The Rathke Reno dog seems to show up on a lot of yellow dogs down here in Fl. Reno was bred to a dog off the Adam's ranch to make cowboy.

I've never hunted with Full Rathke dogs. Ive hunted quite a few with Reno blood, including Newt.  My hunting buddy has a yellow female that goes back to Reno several times and she is a nice dog.

Just like every line of dog. The ones hunted and hunted hard, make nice dogs. The others dont.

I was thinking that but wasn’t sure how the newt dog went back to rathke


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I don’t have any experience with them, but remember a guy that use to be on here that went by Judd I believe and he hunted those dogs with really good success.


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People don’t believe me when I tell them that they could solve a lot of running by using one bay dog. They can’t seem to wrap their heads around it. Silent or not. My dogs are wide open and I still can bay the running hogs as long as there is just one.


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Slim I’ll keep that in mind. I really wished I’d kept trying as I lost including her and my other 2 older strike dogs since March. I’m starting all over basically. It’s been a rough go here lately.


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There is a recent post about this. My best gyp cut hers back in March. Took her to 2 vets both said it wasn’t worth trying and I really wish I would’ve found somebody to work on it anyways. Good luck with your gyp.


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Cajun I just listened to you on the podcast. I really enjoyed it.


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I made the same cross 11-12 yrs ago. She was a line bred cur dog and a really good one to a championed out field trial dog with lots of go. She had 10 pups. I kept every pup for 7 months. I culled 2 and  the rest made extremely good dogs. 5 were straight catch so I sent them to someone that preferred that style and I kept 3 that were loose. Best cross I’ve seen. Should have  made it again. All the dogs had lots of hunt. I’ve been thinking real hard on making a cross with walker/gsp.


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You’ll have your hands full next time. Good hog sir


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A lot of guys don’t understand the thought process behind catching a bad hog like that, but when you do throw him, it’ll be a story worth telling!

Can you explain a little what you mean, cause I’m probably one of those guys who don’t understand lol.


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Not speaking on Bens behalf but what I think he means is if the same strategy and approach keep yielding the same unsuccessful results then it’s time to go back to the drawing board and rethink things unless you just want to keep losing dogs, hogs like him have already learned how things work when the dogs show up and has learned to use the strength of pack mentality to his advantage, in numbers dogs will feel more confident and it leads to over confidence, a bad hog will most times pick out whichever aggressor is giving him the most bother and zero in on it or has learned where he can go to stand his ground and make his fight to his advantage, to each his own but it makes me chuckle when I hear it see where people are against cutting game off at crossings and such as that, I 1000% agree with catching one fair and square, everyone has different definitions, mine is not using a pack of running catch dogs to lug one down to the point the laws of physics take over and he’s just out numbered or using a gun to cripple one to slow it down, I’m not perfect and have done both but don’t make it a practice or habit, but cutting one off at a crossing isn’t “cheating”, I look at it as a challenge and every time I get defeated I also learn more about hogs like yours, they expose their patterns and routes over time, thus “outsmarting” his opponent, learn to use that against him, if you know where his route throw a wrench in his gears, you’ll most likely surprise him and throw him out of routine, break his pattern and routine and get him out of his element he’ll have to rethink his strategy on the fly and that’s when they slip up, in your case it sounds more like 2 dependable loose baying dogs would make him hold bay, and a pair of catchdogs sent in from complete opposite sides of the bay from one another and have a rougher bay dog or 2 sent in if needed behind the catch dogs in case he breaks, even then that approach may not work and after several times of trying to catch him one way and no results time to change up strategy again, it’s these kinda hogs I LOVE, to me numbers don’t mean anything compared out smarting wise old boars like him, I’m about the challenge and feel more accomplished once I’ve won after being defeated time and again, than I do piling up the sows and shoats, everyone gets different joys out of different aspects of the hunt and that’s just mine...

I have only hunted him with 2 loose bay dogs. Both cur dogs that I’ve lost to him have only been cut a handful of times in their entire lives. One was 10 another 5.  They have been on plenty of bad hogs in the course of their lives. I’m not setting my dogs up for failure. I’ve got way to much blood sweat and tears involved in them to send them into certain death.


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A lot of guys don’t understand the thought process behind catching a bad hog like that, but when you do throw him, it’ll be a story worth telling!

Can you explain a little what you mean, cause I’m probably one of those guys who don’t understand lol.


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This hog hasn’t been caught yet, but he has depleted my pack 3 times. The first time I got on him he killed one of my bulldogs and completly wrecked my other, dogs still had him bayed so I called another boy and he brought another bulldog and we sent him and he got beat up really bad. The second time we got on him, he took the cur dogs to a nasty canyon and completly tore them to peices killing one, I never got to send the bulldogs. I got on him again 2 weeks ago Sunday and it was the same song and dance and got my best dog killed in the same spot. He definitely knows how to handle the dogs.  He hangs out in the same place year round and when the dogs get on him he runs the same route to the same place and crosses a dirt road so I could set up and wait for him there but  I really want to catch him fair and square.


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I wonder if it’s too late to try and do something with mine. It happened March 17


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I have heard of a dog that got his repaired after 6 weeks, don't have any details but I think he made a good recovery

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I wouldn’t know where to even start. The 2 vets around me turned it down the day after it happened.


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I wonder if it’s too late to try and do something with mine. It happened March 17


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My best dog cut hers 4weeks ago and I took her to 2 vets and both said I would have been wasting my money. She is basically ruined now. But she is 12 and only has one lung so her career was about up anyways.


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Good point, a dog food shortage never crossed my mind.

I guess we can start feeding pork if it comes down to it.

Shoot mr. Mike mine will starve you death if they have to eat the pork they catch lol.


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Good hunt mr. Mike


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Good hunt.


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Can’t beat that sir


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Good hunt sir


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Good hunt


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