why is everyone selling out these days

[Hutch33]

Sometimes I think people overwhelm themselves as well.  We've seen a lot of people start out buying every dog they can get there hands on and it becomes to much for them.  This is not just a weekend sport.... Dogs are a lot of work.  Its not like a feeder you can just let run out of corn or a kayak you just hang in the garage when you aren't using it, dogs are an everyday thing.  Plus it's summertime, people start cutting back and you see that every year.

[warrent423]

For most it is just a passing "fad" or sport. For those of us who were born into it, it is and will always continue to be, a way of life I will continue to feed a decent pair of rough, stock bred cur dogs as long as the good Lord allows me to either walk or ride behind them. No need to have to feed 27 dogs to catch hogs.

[Hutch33]

No need to have to feed 27 dogs to catch hogs.

X2!!

[Goose87]

Most folks go hunting with someone and get that "rush" everybody talks about, then next thing you know they got 20 dogs and haven't even got a place to hunt yet, nothing chaps me up more than someone calling wanting to go hunting bc "they need to let their dogs run with experienced dogs" yea I always have a young prospect to hunt and so does my partner and being working men with families it's hard to find the time to train our own. Or the other category is they want to go then next thing you know they've rounded up every bodies culls around and expect for you to call them every time you go. I guess because i was born into a dog hunting family it's just second nature to me, never once in my 27 yrs have I ever not had a hound to feed whether it was mine or my dads.

A lot of my old friends I don't see anymore bc of this sick addiction I have to this. Any spare time I have away from work and family is spent either thinking about a dog or training a dog if I'm not hunting. Like Chris H said 98% of my friends are dog or cow folks and I've supposedly missed out on the good times chasing a dog.

[bignasty]

like a -fly by night lawn service,here today gone tomarow.most are copy cats,story tellers,ask too many questions,scared of the dark get lost 100 yards into the woods.try to buy there way in,cry like a baby.haha good-bye

[Boss Hoggin Outlaw]

I've owned dogs since I was in junior high, and still own dogs from the same blood. I've been hunting since I was a kid and will always own dogs. If you do it for money, you need to find another hobby unless you're damn good and your dogs are damn good. I do it because I have a passion for dogs and enjoy hunting. I think more ppl need to come to that realization. Until then, kick back and listen to everyone "sellout" cuz they "don't have time" lol


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[Reuben]

I was hunting with dogs in grade school...started on my own and hunted alone in those days...caught lots of game with my dogs...and somehow or another I became dog crazy in those years...moved to the city and only kept one or 2 dogs either Doberman or Airedales and or welsch terriers...bred a few litters along the way and then started hog hunting when the hogs moved in in about 1980 or so...tried a few breeds and decided that if I wanted good dogs I had to breed them myself and did that for a long while...then in 2007 I got out and way in a year I had regrets...in 2009 I started back in and just now I am feeling like I might be headed in the right direction with my dogs...I love this website because I get most of my dog addiction somewhat satisfied...I consider myself a dog man through and through...

but I believe lots of guys get in because they get that adrenaline rush the first time out and then have to get in...but like already mentioned it is expensive to maintain dogs...I know all the shortcuts on what a dog needs but it is still expensive and they have to be fed everyday and slabs washed down and poop cleaned up...that is daily...and here in South East Texas if a hurricane come in I have to figure a way to get my dogs out...

if you want to take a vacation with the family I must try and find someone who will feed the dogs and clean up...I have to pay someone to do that...and I get back and the kennels are full of poop but they are fed and luckily they have automatic water when needed...

then it is a challenge to find and keep a good place to run dogs...usually have to rely on invites and then sometimes their style of hunting is not my style and I see it as a setback for a hunting dog...

I like dogs that don't quit and that will usually get the dogs in the wrong place...then we have to deal with Hiways and neighborhoods...

these fly by nighters that get in usually won't last long because of all of what has already been mentioned...

Then when a female comes in heat the dogs will be raising cane for three weeks...