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1  HOG & DOGS / VIDEOS ON HOGS / Re: How many jagdterriers does it take to hold a 300 plus pound boar? on: June 20, 2014, 10:02:27 am
Since this hunt the state wildlife agency backed off making killing them mandatory.  Now the issue ears tags to take them out alive to confinement.  Program started 3 yrs ago.  Be sure its still allowed.
2  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Why are so many Parker dogs timid? on: September 05, 2013, 08:21:55 am
I like a man-shy skiddish dog.  It has nothing to do with their hunting drive and has no bearing on their fear of a bad hog.  I like them because no one can steal them or pick them up in the woods but the owner.  I had some cur dogs years ago like that and they were great.   I bred  a cur to a top Parker dog, "Rowdy" and I noticed these were all but one of five a bit man-shy or kennel shy.  However, they burned up the woods.  I bred same female to a plott hound and got no shy dogs.  I have hunted with pure Parkers , around 6-8 and none were shy, but none were boot-licking friendly to strangers either.  I think many top hog dog lines tend towards the shy business, and just need some extra attention and handling to get them over it, if that is what you want.   There are way too many very happy Parker dog owners out their to make one thing this small quirk matters.
3  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: got a little p.o.ed today on: February 28, 2013, 08:24:52 pm
Tusk , I don't think anyone in this thread condones shooting a dog for no reason. But , if you jump a fence you deserve a ticket for trespassing. No one has the right to cross on to property without permission.



Must be a lonely world.

In Texas, you cannot follow your dogs over the fence.  But in LA and CA you can.  Just leave weapons on your side of fence and go get dogs. 

But try it in daylight during deer season and you could get yourself anf dogs shot anywhere.
4  HOG & DOGS / HOG DOGS / Re: How many of y'all? on: February 28, 2013, 07:59:39 pm
Both

I use a firearm when hunting  alone and at 58 with diabetes and leukemia my system is a bit faded. and anemic  I think I owe it to my dogs to back them up with all the resources at my disposal.  I have seen the "no firearms" guys in tears rush up to me on my horse begging me to shoot that hog that just gutted both their catch dog and a bay dog.  

But I hunt more with my handcuffs and hobbles and leave the firearm in the buggy for back up most of the time if I am hunting in a team.  I do not want others shooting over my dogs, so I foregoth the gun and hunt as I would like ohers to hunt around me..  Besides, with almost 50 yrs of runnimg dogs on hogs I have seen far more top dogs killed by guns in hunts than by boars.

I would rather shoot one than get my catch dog and baydogs beat up in a catch lately.  Like horses only have so many gallops in them, likewise I believe catchdogs only have so many bad boar catches in them.  Last few years I save my catchdogs for catch and tie for radio tracking collar applications on research work and leave them at home for fun hunts with the younger crews.    But I started hunting as a pre-teen with just a pair of pittbulls wearing sheep bells for tracking wearing homemade leather cut vests as the only dogs in the hunt and there is something missing these days with all the store bought stuff , GPS tracking and variety of dog breeds we use.  That was bare knuckle hunting and we were as much a part of or even more of the hunt than the dogs.  We had to sneak through the woods for hours, no talking, wind in our faces, reading the dogs body postures before we cut em loose.  Most would quietly sneak and do as we did, crawl on our bellies, so the dogs did too.  When the dogs backed up and put slack in the leash, looked up at us, we knew they could smell and or hear hogs and it was time to cut em loose.  Maybe need to get back to that, it was a fever like nothing since.
5  HOG & DOGS / HOG DOGS / Re: 3 legged dog? on: February 28, 2013, 07:25:05 pm
x3
 
 I have seen a handfull of rear leg amputeed dogs that did fine.  Swim, run, bay.  I had one friend said the dog did better and wished he had known that years earlier so he could have had the leg removed back then!!  (maybe not all that funny)/


However, dogs that lose a front leg need to stay home on the porch.  They don't dodge and weave a bayed hog well and get caught.  They also have a terrible time swimming.
6  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Sellin stuff on Craigslist on: February 24, 2013, 12:23:03 pm
Are you sure the caller did not say he was the exiled Prince of of Nangoonia of Liberia and wanted the bumper shipper to Nigeria in exchange for a cerified check for $10 million?
7  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Dog Hauling on: February 24, 2013, 12:10:14 pm
x2 Cajun Pet Express is the best.   Others are pretty shaky.  You can screen what you get via USHIP.com and get good service there, but more variable.   

