Bad ending to a quick hunt

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Went to a new place yesterday me and my son....turned out a few plotts and they had a sow bayed in just a few minutes.. had to walk about 800 yards cause the roads were under water ..too much for the bikes to go thru.  We real dry over here...

When I get back from the bay I look and see my plott gyp that I just got back from Mr Mike cauley last week hanging off the back rack ...dead...ive been hunting all my life and aint never had a dog do this before..    so yall fellers take it from me and never leave a dog on ur bike clipped unless there feet is on the ground.   Or someone is there with em....truly made me sick to my stomach.  This was the only gyp pup I kept off that litter and she was gonna be a good one.  RIP...Shadow. .

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[Goose87]

Dang, hate to hear that, there aren't any words to ease up that knot in the gut feeling when something like that happens...

[NLAhunter]

Man that's a bad deal sure hate to hear that

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[TShelly]

Man I hate to hear that. That’s literally the worst feeling ever. Sorry bud.


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[Judge peel]

That sucks


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[Semmes]

That’s a bad feeling for sure!

We had that happen on a hunt once bout ten years ago.

Was night hunting with a bud of mine on his ranger and had my female bulldog and his male bulldog named ‘bull’ clipped to the rail on top the dog box where they always rhode.

The night hunts at this place always ended up all night fiascos and bout broke me from night hunting lol
....seems everything bad that could happen always did.

Bout 5 hrs into a miserable hunt I’m sitn in the passenger side and my bud makes a turn and I feel something brush my right arm. I look over and it’s bull just swinging from his neck like a carcass on a meat hook. I yell at Derek to stop and I lift bull and he climbs up to unsnap him. The dog was plumb dead. Tongue lolled out eyes wide open. Just dead...
 Ain’t no way of knowing how long that dog had been hanging like that. We touched his eyeballs and there was no reaction no breathing. He was sure nuf dead. I grabbed the dogs muzzle closed in my hand and did a big mouth to nose and could feel the dogs lungs fill up and then gave both three hard chest compressions.
I repeated that over and over for bout 5 minutes. Then all of a sudden when I was just bout to give up the dog made one huge long inhale on its own. After boutfive more mins of the dog breathing and picking its head up and wobbling to his feet, he was wagging his tail and pulling against his lead.  We chunked the dog back up on top and he directly went to try to position himself to hp my gyp like he had been doing all night long.... lol  dang crazy sob

[Shotgun66]

Very sorry for your loss. Appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there and share a tough experience for others to learn from. As much as we try, we can’t always prevent these accidents from happening. All WE can do is learn from it, put it behind us, and move forward.


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[Goose87]

That’s a bad feeling for sure!

We had that happen on a hunt once bout ten years ago.

Was night hunting with a bud of mine on his ranger and had my female bulldog and his male bulldog named ‘bull’ clipped to the rail on top the dog box where they always rhode.

The night hunts at this place always ended up all night fiascos and bout broke me from night hunting lol
....seems everything bad that could happen always did.

Bout 5 hrs into a miserable hunt I’m sitn in the passenger side and my bud makes a turn and I feel something brush my right arm. I look over and it’s bull just swinging from his neck like a carcass on a meat hook. I yell at Derek to stop and I lift bull and he climbs up to unsnap him. The dog was plumb dead. Tongue lolled out eyes wide open. Just dead...
 Ain’t no way of knowing how long that dog had been hanging like that. We touched his eyeballs and there was no reaction no breathing. He was sure nuf dead. I grabbed the dogs muzzle closed in my hand and did a big mouth to nose and could feel the dogs lungs fill up and then gave both three hard chest compressions.
I repeated that over and over for bout 5 minutes. Then all of a sudden when I was just bout to give up the dog made one huge long inhale on its own. After boutfive more mins of the dog breathing and picking its head up and wobbling to his feet, he was wagging his tail and pulling against his lead.  We chunked the dog back up on top and he directly went to try to position himself to hp my gyp like he had been doing all night long.... lol  dang crazy sob

Obie I did something very similar one night, I snapped my catch dog to the rail of my dog box on back of my truck and was watching a puppy on my garmin, Max was on my tail gate and I was easing along to front if property when the pup ran up in some mama cows, I didn't want them to tear out the raggedy lot they were in so I punched it not thinking about max, I got to the front and jumped out and ran the pup down and caught him, I was leading him to back of truck and found max out cold, his eyes looked just as you described, I unsnapped him and took his collar off and started giving him CPR and chest pumps, he finally stated gasping for air and eventually started breathing on his own, he was still unresponsive and wouldn't pick his head up, I left him alone for a few minutes while I kicked myself in the ass for letting this happen and I looked over and he was sitting upright holding his head up and eventually got his wits about him again....

[Austesus]

I hate to hear about your loss, I’ve been fortunate to not lose a dog yet but I know it’s only a matter of time until something happens. Good tips about reviving a dog also, I honestly wouldn’t have even thought about it, I would have assumed once they’re dead it’s too late. I guess that comes with age and experience


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[Cajun]

Heck Toby, I sure hate to hear that. Sucks all the way around and nothing you can do to make it feel better.

[t-dog]

Dang I hate that for you!

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[justincorbell]

That has always scared me to the point that if I am with other guys and we still have dogs on the bikes when we get ready to go to the bay I will make someone stay at the bikes or I will stay myself to make sure it doesn't happen. Ive seen a couple lost in similar fashion over the years and hate it. when I go by myself to a bay I take whatever dogs i have on the wheeler off and clip em to tree's for that exact reason. I sure hate to see that you lost one. Hard lesson learned amigo, sorry for your loss.