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Obama stumbled up to a guys house in New Waverly in 2007. Not really sure what he was with a little brown, some white and alot of black; Erik named him Obama.

He was a great catchdog, it's hard to even put a number on the amount of hogs he's caught since he's been with us. He was frustrating at times, barked alot in the buggy,  and was hard to catch after he got let go.. But man he sure got the job done.

He easily has caught 25+ hogs over 300#'s and 2 over 400#. The last 400#'er ultimately ended his life as he never recovered from his cut to his tailbone area from the big Barr hog caught during the Beaumont Tournament. For the people that are still against allowing Barr hogs in a stringer of hogs, maybe y'all need to have one of your teams best dogs killed by a Barr one day in a tournament to wake up and realize this isn't a game.

Me and Obama have been in some binds before. The most memorable one for me was a 353# Barr hog about 4 years ago. Parvo and girlfriend were bayed about a 150 yards in. Erik told me to go ahead and send him from a ways out as we had been in small hogs all day. From 60 yards out I sent him. Not a peep,  no squeal, and the bay dogs kept hammering. As soon as I get there, the gyps roll off. It was an extremely deep sided, narrow creek that was hard to maneuver in. Obama hung to him  flopping on the ear about 150 yards down the creek where it finally opened up. After forever, i finally was able to flip the hog. Me and Obama both just about passed out after I tied him. This is just one of dozens I'll remember about this dog

RIP buddy

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(http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp289/baseball_10_03/1308665937.jpg) 353# Barr

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Rip sorry to hear that

Hate to hear that guys.  A good dog whether Cur dog or bulldog, when he's part of that many memories, he becomes part of the family.

VERY SORRY to hear that Tony.  It sucks to loose the good ones. 

http://www.easttexashogdoggers.com/forum/index.php?topic=25712.msg205287#msg205287

two pretty good videos of him catching some big hogs in this link above.

Luckily Big E has a young replacement that will be ready to go by next year for him.

Sorry to hear that Tony and Erik..

No matter what he was, he was a hog dog!! Sorry for your loss bud!!!

Sorry for the loss, RIP Obama

RIP Obama, very sorry for your loss. That was a fine lookin dog.

Sorry to hear that fellas.  R.I.P. Obama

he was a good one

Sorry to hear it Big E and Tony.

Sorry for yalls loss. RIP

Sorry for ur loss, RIP

Sure hate to hear that. He was a catching machine.  That last Barr he caught was tuff and he did his job. I was there and know how  bad he was. People will never understand our ways they can stay on there side of the dogging world and I will stay on mine. Rip Obama

RIP OBAMA , very sorry for your loss

Sorry for yalls loss Tony.

I know im a little late, but very Sorry for yalls loss guys. Sucks to loose one, but a good in makes it even more tough. Good luck on the new prospect.

I'm late too,.....it's painful to lose a really good one. I hate that for y'all.

I hate to here that. I love the color and the way Obama looks. Sorry for your loss  :-[ ........
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I'm still against Barr Hogs in tourneys though.

That's ok, your still wrong.

Guys do we need to do this again??? You have your sides and that fine, we wont get anywhere tryin to argue our points to each other. Agreed??

Jeebus Justin, I'm just playin.

Question: Tournaments or not we are all going to hunt and enjoy it (I hope) at any given time.The possibility of a dog getting injured or killed is always there so why does this even come up as an argument for a tourney. Some how during a tourney when a dog is injured or killed it means more or deserves an argument because it was during a tourney... Why? I have to believe more races and injured or killed dogs come from straight boars than barrs just due to the number of boars vs barrs in the woods...

Btw. Kinda of disrespectful on my part. Sorry for your loss on the dog. Sounds like he was a good one.

Lol, not sayin ur serious at all but stevie wonder can see where this thread is heading!!! ;)

Unbelievable sorry for your loss it looks like he lived a life of a blue blooded dog pampered and spoiled.  Heaven got a good one..

It's easy for you to sit behind a computer screen and have an opinion on this, but until you live this real life. You have no clue!! I don't care if I offend people.  We are just showing a huge flaw in the rules of tournament hunting by not allowing barrs in the stringer. We've done this way more than 95% of the other Internet hog hunters and we just want to open people's eyes that this isn't a game. We push our pack of dogs to the absolute limit in these tournaments. Sometimes on the last day of tournaments our dogs limp out there on 3 legs, cut up and still do there job. a hog is a hog, and its a shame when they go through all that hard work for nothing. Those same dogs have caught 196 hogs since the middle of January. Trust me we do it for fun, but we enjoying winning and we are good at it.

Even if we just change a few people minds I'll keep bringing this idiotic issue up. And if you have a problem with it, don't read the f'n thread! Erik, Chance and I used to get on this site 4 or 5 times a day and comment/help countless people out on questions, read every thread, etc. We apologized to Mike last time we saw bc now we hardly get on ETHD once every 2 weeks or so.

It's easy for ppl to sit back and comment and form opinions on this but put yourself in our shoes in these tournaments. Imagine that it's YOU out there with your favorite dog wrecked, gutted or even worse case scenario DEAD! And then to top it off we lost roughly $8-9k in two tournaments because of this do itin rule change. If you can still sit there and say you arnt a mad SOB and it doesn't bother you in the least way. I'll shake your hand and call you a better man than us

Tshelly, I respect you and Cward, neither of you have ever been disrespectful or rude to me in the past, I have talked to Chance back and forth on a couple of occasions through PM's in the past and have never had a bad thing to say about him.  I honestly can say that I see where you are coming from BUT people have their own opinions and you have to respect that as well. I see where you are coming from and understand that it can be frustrating as hell but it is what it is. However I don't have the time to hunt tourneys like ya'll do so I don't and most likely wont ever be in that situation and I dang sure wont put myself in a situation to lose 8-9k in a tournament on hogs ( I like my money where it is....in my pocket  ;)).........hate that ya'll lost the money but had you decided not to hunt the tourney not allowing barrs would you have still lost the money?

Tony, I'm not trying to derai lyour thread and I hope that you realize this, I know you lost a dang good dog and a member of your pack to a barr in a tourney where barrs aren't allowed and that SUCKS....there no 2 ways about it. I hope ya'll find a good up and comer to fill the void for the dog you lost AND aside from one other tourney team I will be rooting for ya'll again this coming season, Best of luck to you sir.

You miss understood me. This was not money out of pocket loss, it was potential winnings on two tournaments that in the past had allowed Barrs before the rule change last year... And one has already stated they'll be going back to the original rules next year

We won't hunt the tourneys that don't allow them anymore, last year was the exception as it was the first year the rule had ever been put in place

I respect the opinions of people that are in the same room, not those looking in from the outside

10 4 to what I hilighted in red, you are correct, I did misunderstand you, thanks for clearing it up.......regardless money lost SUCKS!!!

Also, 10 4 to what I hi-lighted in yellow, sounds like the best decision givin the circumstances.

As far as what I have hi-lighted in blue, I would like to think that that particular comment was not directed towards myself.......while I DO NOT actively compete in any of these tournaments I do see and hear just about everything that goes on in the from numerous sources and as an active hog-hunter would like to think that I am not on the outside looking in-----not quite sure how to take that comment but its all good regardless. Good luck to you and your team next year!