It’s definitely gotten thick and I believe the ticks and fleas are going to be bad this year. I’ve seen several ticks already myself. I’m glad you had a good hunt. It sure sounds like the dogs are turning the crank. My catchdog gyp just had a dozen pups. I’m glad she’ll be weaning them before it gets too awful hot.


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This guy is a hog hunter for sure, but even if he couldn’t catch one, he can sure raise some good looking, healthy pups.


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Sounds like a good hunt. Lizzo looks like she was ready for some rest after a busy day at the office.


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I wish I had tried harder to round up some of the Doughbelly stuff. I was around a few of them and I really liked most of them. I can really only think of one that I didn’t care for. The issues I saw in him very well could’ve been man made. Most of those dogs had some size and a whole bunch of them were salty. If I remember correctly, Johnny said that Curly and them would usually bay until they told them to catch and then whatever it was they were baying, beef or pork, was caught.


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Levi reminds me a lot of the dogs that Jaime Woodard and Johnny Morton had for a long time. They were dual purpose dogs. Johnny had a male named Curly that was heck of a dog and Jaime had a littermate brother that was also super nice according to Johnny. Johnny said he thought Jaime’s might have been a shade better. I had a dog from Johnny that was out of his old Betty female bred back to  Doughbelly Quiney’s last old dog named Dummy. My dog was Johnny’s pick of the litter but he liked Johnny’s chickens as much as Johnny so at about a year old Johnny called and told me if I wanted him
to come get him because he wasn’t going to see tomorrow. Man he was an outstanding dog. It was funny because his name was Clyde which was what my old dog at the time was called. So when you said Clyde around the house you got double the attention. It was kinda like when I was growing up. If momma said Thomas, daddy and I both paid attention. We always knew which one of us she was addressing though by her tone. Seemed like my daddy just couldn’t act right, lol. My original Clyde dog was the dog that I based the dogs I have now off of.


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The Tracker dogs daddy was Sketch to one of the Woodard’s dogs?


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Good videos


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That’s a lot pork y’all looked at in a couple of hunts. Rallies like that big one can be intimidating to some dogs. That’s a lot of loud all one time. Glad to hear Amber is doing good sounds like.


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Awesome catch right there!

I believe he’s taking applications for anyone that wants their dogs taught to bay the hogs on the edge of the road for easy accessibility. Probably limited spots so don’t waste time getting them turned in.


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That’s impressive Cajun. I do think some dogs have better noses than others and then I think there are dogs that can smell colder tracks but they aren’t interested in working them out. I’ve dropped Outlaw and Ava on a colder track together and know for sure they both smelled it. He continued to grub while she left and hunted out the country south of us. When she ways content that there wasn’t something laid up down there she came back and started grubbing too but Iike I say, it wasn’t her first want to.

Cajunl, how do those dogs do when you take them to motorcycle rallies? I mean it doesn’t spoil them to put them right in amongst all those “hoggs” without having to work for them? Lol I know corny joke. Seriously though, do you do that because you want to spend the time with them or for the purpose of socializing them?


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Cajun do you have any idea of about how cold the coldest trail your plotts have worked up was? Another question I’ve wondered about with the open dogs is do they pick their heads up when the track gets hotter or do they typically keep it down. I would assume that it’s a dog to dog basis, meaning some stay low and some pick their heads up. Do the heads up type give as much mouth and is there a difference in their tracking speed?

Make-‘em-squeel I ask you the same question about yours and your partners dogs?

No right or wrong answers nor trying to start anything. I have wondered this a lot about different breeds and crosses. Matter of fact one of my hunting buddies and I were just talking about this very thing yesterday with our dogs. I have seen hogs passing through an area in the evening and then return to home from a different direction, kinda made a big loop. I put out where I saw them the evening before and the dogs took the track and got bayed a half mile away. Kerry told me once that he put Raylynn’s brother Amos out on a hog track that the game camera showed he came through at a certain time. I’m pretty sure he told me it was 12 hours from the time the hog went through to the time he put him on the track and he took it about a mile in like 10-15 minutes and bayed the hog in his pajamas. Now those numbers could be off either way a tad but that’s what I was told. I thought that was pretty impressive personally. I have seen my dogs wind from .92-1.2 numerous times and go straight from point A to point B like somebody told them which bush they were under to get bayed. I understand the scent cone and things, but from that distance, it impresses me to see. My dogs are dead silent but a few will what I call squeal behind a runner if they can see it. If it manages to get ahead or out of sight they will quit giving any mouth until they bay again.


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I can definitely see advantages to the pointers. It almost always comes down to preference. The plott guys usually want to hear the mouth so that’s one incentive for having them or using them for crossing. I would say another is consistency. The pointers that work are nice but there are a lot of them that won’t take to hogs and there are a lot that will but won’t reproduce puppies that consistently do. You may have half a litter that will and half that won’t. Some people can afford to keep a whole litter to weed through them but most can’t afford it or don’t have the room for it. I’ve also seen a few pointers that would take to hogs but literally not bark, just stare and more or less point. It’s hard to always know they’ve located and even harder to get other dogs to them to bay. So one breed can be really loud and the other silent to the extreme. Both breeds have noses and motors.  I see the pluses and the minuses of each. I’d say hog dogs are probably the most diverse group of dogs out there simply because there are so many styles and methods to hunt and it just boils down to individual preferences. I don’t think there’s a right or a wrong just what makes the person buying the feed happy. Ernie definitely has found a niche. I was always fond of his old cat males looks. I thought he was a pretty rascal.


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Yes sir I thought so. The ones I’ve  seen were nice looking dogs.


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Cajun I won’t lie, those dogs would probably have have won my heart. I can’t do anything but respect that mind set. That “you aren’t going to beat me” mindset is so awesome. It’s truly the mindset I’ve tried to raise my kids to have. This is a little off course but kinda related. When I was a senior in high school, I lived next door to my cousins. They had a buddy come visit that was what I would call fast in a foot race. Competitive natures got the better of us and we ended lining up in the road to race. He beat me several times in a row but nearly a photo type finish every time. I was doing any and everything to gain an advantage. I ended up barefooted before it was over. He wanted to quit but I wouldn’t concede and just kept pushing buttons to make him keep running. Finally, my bottom was either more than his or he gave up, either way I won. I walked up to the house and walking down the sidewalk I noticed my feet burning more than they should’ve. I looked back and I was leaving bloody foot prints. The whole skin of the soles of my feet were just flopping. I thought dang this smarts but it sure was satisfying.


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We’d probably be cut and released if they found we were cutting hogs and releasing them. We have such numbers that it’s not in our favor to release them. Where we are, every hog needs to be taken out.


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Is Ernie the one with the bird/cat dogs?


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Sounds like a lot of traveling for those young dogs and it sounds like they were working hard for you. Glad you were able to catch hogs for the guided deal.


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Dragging hogs will make them grow faster than anything there is. Never guess a hogs a weight before you drag it because he’s going to weigh a lot more by the time you get him untied!


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That’s a ton of work but man if you had bought all of that at store…..


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Lol I’m just picking bud. I don’t think any of us want to be in the wardens sights.


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