EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

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Here are my CAT/PLOTTxPIT pups at 6.5 weeks old.  (Black one belongs to a buddy.)

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My favorite of the group, "DUKE"! Still 6.5weeks here too.

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Now here they are today at just shy of 3 months old!! They did very well, I sure hope the turn out.  Hopefully the little extra bit of PLOTT nose on them will help them start sniffing out some swine soon! I sure hope so anyway, they'll be just the right age for the woods by May when I graduate college and with any luck I'll have a pack again!

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I also let my old Sammie dog(catXwhippet, white dog in pic) have a little fun too. Now that her foot has finally healed, she's been doing very well in the woods again and reassured me shes not too old for this stuff! Today was more of just a show for all the pups to watch and learn so theyll be ready and know what to expect when its their turn in the ring soon. Other dog is my friend's pointerXbulldogXheelerMUTT he just got recently, did pretty good as well.

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Sammie's always had a thing for the rear, guess cuz theres no teeth on that end!

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Sally trying to get in the trap...

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Sammie picking on a tiny fella'.

Overall good day, better than some days when I feel like just throwing in the towel!  Had fun with friends too while we all worked with our pups and we're all anxious to see what this round of pups will bring to the table.  Anyway, just got a little bored on the computer and thought I'd share the pictures i was looking through with the board. Thanks for reading along, I hope I didnt bore you guys to death with this! I know its not too exciting or near as action&ivory packed as most of y'alls postings, haha :P  Hate that it costs me an arm and a leg just to get away from campus even for one afternoon, let alone get to the woods >:(  Thanks again, take care guys&gals! -Lawson

good looking dogs

I always like when you first start messing with a new pup and see how they react. Then try and bring them along, without getting them hurt too bad, and seeing how they turn out. Sometimes good, sometimes not so good.  But I think tisi is what keeps me raising a litter every few years!

Oh yea, i hear ya on that one! I'm not letting these suckers go out with the big dogs for a long time! ive tried several different methods before and ive always had best luck by showing the pups with 1 older dog a pig in a trap like that letting them go nuts for a while and get them interested and then begin lettting them watch older dogs bay while pups are a safe distance away, all the while be working with their handle on loading in truck, learning their names, etc. then in a few months after doiing the previous for a while actually let them win a battle with a small shoat and praise them, then repeat by going up in size of shoats until its time to have them bay w/older dogs on a decent sized hog but not til theyre around 8-9months then after doing that a while i run a few mock-hunts and trashbreaking-time then i feel theyre ready to tag along on a hunt by 10.5-11months, sooner if they show potential but i started these barking at pigs at 8weeks and thats as early as ive even started so we'll have to wait and see! thanks fellas. -lawson

lawson-dawg what happen 2 the yella pups u had, i don't see any pics of them

Oh yella' dogs....I dont see how some folks swear by them, haha!! What ive got left of them are stashed away at a buddy's place in D'Hanis, he as well as my cousin are working them when they trap any hogs and his son works with their handle and getting them to come to their names and wll that but theyre pretty damn stubborn! One did well after I gave him to a friend in uvalde to work on, he got him to go crazy on trapped hogs but they all just dont listen to much else unfortunately! Might be a bad batch but they still have a bit of room to grow and mature tho so thats what im hoping for! They all vary from 7-9months old so after a year w/o any improvement, my friend's kiddos will have some yard dogs, haha! Sucks tho! Then my prized and most favored yella' gyp pup that came out of "Wright's Blood: HighSierra X Thom's Blood: Charge" was going savage on a trapped 25lb hog (at 14weeks old!!!) died out of nowhere and i lost all hope!! she was just fine and spunky the evening before at feed time, then the next morning she looked like she hadnt eaten in a week so i took her to the vet to fix it all but before vet got in from lunch, she had died on the vet table...  :'( Said it wasnt parvo after tests and they decided that she was more than likely poisoned so some punk probably threw a candy wrapper or battery or something over the fence on their walk home from school and poor pup ate it and it killed her  >:(   When are we going to make a run?!? Im looking for a solid built ROUGH dog to use as a running-catch, doesnt need to find its own hog or anything just as long as it is rough as hell and will follow my strike dogs and helpout my catchy strike gyp to stop one when she finds it, they just need to stop it long enough for the rest of bay dogs to start catching but they wont unless other dogs start being catchy first for some reason but thats annoying me too! Let me know what youve heard of up in Pearsall! Lets run our crews sometime soon as well. keep me posted! -lawson

lawson, when i get some time off i will give u call 2 set up a hunt. everytyhing kind a slow as far as hog hunting