Message #211201

[Hog Dog Mike]

A guy I hunt with some gave me a dog a few years ago. It was like a giant yella BMC and must have weighed 100 pounds. When I got him he was skinny and I got him fed up and wormed.

I don't know how to describe it but I didn't like the look in his eye. Always heard that the eye is the window to the soul. This dog was not agressive at all to a hog and did not find his own hog that much.

The first thing you know he got to snapping at people if they got close to his kennel. I thought he might just be protective. One morning I was going to reach in the kennel and give him a pat and he nearly got my hand. It would have been easy to loose some fingers on that deal.

I just walked into the house and got my squirrel rifle and took care of the problem. When he knew the jig was up he looked at me from his dog house and growled when I walked up to the kennel.

A guy I hunt with now has got a dog that started fighting this year. In fact his son got bit by this dog trying to break up a fight about a month ago. He could be a great dog except for the fighting.