I've seen lots of people come and go over the years. If some of you don't understand what I'm talking about...stay in the sport long enough, raise your own dogs and someday trust me you will. There's no greater satisfaction than going to the woods and catching hogs with dogs you've raised, but there's no greater disappointment than loosing those you've put so much time into.
Ahh...those things that make the mind ponder.
Bryant, I feel your Frustration, I am kinda leaning on that point. I have been keeping 30 dogs for the past 10 years. When places to hunt are hard to find, the feed is expensive, the flea control is ridiculous, the FRICKEN laws about housing, caring and breeding our dogs are against us, when you got to awake up and realize is todays struggle and is the enjoyment out weight the Grief? I know the heat, plays a role in this too. Will we have to hire a lawyer this because I want to breed two litters this year? will I have a place to hunt them after raises them for a year and all that?
Several of the dogs are old, a couple can't even hunt, got a few pups coming up, but Its just hard to think about the future of the hunting with the dogs in general and where its gong.
x2...we are losing ground every year in more ways than one...
