EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

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I put 4 pups n my running pen today that were 6 6 1/2 months old. I caught the 2 younger ones out at about a hour n they had run close to 7 miles. My daughter called n I had to meet her in town and did not get back for a few hours. Anyway the 2 6 1/2 month pups were lying by the gate when I got there. I checked the Garmin and those pups had a heck of a run. I think they are going to stick on a running hog.


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Nice you could loan me one when ever you feel then need lol. I would say so


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dang those pups put in some work!

Can't beat that... I bet they slept good that night.

Nice,how big is your running pen Cajun and do you have hogs in there or is it just for exercise?

My running pen is 25 acres & thick. I only keep one animal in there & I think it is a hog, it looks like a hog, & roots like a hog but when I put dogs in there, I would swear it has a red cape on &  jets in each foot. Yeah Mike, they did not bark all night. lol

That's that good breeding mile the ones I got from you will never be sold. They have tons of bottom.

That is awesome for 6.5 month old pups...

10/4 that's pretty dang sweet.

sounds good Cajun .....  Cajun I have a 300 acre pen and  sometimes I think I do more harm in there than good ....

Parker, I think if you pound pups in a pen, you can definitely do some harm. Those pups have been in that pen a total of 3 times, normally about every 3 weeks. I normally catch them out after about a hour but due to circumstances, had to leave them in. It is a tool, just like  a shock collar.  I have been using it for years to get puppies started & so far, have had no negative effects. Another two months or so, they will be ready for the woods. I know a lot of people would be taking them to the woods now if they are running but I don't for two reasons. One, they cannot run with the grown dogs & two, I do not want them getting on the wrong hog at 6 1/2 months old. These pups have run loose until they were 5 months old & after running them in the pen some, all I have to do is put them in hog sign & brother, you better believe they can trail the hogs up.

Cajun that sounds like a good deal you got going right there. Those pups sound pretty dang good to me good luck on em


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Thanks Judge. Larry is right tho. I do not run my older dogs in there because they will learn to cheat. I had a dog Magnum that whenever the hog would run lenghtways in the pen, Magnum would come out to the middle road, run down a few hundred yards & then cut in.

Sounds like you have a couple of dam nice prospects Cajun. That's a lot of "stick" for any dog, much less 6.5 month old pups. Hope they finish out nice for ya.
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Well if they ever need a new home, I suppose I could help you out with em.  ;D

That's good for a young dog! 

I've noticed a few problems that seem to develop in a pen ..... maybe its just because of the curdogs and them being silent they don't pull to a race of older dogs .... they will run a hog so far  or long them come back and try and get on another hog ..... I got 2  right now doing it they wind off the buggy find there own hogs but if it breaks  they will run it about 600 yards or so come back and try and jump another one ....my son has  a  littermate brother to one of them been in the pen one time he will go  for miles with the other older dog running a hog ...I got a 15 month old male young dog been in there 2  times  he will find his own hogs yesterday he run sign root'n  jumped at 350 yards and bayed  one time at about 600 yards and  it broke and I called my older son at the camp on the river .4 miles away where he caught him after  he give  it up here it crossed the road ......I see the difference  from the pups  run in the pasture too much verses the pups  not  run just started in the pasture ..... I would say it probably effects  these silent dogs a little more because they can't  hear a race  to  go too or pack with mine  run a lot by themselves .....good start  tool  but to much is definitely too much for  my dogs  anyway ....

Like Cajun said they are a tool and only need to be used every now and then, one thing I've noticed is that a hog over runs it own track more often, with a young dog that's just getting started and by itself, they get in there and while running they cross over the old track that might've been just laid minutes before, well then the young dog smells a line that's almost as hot as the one in front of him, what I've seen it do is create back tracking a problem and teaching a dog when it makes a lose to pick up the wrong trail , ( let me give an example of what I'm referring to, a friend of mine I hunt with sometimes dogs will run all night and never leave a 300 acre block of woods and he thinks they are pouring the coals all night, swears that hog is about to bay because he's making small circles, his dogs are just picking up a track they've already ran and run it over and over) I've watched it more times that once on my garmin, what I've always used mine and my buddy's, we each have one several acres, for is just to get them started, mine is big timber and semi thick, his is dry as heck and a big briar and broom sage thicket.

Not trying to ruffle feathers, but what Cajun has in my opinion is some top notch hounds. I just recently acquired my first plott. Dog is just a year old now and hates a hog. I started him way to early just because he had the go and I needed the dog. He has had his tail whooped more than any other pup I've ever owned. And it does not slow him down.  He will range further than any other pup I've owned. Not running circles, hunting. He's got a decent handle and is trusted to hunt any property.  I live in CA, I know state sucks, but my family has been here for multiple generations, and running bears with dogs. I got into hogs when they took bears away from me. To me it's all in bottom. I know in small properties it's hard to deal with, but if you got it you can always tone it down. You can't force a dog to have it. 


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