around here its damned if you do damned if you dont
I think that applies everywhere. I think it's a personal decision made by the the owner of the dog, and not to be questioned by others. I''ve been on both sides of the vest or no vest issue with regard to bay and catch dogs. These days I do what works for me, and let others do what works for them.
I don't like hearing the implications that if someone does not vest their dog, then they must not care about the dog...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't AS IN I feel that if I stuck a vest on my dog I feel like he would get it snagged in a barbed wire fence. I only own one professionaly made collar and somehow my goofus dog Gator got snagged on guacho and twisted it up something bad. Took me like 2 hours to find him. On the other hand he's not even a good hog dog but he's got the scars to prove a vest should be on Christmas list, lol.
I quoted your post to pick on you about yer dogs scrotum getting poked, just messin witcha, never said a thing about folks not caring about their dogs. Sorry if it sounded that way.
How does the keep from getting weighed down with moisture and to those who use vests, do you run the short vests in summer time hunts, or does it matter?
