Says these bugs live in woods by woodpiles and coons possums and armadillo are vectors. Heck I live way back in woods and got a firewood stand right by the dog run I stomped the buy yesterday.

This place seem to be overrun lol

Good luck with em.

One thing good, since it on my mind. Is if they live past birth to 3 months the dam ain’t have the Chagas.

On my mind because yesterday I was rinsing my dog waters and seen a bug, juvenile kissing bug by my oldest male house, bout the size of a stinkbug. I stopped it while filling water and it was full of blood.

Then went down rabbit hole and read if females have chagas they pass it in on and the litter usually dies quick or within 3 months

These kissing bugs are a bad thing.

I only git one female but I’ll definitely get her tested for chagas at lsu vet school before I’ll attempt to breed her if I ever want too.

If they work as good as them two look then they gonna be real nice!

And so it goes young man…

Ain’t never easy, no matter how good or sorry they are you gonna put em in the ground one day.

Until the day you have a set that sees you into the ground.
 
Thing about life is nothing gets out alive.

Glad she made you some great memories and left you some progeny to remind you…

Yes, a mammal can contract Chagas disease from kissing bugs (triatomine bugs) by consuming water or food contaminated with the insect's feces, which contain the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. While the most common route is the feces entering a bite wound or mucous membrane, ingestion of infected feces or the bug itself is a recognized, albeit less common, transmission route.


….from AI

Nah, they dedicate while they feed on a blood meal and if the poop consequently smeared into the wound the t-cruisi parasite enters the bloodstream. That is the vector by which a mammal contracts chagas.

That’s why they are called kissing bugs. The like ti bite where the skin is thin and vessels are closer to the surface. Around the lips or eyes while the victim sleeps

Them kissing bugs are getting bad around here too (south Louisiana)

Bout three years ago I found one in my bedroom when I was bout to get in bed. It was peaking out of a crack waitn for me to turn out the lights. I killed it and that put them on my radar and freaked me out!

I have found two more in the house since then and a couple on the porch.

Me and my son had one the dogs on porch last summer midday. We had been letting him run that morning while doing stuff around the yard and then let him on porch and he was layed out tired my and chap was sitn in chairs he was between us sleeping and I seen a big giant one crawling away from him slowly and walking funny. I jumped up and stomped on it and it popped like a full tick. It was slap full of fresh blood.
I couldn’t believe how much blood that thing had in it.
This is midday mind you. They say they are mostly nocturnal…

We been seeing a lot at the prison I work at as well…

Bout 3 o’clock pm one day last fall one my trustees come back on the tractor. And got off and we were talking. I seen a big colorful one on his shoulder and took a swipe at it but it was moving fast and I missed so we were dancing a find tryn find it on him then he seen it had jumped on me and he knocked it off anf and stomped it. I had been telling them to be in lookout. For em cuase them are dangerous and invading from Mexico.

All other trustees that work for me came out and I was showing them what they look like. Since then we have found quite a few creeping around the drop where I work.

They found a few in the dorms as well.

These things freak me out!

Our local news did a thing on them last year saying how prevalent they are becoming.
I watched a thing on YouTube said they are the most dangerous bug in North America.
The parasite then can carry, t-cruisi, kills the the second most people worldwide harbored by bugs,only second to mosquitoes.

You don’t know you have it til it really messes you up. Hell I’m thinking me and all my dogs have lol

It’s always tough pill with the good ones.

I’ve enjoyed following y’all’s adventures thru the years slim. She sure made you proud and I’m sure a better man. A good dog has a knack of doing that to folks.

Sorry to hear this WOW! Sounds like a heck of a guy!

I check this site every day for over a decade now I believe. Though I no longer hunt with dogs it still was one of my biggest passions in life and those times made me the person I became and I believe helped me raise my children, now adults, into the great youngsters they are.

I too look forward to WOW’s trip every year.
 
And the rest of you kicking off the hunting stories.

I don’t  comment much because I simply have little input. But rest assured I read and enjoy!

Hey man, she’s your dog, you feed her, the only opinion that matter is yours. If she makes you happy and doesn’t piss you off then that’s all that matters. I used to get caught up critiquing other folks dogs and taking their criticism of mine to heart. Life is short for us humans and way shorter for our dogs. If the dog makes you and your family happy then that is the only thing that matters. Nobody feeds her but you. And only one she has to prove anything to is you. She sounds like a cool little dog

Always hard to know what pups gonna be from pics or even early actions, but that one with the white blaze on its nose stands out to me, but something tells me the one in the back with its tail up over its back in the second pick is gonna be pretty rough lol

Those are some stout looking pups and look like they got some attitude to go along with it.

That’s one heck of a dog!

Merry Christmas!

Nice to see you guys posting again…

I am looking for a female American Bulldog that carries heavy old school Hines pedigree.

Pup or gyp….

Brit Garcia, are you still breeding?

Pm me folk’s Breeding primarily this blood.

Man, I’m just looking at some of the news from last 24hours on YouTube which is how I get news because I don’t own a tv.  I’m seeing what has happened and the stories are heartbreaking. My heart goes out to the families impacted and still searching. What a tragedy!

Thanks WOW

If anyone has a direct line to him let him know I’m reaching out. It’s OB from back in the day

Is Gary fuller still on here?

Just reaching out…

Anyone know or better yet Gary if you still check in please pm me.