Dogs been sorry the last 2 times or so we’ve used them. Took lizzo other night middle of the week with a buddy right down the county road at sunset. Sitting 250 yards from a feeder behind a lady’s house she been seeing a boar hog or 2 every night. Sure enough 5 minutes before last light, I thought I saw 2 hogs break the brush line(have a thermal borrowed from a buddy) a ways a part but only ever seen one after that. He got to feeder as I vested lizzo. I let my buddy keep the thermal at the truck and told him to watch the hog. If that hog goes to leave he is to turn my running lights back on on my truck.
Stalk all the way to him at 30 maybe 40 yards I’d say. It’s dark now though. I can just see his outline in under this feeder in a pretty oak Mott. He figures us out about the time she is locked on him and I send her. She got to him fairly quick and last I could see through the grass she appeared to be in his hip pocket. Knowing what she does I’m thinking she tried to ham that hog to spin it and he was right at the fence and he fenced her. I was told it’s a notorious thing with greyhounds and they just innately suck crossing fences or gates, they can’t really swim and don’t really jump.
Then we went to Tim’s cattle co. And we harrass these hogs pretty good. A lot of people around there do with different means. But dogs acted like they couldn’t smell at 10 when we started. Finally spoon and king busted out of the creek and pulled a big 3/4 circle back in to our face. where I had just been saying I was waiting on them to bay. Send some help and it’s a group in a bunch of rosehedge. We end up with a big nothing I think off of that. We had spoon and his brother pilgrim and Tim’s tiny gyp bayed finally after like 2 hours then the time I go to walk in there I hear a bunch of distant gun shots, maybe next pasture over across the road. And then someone burps a first responder siren on the county road. Dogs come out. I don’t know what the deal was there. Don’t think it was related but I was definitely saying let’s pick up and reset.
Jumped just down the road to some country his uncle put together and kinda has some hog proofing done. I was pretty sure there was no hogs inside the fence and there were some close outside after 2 cast on bottom end. came back to the middle to some fresh bulldozed trailed and send em again and they find a cheap 100 lb sow to run around in a circle and catch. Went back to the pens and swapped some of Tim’s dogs around. Go back to a part of the place we first started on we didn’t hit. Artesian well makes a flooded mess in some red clay and rose hedge. Sent a few, king struck. It’s tough seeing a hog in that stuff. Sent spoon as he was on the box catching his breath. Then dogs played tennis across fm 2434 with a hog(s) for 30 minutes before I had to stop traffic because spoon was about to get hit. Rest of them dogs come back into our side. Roll a big left hand, go 500 yards farther west and kick across 2434 again. Just like anne and Misty did last time and they had the group bayed at the end. They go to same place same spot and tree. We hit the county road and go to ask permission to go to them. We get it and they appear to get beat to the same netwire we were just in by the time we get around to them, and pilgrim who we left trailing behind Tim’s pens has been picked up and hauled to some out of towners family Easter.
Cut our losses after that and called it a day after we retrieved pilgrim. Summer is all but here And it is dang dry already.
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