EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

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I'm in a birddog club and we do Desnaking annually.
Here's some pictures from last year.
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Why would you intentionally walk your dog that close to a live rattle snake????

    lol   to desnake it jr, kind of like running your dogs in a cow pasture amungst a bunch of cattle to cow break them  . you wont know if you got the job done until you put them in the situation to see if they are broke or not  .  I've done the same with copperheads and young dogs . or i'll use a chicken snake if I can't find any copperheads seems to work as well  .  that dog looks like it got the message and want's no part of getting close  .

Bring the dog down wind and they smell it get it all in their nose and  when they want to go for it they get shocked.like you would probably trash break on deer .  It's a pretty popular method for bird hunters that hunt where rattle snakes are . I don't know how many bird hunters read this forum so I thought I'd just post it incase someone's interested

If anyone is interested and has more questions feel free to call the numbers on the flyers .. They've been doing  this for 35 years and can answer questions in more detail

Take care
Chris Hearne

That's me by the way acting like I'm not scared to death of a rattle snake ^ haha

Man,that's right in my backyard. I've never seen a rattlesnake around here. I'm Copperfield.

Stop on by mailman I'll be there on those days .

Copperfield is not even 15 minutes from me.

I have been doing my own desnaking for 15 + years. I am a believer! ;D ;D ;D

I understand now, just never seen or heard of it down here in Florida. I guess it might be a bird dog thing but I've never been around the bird dog sport so I don't know.....I would just rather my dogs run the animal they are trained to run and not worry about the snakes. We have dogs get bit all the time but that's just part of it. Usually a dog gets bit after a hog or deer run through a palmetto thicket or what have you and fires the snake up and then the dogs come through on the track and that's when they get hit. Kinda something you can't avoid in my mind. He'll I bust off in the bushes after the dogs and ya snakes are on my mind but I damn sure ain't gunna stop going because I smell one or think there may be one in the next bush.

I understand the concept just wouldn't expose my dogs to that kind of breaking. Don't want them having that on their mind and then have them quit a track or foul them up running a big buck or something like that.

No problem , I didn't really explain when i posted it. Yes,  I would think it's mostly a bird dog thing but I thought I'd post it here anyways just cause  I have no idea if someone is like me  ( likes bird  dogs , coon dogs and hog dogs ) last year we had around 200 dogs and some people told me they had ranches so that let's me know people we're making a special trip for it.

Anyhow if anyone is interested or has more questions those numbers on the flyers should be able to help
Thanks
Chris Hearne

I understand now, just never seen or heard of it down here in Florida. I guess it might be a bird dog thing but I've never been around the bird dog sport so I don't know.....I would just rather my dogs run the animal they are trained to run and not worry about the snakes. We have dogs get bit all the time but that's just part of it. Usually a dog gets bit after a hog or deer run through a palmetto thicket or what have you and fires the snake up and then the dogs come through on the track and that's when they get hit. Kinda something you can't avoid in my mind. He'll I bust off in the bushes after the dogs and ya snakes are on my mind but I damn sure ain't gunna stop going because I smell one or think there may be one in the next bush.

I understand the concept just wouldn't expose my dogs to that kind of breaking. Don't want them having that on their mind and then have them quit a track or foul them up running a big buck or something like that.


To each his own. All I know is the first 15 yrs I hunted in S Texas I had 5 dogs bitten. After I started desnaking I have not had a single bite and I still catch plenty of pigs.

I would like to,but I'm out of town that weekend

When I was training bird dogs I desnaked a bunch of them. I always pulled the snakes teeth out and sewed his mouth shut just to be sure. Their teeth are constantly growing from back to front.

It is well worth the money for any dog that is going to be in the field or woods. Some dogs you could not melt and pour on a snake from the start. Others would have to be shocked 3 o r 4 times to get the idea. I never had a dog bit while hunting and I hunted all over south and west Texas and some Ok..

One dog I remember would not mess with a rattle snake when we got through with him. However, he was killed in a field trial by a cotton mouth. I guess he just smelled different or something.