Message #441125

[Blake F]

My dogs see me once a day, for about 10 minutes while I feed. If they come out of their kennel, it is because I am cleaning the kennel (so they go on a chain) or because we are loading up to hunt.

My young dogs are hard to catch in the woods (if I spent more time with them they probably wouldnt be this way); my older dogs, well depending on the dog, will either jump in the truck when called (they like to hood) or will come to me when I call them. When I drop my ground dogs, they run and run and run until I tell them to come back so we can go....I dont call my dogs off of hogs, just never had to, and frankly dont know that I will be able to or will ever want to....if we are away from the truck and need to get the dogs back to where we are supposed to be, then I will put a lead on them. My dogs might follow me without a lead, but only until they smell a hog, then another race is on. So I lead them if I dont want them hunting.

It is very interesting all the different responses to this question. I had always heard "yard dogs" or "kid dogs" wont get out and hunt, but this thread proved me wrong!!!!