You can text, email or call David for a quote.   In general, expect to pay the carrier what it would cost you in diesel at $4/gal.   So you save on wear and tear, miles on your vehicle, motels, meals, and your time by using a shipper.  Typically, estimate 55 cents a mile for your vehicle costs (incl fuel) and figure out from there.  I would say 90% of the time it pays to use a shipper.   Cost can range from $150 t0 $350 (avg) to higher, depends on range.   David at Cajun Pet Express uses an airconditioned Mercedez diesel van with a back up generator and has hearing monitoring in route.  Others fall short IMO.
8  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Mr. Orval Roberts passes on - a great man on: February 22, 2013, 08:29:22 pm
The funeral





9  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Mr. Orval Roberts passes on - a great man on: February 22, 2013, 06:56:36 pm


Goatcher's Tigger, Mr. Orval and his Jeb
10  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Mr. Orval Roberts passes on - a great man on: February 22, 2013, 06:48:12 pm
sorry about the split post here, but I have not been on the forum in a while and see they no longer allow post-editing.  I had to post the first half as we are in major thunderstorms here and did not want to lose all my typing!
11  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Mr. Orval Roberts passes on - a great man on: February 22, 2013, 06:38:44 pm
from North Carolina.  This was his first plotthound, and we all thought he was crazy.   I was tasked with leading the plott in as she was not broke.  I believe the little dog's name was Gal.  The curs jumped a pack of hogs in back of Reggie's cattle farm in the swamp.  Orval did not have a tracking system then, he was still old schooling  it.  He has me cut Gal in, who was a bare pup.  The hogs scattered and curs as well and after a couple hours trickled back in one at a time from all directions.   Only missing in action was the new plotthound.  We searched for her well after dark and then I heard muffled barks from the banks of Castor Creek.  There we found Gal baying a shoat in a deep tunnel into the creek bank.  Gal was about all the way in the tunnel so we could not hear her most the time.  I pulled her out by her tail as it was all I could reach, and the hog rolled out into my lap where she caught it.   That dog was the beginning of the Orval Robert's Beacoup Plotthound legacy.

Later on he traveled to many states improving his lines, getting blood into his kennels from Grand Night Champion Sizzlin Heat for track speed and from Alabama Hammer for cold nose.   I had a fantastic gyp from what I call his "Generation 1" line, "Tigger" (see photo of red brindle with Orval and his blue male Jeb).   A half dozen times she stopped over 10 hogs in half a day and she barked trail.  So much for the nay-sayers on open trailing hog dogs.  She clearly had the track speed from Heat.   Later on my son and I obtained 4 females from what I call the Robert's "Generation 2" line, much faster smaller cat-footed dogs of 30-40 pounds, looking more like running fox hounds or triggs in shape than plotts.  But FAST!.   We still have 3 of those, never bred them, all are double bred with Orval's blue dog Jeb as grandather on both sides.  Two are blues.  

Mr. Orval will be missed by scores of us and will go down in history as important to the plotthound breed as any man.
12  HOG & DOGS / GENERAL DISCUSSION / Mr. Orval Roberts passes on - a great man on: February 22, 2013, 06:09:55 pm
For those that did not know this Mr. Orval has passed away earlier this week.  His funeral was today in Columbia, LA.  http://www.riserfuneralhomes.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1973676&fh_id=11543

For the dog man, it was a send off we all would wish to have.  I hate funerals, but had to make this on so took off from work and drove in from Mississippi.  There I met my son Adam and Mike Fradella who drove up independently from south Louisiana.  Adam and I still have Orval's plotts in our packs.  Orval was laid to rest in an open casket looking great, complete with overalls and plaid shirt like he was ready to hit the woods.  Beside him were hunting dogs collar, dog leash and even hog tie-up twine that he liked to use.  The preacher has hunted hogs with Mr. Orval and really hit home  with what he was all about.  Outside the funeral home one hunter had his hog dogs in vests and radio collars atop his dog box tribute to the legend laying inside.  I will post photo of that rig here.  All the seats in the funeral home were filled and the entry way was packed with standing friends.

As I sat in the ceremony thinking of my old friend it was hard to hold back the tears.  The preacher mentioned how Mr. Orval had him one time sit with him on the front porch of the "hunting cabin" his son's Donnie and Kim built for him drinking coffee.  I too have spent many an hour on that same porch and the one years ago attached to the old hunting lodge not far away, drinking Mr. Orval's famous coffee and hand-made biscuits.  One such event , Orval sat beside me rocked in our chairs and he asked me most sincerely , "Bud, tell me the truth now, I know you are are a wildlife biologist and all but you ever been a poachin?"  Orval had a twist to his north Louisiana dialect, so I was not certain what he meant by what I heard as "Poachin" (e.g., poaching).  Well in full respect to a man who was 17 years my senior, I confessed as a young man that in my mis-spent youth I had indeed taken a buck out of season and used to market hunt boar meat for sales to mexican labor camps.  After my long winded confession of my wildlife sins, Mr. Orval touched my arm and said its OK, now listen to what I have to tell you.  I looked into his eyes and saw a big tear roll down his cheek while in a very conflicting way h e was fighting back a grin from ear to ear.....   He then says, "Let me tell you Bud," as he began rocking very vigorously back and forth in his chair on that old camp porch, " We be PORCH-IN now, we be porch-in now! Ha! ha! ha! ha!    ---  I felt truly the fool.

