EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Thought this may be an interesting topic. Also looking to see if anyone has experienced anything similar to what I have going on with couple of mine.

First, has anyone had a dog that covers its poop like a cat?

I have a four year old male and since he was a pup he will poop and cover it lightly with his front paws. Makes it hard on me when I shovel out his chain run to find it. But I have watched him gently do it from the window his whole life. Gets a laugh out of me every time...

Second, has anyone had a dog that eats dirt after being fed?

I have a two year old gyp that after I feed her I’ll see her pour window eating dirt in special spots in her chain run. It got to where I’ll yell at her out the window and she knows what I’m talkin about and will bow head down and leave the area but I’ll see her sneaking back over. It’s spots where she has knawed into the clay substrate beneath the top level. She is in a dif run that is 11yrs old and has been worn down by numerous other dogs over time and none of the others ever ate the dirt. I’ll pick up poop in the runs every day and she have a couple of regular turd piles and at least one that is light brown and hard as a rock and it’s obviously dirt.

Both these dogs have been fed victor their whole lives and get all kinds scrapes so she ain’t lackin in nutrients or minerals. I think she might fit into the habit digging and eating the dung beetles. Still over all the dogs I’ve had I’ve never experienced these two behaviors.

  I dont know about my dogs but some of my hunting buddies sure have some strange quirks. lol

Is the male dog a CATahoula, lol? I haven’t had either of those two issues. One thing I have seen in my dogs runs in the females. They are very consistent dogs in the way they hunt and work. Usually though, just before they come in heat, they will have a hunt where they just are not themselves. They don’t do bad just different and maybe not to the same level they normally are. It’s kinda become a tattletale for me to start paying real close attention.


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My nephew picked up a bulldog the other day. He wasn’t supposed to be dog aggressive but when he got him home, he most definitely was, even towards young dogs running past his kennel. He got so beside himself that he started trying to catch his own tail. Not a casual bite at it, I mean spin a hole in the ground like a reining horse trying to get it! He didn’t keep him.


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Lol...nah he is a bulldog t-dog. Which makes it even funnier watching him delicately bury his pile.

He poops in same area all the time like most do so I just look for little scratch piles of dirt instead of show piles. Lol

We got a bulldog to try once and he did same thing. It was deer season and we brought him up to a 400acre pen in Mississippi for the wknd with our kids and bay dogs and other Bulldogs. To keep em tuned up. He turned out to be child aggressive...bad.

And we corrected him pretty dang hard and after first day dog had went crazy spinning in circle tryn kill his tail. Like you said completely lost it and just spun circles tryn kill his tail.

There’s some faulty wiring there for sure.


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I know of a couple of bulldogs over the years that chewed their own tail off.

Interesting. I retired an old catahoula dog that later on in his life ate dirt. Really not at a specific time of the day, but we’d catch him taking out on walks around the place (he was 14 at his point) and eating dirt in different areas. I’m like you - feed Victor and plenty of clean water so I have no idea what he would’ve been lacking. He transitioned into a perfect house dog and was given scraps as well.


I have two sisters - one gyp and one bitch that are 9 years old. They have 24/7 access to clean water. For some reason right before I feed they gourge themselves with water. Never throw it up or anything,  it as soon as they hear me yell “let’s eat!” they go to drinking.

Anyone ever had that?

jsh did it take less feed for them? I ask because I’ve fed wet dog food during the summer and had to cut back some. I don’t know if it was that the feed was just more digestible wet or if it was a hydration thing, but my dogs gained weight.

9 yrs old isn’t a spring chicken. Maybe their hearing was bad and they just couldn’t tell what you were saying, lol.


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Lol Tdog my hearing ain’t so great either so we all get along pretty well.

They have done it for years. No clue why. Their feed requirements aren’t anything out of the ordinary. They are bonded to each other and more times than not work as a team. They are kenneled next to each other so one may have started it and the other picked up on it. Good thing is they are well hydrated.

