps, but it cuts down on the resolution.

Snakes are not a joke. I've seen too many Eastern Browns in disused fox-earths, so i don't do much denning in summer. The Terriers are too ready to take them on, and the result is usually a dead heat. Literally.

 

[Mokwepa]

I shoot wildlife with a Canon D30 and image stabilized 300 lense.

 

[btkanz]

Here's my big chocolate male...just got his 1st title a couple of weeks ago.

 

[penny]

not hunting

But doing their second favorite things

 

[Big Bill]

Here's my moose hunting dog Kitty. She's with my bird dog Louie in the second picture; and, their both hunting for dinner.

 

[ljnowell]

This is my home protection dog, Beans.



This is her buddy, Spark Plug (sparky).

 

[SHvar]

Nice action photos Cooch. My husky and husky mix are possibly the best rabbit hunters Ive ever seen. Just in the past week they have captured (and torn in half) 2 very large adult rabbits. One rabbit escaped them by running behind my legs then under a fence gate. Both rabbits were 120ft or more away, both chases started and ended in 2-3 seconds with a rabbit torn in half.
I wouldnt mind it because there are so many right now, but they got sick from swallowing too much fur on one of those, the mess was not fun to clean up. And both of mine are 100% raw fed.