EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I'm typing this to try and inform some of y'all of what is happening in everyone's hog hunting world right now! It is called Psuedo Rabies! This is different from the regular rabies, that we all give our dog a shot for yearly! There is not a shot for Psuedo Rabies! I'm not a veterinarian or a professional, but have been asking a lot of questions trying to learn about this and just wanted to share some information I have gathered, because this is serious! TWilbanks and his gang caught a boar Saturday night, and as of Monday evening, 48 hours later, 4 cur dogs and the cd have all died from it! One sick hog killed 5 dogs!

If your dog contracts the disease, it will die! The disease seems to attack their brain and make them go crazy!

I know personally of 10 dogs that have died in the last month from this disease here in Texas! It's not from just one geographical region either, the first I heard of was in Teague, Freestone County. Last week a friend was hunting between Huntsville and Trinity, Walker and Trinity Counties! This weekend it happened up in northeast Texas, near Dangerfield, in Morris County.

The hogs transferred the disease by simply cutting the dogs, not a severe cut by anyone's judgement, OR by the dogs catching/biting the hogs. So the disease is in the hogs blood and saliva.

The signs of the infected dogs start out with slobbering and really droopy bottom eye lids and then most dogs start severely scratching their skin around their head, eventually scratching through their skin. One dog started scratching behind its front shoulder until the hide was raw!

One of the dog owners in Teague got cut by the hog also, and he had to go through a round of 19 shots over a couple week period!

So if you have a dog mysteriously die a few days after catching hogs, or your dog starts showing these symptoms, be careful! It's not supposed to be able to transmit from dog to dog, according to the State man that came to Trinity, but if an infected hogs saliva can transmit it why can't an infected dogs saliva?

 I just wanted to try to spread the word so people have some knowledge of what is going on in the woods!

Appreciate the heads up Big E!

I believe Jesse Paul went through this awhile back and posted on here about it.

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info, kinda wary about that. Seems like everywhere you named puts us just about in the middle. Jewett,tx ain't far fewer m any of those cases.

Thanks for sharing. I went to a feral hog seminar and got the spill about pseudo rabies and swine tebercullosis and they said that they ran a test on feral hogs in Louisiana and 80% of the hogs they tested had swine tebercullosis. If a human gets it then your supposedly going to have flu like symptoms for the rest of your life... What I gathered from it and there is no cute yet for it if a human catches it  

Pseudo rabies is bad stuff... I wonder why the outbreak all of the sudden? You normally hear of one or two cases every year or so.

Thanks for the info.


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I ment swine BRUCELLOSIS not TB got sidetracked

Erik, we figured out that they didnt get it from the hog the other night...

Last week we caught 6 hogs, nothing over 100 pounds and nothing with any teeth.. No dogs with any cuts/knicks...

The dogs didnt show any symptoms until last night... We hunted a few times between the time all those dogs were together and the time they started showing symptoms... All the dogs acted and hunted fine between that period...

Hunted Saturday night and dogs were fine... Went to feed Sunday evening and my bulldog had already scratched the skin off his head and was swollen... Eyes red and droppy, slobbering pretty bad.. Made a call to confirm what it was and put him down...

The curs looked fine that night.. Came home from work today and one was already dead and the other was bad off...

It must not take much to get it, because my curs would roll out once we got to them, and we were right on top of them each time we caught a hog...  This just adds another reason as to why I would rather my curs never put their mouth on a hog...

RIP Molly, Hawk, Lady, Big Mac, and Daisy...

Loosing Molly and Hawk sure put some hurt on me and my pack...

Hawk
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Lady in the middle
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Molly
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Hate to hear it. Those are some fine looking dogs. sorry for your loss.

Sorry twill. If you would like to try one of my nird dog pups you are more than welcome to one or two.

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Man that hawk & Molly were some gret looking dogs. Sorry to hear about that. It's all over south fl, had a freinds dog die late last year from it

Erick is their anything we can do to help prevent this

Sry for your losses guys

Can't imagine loosing that many at one time. Terrible deal and i sure hate to hear it trenton.


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I know that's a big loss for you bud! So sorry to hear that happened to you and your dogs.

Really sorry to hear about your dogs


I hope your able to bounce back from such a huge loss.

Takecare

Chris Hearne

number 2. Sorry to hear Trenton. Scary stuff.

Trenton, I'm sure sorry about your loss... that's a tuff one.

Sorry to hear about it man couldnt imagine loosing my whole team like that

Man that's a bad deal. Hated to hear about Molly and Hawk. Sorry for your loss.

Hate to hear something like that, sorry for all those you lost

Hate to hear that about the dogs. 

I have asked a number of vets about Pseudo Rabies, and they all have told me the same thing, get the best rabies shot you can for a dog, and it will offer a degree of protection.  When they say get the best rabies shot there is, they all say get the one that only vets carry now (which I believe only vets carry a rabies vaccine now days).  I have worked with many pig farms and confinements over the years, and Pseudo Rabies is not something to mess around with.  If one of your dogs come down with it, burry the dog, bleach or better yet, throw away food bowl and water bucket, get rid of the house, and do not put another dog in that spot for a long time. 

Sorry for your lost,this is a hard pill to swallow,i put 3 curs and a cd,in the ground few yrs bk.over the yrs i seen it come and go,i drew blood for the state 3 yrs ago,out of 50 hogs,15 had it.i have found out the hard way.what do you do,roll with the punches,i really dont like my curs catching.sorry man.

Me & my hunting buddy have lost 12 dogs over the years to pseudo.I did a lot of research on it several years ago.I was told by a Texas A&M vet professor that he could develop a vacine for dogs ,but the pharmaceutical companies would not give him a grant for this because there weren't enuogh hog hunters to pay for the vacine.That was about 20 years ago.Maybe now it be done since there are many more hunters now.

So very sorry for your losses....that's horrible.

We hunt in freestone and Livingston


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Sorry for the dogs kinda wary about hunting around there till I know more


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