On another occasion, one of the last few hunts we made with our plotts, I asked Mr. Orval why he no longer carried a catch-dog to the hunt.  He says, "Bud, you need to understand that in this phase of my life, my hog hunting is a lot like my womanizing....."  Mr. Orval was in his early 80's at the time.  "I now hunt like I romance, I love chasing them all day long, but no sense a man my age catch either one.  So need to own and carry a catch-dog in the hunt."   
 Grin

I first met Mr. Orval in the early 80's in Tennessee at the Wildboar Conservation Association meeting.  We became fast friends.   In the early years we all had curs.  He had some of the classic ones, the best in Sadie and Kate.  One day he had me come to hunt and he produces a little 40 pounder saddle back brindle plotthound female he just brought
13  THE CLASSIFIEDS / THE DOG TRADE / Jagdterrier on: September 04, 2012, 01:29:55 pm



UKC
14  THE CLASSIFIEDS / THE DOG TRADE / Dog gone on: September 04, 2012, 01:24:30 pm
Tks
15  THE CLASSIFIEDS / CLASSIFIED ADS / Horses on: September 04, 2012, 01:08:15 pm
Two
16  HOG & DOGS / DOGS ON HOGS / Re: Man and hog stabbed in the hood! Dfw and make em squeal (pics added) on: August 02, 2011, 07:33:39 pm
Horrific story!  I don't let em take guns, now have to take the knives away too!!! 

Absolutely amazing.  I am still in shock.  Incredulous.

Wish you well and hope for a full recovery........
17  HOG & DOGS / DOGS ON HOGS / Re: 07-30-11 Hunt on: August 02, 2011, 07:29:28 pm
Marvin

Its tough for us old guys to hunt with them young bucks.  Keeping up is the issue.  What I mean is I get tired of looking over my shoulder wondering if they are keeping up with me.  I really hate it when they get lost in the dark and us old giuys have to go fetch em, even tie a dog lead to em all a blubberin cryin and such and lead em in the dark to safety.  They just don't make hog hunters like they used to!  LOL!!!!    Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
18  HOG & DOGS / DOGS ON HOGS / Squirt (jadgterrier) strikes another boar on: July 30, 2011, 03:59:35 pm
http://wildlifeworkingdogs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=huntsstory&thread=143&page=1
19  HOG & DOGS / HOG DOGS / Removing Ticks - Soap and Cottom balls on: July 28, 2011, 08:09:31 am
http://wildlifeworkingdogs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=healthmaint&thread=139
20  HOG & DOGS / HOG DOGS / Re: Bulldogs up to no good on: July 06, 2011, 10:09:06 am
Bump

In 1977 I took my lead strike dog, a leopard cur and my catch dog to Alaska.  The cur bayed a porcupine and my catchdog looked worse than your dog but not by much.  By the time we crawled through the alders to get to her, the big huge porcupine, nearly the size of the 60 pound pitt, was in two halves.  She went clean through it like a chainsaw.  

We spent hours pulling quills, some even pinned her jaws together and sewed her lips shut.  Some were so far back in her throat we could not get to them.  Some were really long quills, 4-5" as it was a large animal.

The local vet in Alaska said to me, " The will migrate around in her body for years.  We cannot surgically remove them all, as they do not show up on X-rays as they are protein, keratin, etc.. so we cannot know where to find them.  They may do her no harm.  Or they could migrate to her spine, heart, brain, or other key organ and kill her.  She may live two days, two months, or two years before they kill her."

The dog lived for another 7 years to die of natural causes.

These are the two dogs that stirred up all the trouble in photo link below.  I was afraid they were on a brown bear!  Later in the summer I was fishing near the same place and the cur bayed a huge brown bear that came for our fish.  I was afraid the bear would kill the dog as those bears are faster than you think.  But the cur, Cyrus, was a veteran hog dog and made that bear sit down and eventually run off.  No contest.  Bear was freaked out by the dog.  Maybe it was the blue eyes?  LOL!

http://www.goatcherwildlife.com/cyrus_n_dixie.jpg
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