Few questions for you guys that travel with your dogs to hunt.

[rdjustham]

Headed north to Ga for Christmas to do some deer hunting for two weeks and Last night my buddy calls me and tells me the hogs have gotten a lot worse up there since last year and asked if I wanted to bring the dogs with me this year.  My first reaction was heck yeah but then I started thinking about the logistics of it so I need some opinions/input.

My buddy doesn't have pens and my dogs have never been on tie outs.  Don't think I want them living in the dog box for two weeks. When yall travel and stay for a while how do you house your dogs? 

The coyotes around my buddy's place are THICK.  We really don't have them that thick around me, and my dogs aren't used to them so that's another hesitation.  The one thing I cam looking forward to is, my dogs have never hunted this kind of terrain, so im anxious to see how they do.

[Mike]

Get them used to being tied out before you go. Tie them out during the day and put them in the box at night if needed.

[rdjustham]

Gotta admit mike, I kinda feel stupid.  That actually never occurred to me until you said it. 

Still waiting to hear from the guys with the deer lease behind his house, have permission for all the surrounding property but the hogs hangout in the bottoms that divide all the properties, and I don't need a bunch of deer hunters shooting at my mutts.

[KevinN]

When I did the bay pen thing I'd use the system the sled doggers use. Just a long chain anchored on both ends. You can put individual tie outs along the length of it.

[charles]

Get them used to being tied out before you go. Tie them out during the day and put them in the box at night if needed.

x2
when I go to east tx with my dogs, I may tie out during the day, but most of the time I just let them run the property and then at night, I put them in the pig wagon, which is big enough to hold 5-7 dogs comfy.

I seen a guy do what kevin is saying about the long chain. he would run a 50-75' chain from tree to tree, or stake to stake and had 5' leaders off that spaced every 10-15' of so and tie his dogs off to each leader.

[rdjustham]

Im liking Kevin's idea, with putting them in the box over night.  Kevin what do you use as tie outs off the chain to keep the dogs from hanging up?

I haven't used tie outs in ten years after a dog hung himself while I was at work so im skeptical.

 This is primarily a deer trip to get my red meat for the year, and still haven't heard back from the hunting club on the property behind my buddy's place so no telling.

That and I usually "hunt" in town at night, not for hogs when I go up.. 

[KevinN]

Chains (with swivels) for the tie outs as well...like Charles said...five foot lengths spaced 10 foot apart. Works fine. Throw a little hay on the ground for a bed at each dogs tie out.

[Mike]

Make you a trotline...

[rdjustham]

do yall use swivels at the chain and the collar?

[Mike]

Just at the collar, I use "s" hooks at the chain. All you need is about 18-24" off the main line spaced to where the dogs can't tangle.

[Kid7]

Make you a trotline...

x2. Wen I went south for a few days then to San Angelo I just took 4 dogs and made a trotline. Tie one end to the ball hitch in your truck and the other to a tree. Or any good anchor will work

[sanman]

Trotline for me to. I put my bulldogs in the box at night, but the others stayed out.

I used some big coyote trap key rings to attach my chains to the main line, and swiveled snaps. Trap anchor rebar on either end, and it held fine.

[charles]

 damn mike, u got a lot of dogs, but them don't look like the 1s u had when we hunted back in aug. or r all those dogs not urs

[Mike]

Charles, only about 6 of those are mine. The others are JP's and Eric Barnes on a trip we made down to Cotulla a year or so back.

[charles]

Aw, ok.

[rdjustham]

Thanks a lot guys.  if everything else lines up and the dogs end up goin this is how they are gonna be kept.

[Cajun]

Every year when we go to Canada, I normally bring 7 or 8 dogs. At first I used the long chain or trotline but if you have just one dog pulling on it the other dogs cannot rest so I switched to individual chains. Also the dogs are just about laying in their crap after a while on a trotline.