breaking old dog off skunk

[Monteria]

My partners lead dog, the best dog we own between us, is a skunk killing fool. He will strike a hog minutes after killing a skunk so we just consider it a cost of doing business.

My little red dog struck his first skunk on the Babes vs. Bars hunt. My tool box, and his collar still stink. If he ends up being a consistent strike dog and still kills skunks, I'll likely just put up with it. If he turns out a help dog and still kills skunks, he will be a goner.

Steve

[coach]

My Uncle used to have this spray he would put in their nose think it was skunk musk, or something like that. It would irritate them to the point that they hated that smell and would not want to track it. I would always use a heavy hand and mesquite tree worked 99%.

But you will always have one that would screw up the curve or percentages for that one I would drive and find a skunk for him to kill on the county road then we would go hunt. LOL

[slimpickins]

  The Circle C "stank wagon".

[Mike]

I think Mike's Tweety dogs skunk problem can be traced back to her owner.  You see, Mike's a little trashy himself. Skunks and snakes are his problem...but he's struck enough hogs that we keep him around

She took after me well... cause I don't get sprayed either!

[MAV]

this makes me feel better we just sold a really nice young strike dog and the man brought her back because she killed a skunk. she is a pig finding fool and never killed a skunk while we had her but the first time out with the new owner she did and he wasnt happy.

[walkerchaser85]

I read on TPWD that skunks are the number two rabies carrier in texas just behind bats. We hunt a place in goliad that is over run with skunks, its not rare to see 20 in a night so we always end up with someone trashing and stinkin the lot of us for a hour and a half drive home. I hunt out of a suv so we cant do anything but role the windows down, it seems to me every property has a different trash issues, if its not skunks its javalina, if its not javalina its a armadillo, if its not a armadillo its a coon ,hunting south texas is a dog trainers nightmare you have to stay on them every hunt but i wouldnt change one hunt with my dogs. Some of us just have to learn the hard way.

[Hogboy]

Tweety's sister Ruby has the same addiction.

[Circle C]

Ron,

    Do you have a picture of Ruby?  Also, do you know anything about her pedigree?  Tweety has been a dead end for me with regards to lineage.

[buddybegone]

well just bring that jar head to me if you don't want him running skunks. you hunted are started any the pups out of rookie yet? that litter of bmc's look awful good that was ahead of them. you hunting chula yet? how's old nacho?

[Hogboy]

I don't have one that I know of, but I can try and get one.  She is alot smaller than Tweety and has a little bit of blue and red in her coat. 

As far as lineage, what you got from Krystal would be all I know.  The genleman that Mike H. got them from bred them as cow dogs.  But he gave them to Mike because they would not work on cows, but would "bay the hair off a hog".

Ruby wont range as far as Tweety by herself......but they will run stride for stride together.  I think Ruby is a little grittier.   

[Circle C]

Thanks Ron,

    I'll see if Hilscher can come up with the lineage, or at least a contact # for the man that bred them.

[uglydog]

Hilscher got dogs from Robert Poppy, but Poppy did not breed those dogs, they were young when he got them and only gave them "a" chance to bay, before sending Tweety to Hilscher. two days later Hilscher dumped Tweety out of trailer on the hunt as scared pupppy that did not know  him or any of us, much less what a hog was, and she would not come to anybody. We hunted Watterson that night and got on a real good boar in the creek and Tweety was in on the boar when we turned the catch dog loose, got two smaller hogs the same night. Got back to the trucks and took atleast 20 minutes to even catch her to load her. She has been hunting ever since.

I have tried to get Poppy to give me more info on them pups. Ruby same thing came along about a month later.

Ruby is the Skunk QUEEN! I counted five bayed & sprayed skunk in one hunt on her, and I think she likes electricity because she will keep right on doing it. 
 

[rebelsway1]

hell i'll give you 500 for that skunk dog

[ktchemwcurs]

Hey we fixed him buddy, we just painted a stripe down all the hogs in Mat. Co. so he couldn't tell the difference. He didn't have any problem this past weekend. The ony problem I had is finding him. He is going from a medium range dog to a AT&T you have to call somebody to find him. I have got to get me a Garmin! You and Scooter need to let me have yours since you got that good Bloodline from me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LMAO