Lol this post could get good but I’m with Cajun on this lmao !!  we all goofy in some way to someone including our dogs


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I have this one 2 yr. dog I call Yellow. He has always been a picky eater. He will eat about 1/2 of his feed n drag his bowl to one spot n almost completely bury it. No matter where I put the bowl he takes it to the same spot and kicks dirt over it. Pisses me off because of wasted feed. I used to tell him about all the starving dogs in Africa and that I should send him over to Asia where they eat dogs but it is falling on deaf ears.  I did start feeding him 1/2 rations and that does save some of the feed. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211121/e29575d8d1f482b18a95f0fac952e8e2.jpg)


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Man he’s purdy Cajun. Beautiful head and ear. His color is pretty nice too. I’m sure though that he does it because he’s happy about being called yella.


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that's a nice cur dog ear Cajun...good looking dog...

Every dog that I've ever pinned beside my dog ranger has went out of there way to eat his crap until I changed over feeds. My old cur dog Karen will really only hunt and act right when it's just her and my dog ranger.  Shell sit there and look you in the eyes with a bay 100 yards away. Idk if she was trash broke too hard or what. She'll strike a hog and everything. I have a question does any notice that female dogs are complete bdjjvffb when it comes to other females. I swear my 7 month old is a killer she is crazy. Idk how to go around it.

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He sure looks good Cajun you get tired of him covering up his feed send him north I might have place here where he want do that lol

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The Cur dogs here you could not pen same sexes together, and I don't leave them "unattended" and loose in the trailer when I leave it, but I can haul them together and they never fuss in any way when on the ground to use, they are dealt with harshly about that from puppies on up or they very well may have been dog aggressive all the time. Most of them are bad about strange people at home, in the trailer, or on the truck if I am not there but once again if I turn them out to use they would run through 100 people and not even acknowledge them. When we get back to the truck probably better let me,  Lisa, or maybe Adam catch them. All that just goes with this strain of Cur Dogs. I got a fellow bit one time that we had turn us a couple of dogs loose I had tied in the trailer, while we were several hundred yards away.

The Plotts aren't cranky with strange dogs in the box, and except for a very young dog never pay strangers any attention except for maybe the first few times I haul them they may booger bark if a stranger approaches the truck, anyone can handle them in the woods or catch them at the truck.

Arkansas hunter.... I have all females and one male. They will only jump another male and never had issues within themselves. They will flat out eat another males arse for sniffing, and i think its because they have never been able to quarrel themselves.

 My lead dog probably the best dog Ive ever owned ate rocks like egg size. Ended up taking loosing because of it.

Rough curs,

I had a young dog once that a friend gave me. I had kennels with gravel floors then. At 6mos old the dog wasn’t actin right or eatin on day and I thought she may have an obstruction or her stomach flipped or something. Brought her to the vet and she was full of gravel. They had to do emergency surgery to clean her out. Cost me 2grand.

....at a year old I was starting her wp training and she just could not recover for few days after each training session. Brought her to the vet and did the necessary X-rays for ofa and pennhip and she ended up having severe djd. That was another grand.

Most expensive free dog I ever had lol

Old Man,

I have seen Mr. Owens son make posts about some of his dogs being the same way, must be something from way back in y’all’s blood but I sure like a dog like that. Way less chance of someone stealing them. I’ve had a few that were funny like that. My RCD punk is Ladner mixed with some bulldog blood and she is the same way. While hunting she is fine, and my regular hunting buddies can handle her around me. If I’m not there or if she’s at the house she will rip their hands off, lol. I got a good laugh from some of Jim Bob’s Facebook posts about Cooper not letting him in the truck


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The Cooper dog is a double grandson to a male I had some years ago, and prior to that they have lots of the same lineage. It started with a cross of Bob's dad's female and Ricky Driver's dog, there was of course more good dogs and [people back behind them as well.

Yessir, I’ve read just about all the info I could find on the dogs you guys have bred. They sound like a great line and I love reading up on cur dog history and breeding.


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I believe I have hauled her in the dog box before with no problems but I definitely think it wouldn't hurt for her to get her eye dotted by another female one day but I ain't gonna push it. Yeah Austeous pretty neat having all this info at our finger tips and people that share the same passion.

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My old dog crank turns his head to the side and smiles at me
All my dogs and buddies from the same line pick up their left front paw  every time someone walks out to their pens or gets near them in the truck/buggy


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