Alert! white dog found North Texas

[uglydog]

A dog wearing an UglyDog Ranch Cut Clollar with my old phone number has been found, dog is emaciated, and cut pretty bad in front leg. man says dog appears to been gon a long time, very skinny but friendly.

N. Texas area dog needs to be picked up and tended to, please spread the word and let ranch owners know that Hog Hunters do NOt abandon their dogs, or if someone can pick dog up until its owners are located

Man that  found dog called from cell phone 817-239-4634

[slimpickins]

Any idea on a location so we all know if we are close enough to go tend him?

[jsh]

Let me know where it's at.  I'm in Wise county, very near the 817 area code.  I'll kennel and care for it till its owner shows up.

[TT]

In area also

[uglydog]

Near German, Texas said was about 100 miles North of Ft. Worth

[W-tate]

Maybe jerymn. That's kinda but me there another guy on here live about 10 miles from there

[txboardog]

I found out who owns this dog he said he has been missing for about two weeks ill give him the # right now

[uglydog]

Thanks, please give us update on the dog.

[slimpickins]

Way to go guys, and Thank you Ugly...we all need to help one another and see that this turns out well.

[pig snatcher]

You know it is nice to see there are so many people on here that go out of their way to help other hunters and their dogs.

What gets me is why dont people out there put the brass name plates on their collars?  It is kind of a given around here that any dog with a collar from a hunting to to a fu fu house pet most likely has a brass name plate on its collar.  Heck a lot of us even put them on our leashes and anything else we can hook one to.  Just puzzles me.

[Cristina]

Very good point...I think us being dog owners, we need to make sure we make good decisions and take the necessary measures to keep our dogs safe, and not put them in those situations. I was hunting a couple weeks ago and we decided not to put a tracking collar on our lead dog because he usually doesnt stay out long. He struck a hog that my dad says had to have been at least 300 lb, my dad heard a yelp and the hog was gone. Now, we were afraid that willie was hurt somewhere in those woods because we called and called for him and he never came around, weve had him for almost 7 years and it is not like him to not come when we call. If we wouldve had a tracking collar on him it would have saved us the 4 hours we spent looking and worrying for him. We then got a call from a sheriff that had found him by a main highway looking lost, that was over 3 miles from where we were. Apparently Willie did not give up on the hog and went further than usual. We had a brass plate with name and numbers on his cut collar, the relief we felt was overwhelming. I feel its very important to make good decisions for our dogs, we learned our lesson about the tracking collars thats for sure. Im really glad this dog found his home 

[txboardog]

Yeah I even put big cattle ear tags on all of my collars so they are very visible some of my dogs won't let strangers catch them but somtimes they can see my name and # from a little ways off

[hoghunterdfw]

What gets me is why dont people out there put the brass name plates on their collars?  It is kind of a given around here that any dog with a collar from a hunting to to a fu fu house pet most likely has a brass name plate on its collar.  Heck a lot of us even put them on our leashes and anything else we can hook one to.  Just puzzles me.

I think a reasonable way to combat this would be if the people who sold the cut collars, just made it MANDATORY that the brass plate be on there instead of making it an optional $1.50 add-on. Just automatically have it added on to the cost. Not trying to criticize, just think that it would be a smart idea that is not to expensive to implement and would result in less dogs being lost, and also help show that hog dog hunters are responsible dog owners.

Oh yeah and I'm glad someone got there dog back, that is always a good story to hear, major thumbs up to krystal for putting in the effort to follow up on these kinda calls.

[uglydog]

Well I am glad the dog got back , but this is Krystal, The old collars have my cell phone number and still get calls for dogs that show up wearing vests and collars with an Ugly Dog label on them. I have picked up dogs and tracked down owners in the past that I got calls from. Alot of times people are scared of stray dogs and don't bother to look under the cut collar to see if there is any other information that could be covered up by the dog. Alot of variables that chane he outcomes of what we think about the way things should go.
The problem with putting tags on in a hurry/mandatory and still happens frequent is peoples numbers change and they move and don't change nameplates. Also alot of namesplates can fall off, so we cannot assume the dog did not start off with a nameplate.


TX BoarDog, please let us know that the dog was succesfully returned to rightful owner. I hate to think that nice folks willing to help give up trying if the dog was not the right dog, or it did not get picked up.

[txboardog]

I called the guy who owns the dog and gave him the number and he said he was going to go get him he lives only about 5 miles from jermyn. I tried to call him back to see if everything was alright but have not heard back from him when I find out ill sure let ya know.

[txboardog]

The dog has been picked up and he said he was cut up pretty good. Hopfully everything will turn out. Glad the owner got his dog back I'm glad there are people willing to put out a little effort to help out. Thanks to everybody. It wasn't my dog but it could happen to anybody so thanks again for the help