All the hunts kind of blend together as we were going non-stop and hunting with different people. So I may not get all the facts or order of events just right. That's my disclaimer.....
I hunted Monkey and Spur together the second day....I think?? Anyway, I rarely hunt them together anymore as they tend to get wrecked when hunted together. Several people on here can vouch for that. But I didn't get a bark the first morning and when you turn these two loose together, they usually produce hogs. For those of you that don't know, Spur is Monkey's son.
We picked a likely looking spot and turned the Monkey and Spur loose and headed towards the river. After going a ways and the dogs hunting out, then coming back and checking in, then leaving again, we heard a dog bay. I thought it was Spur so we headed that way. As we got closer, we found that Monkey had a hog caught and Spur had one bayed and they were about 150 yards apart. Now these two dogs are REAL independent so neither would go to the other as long as they had their own hog. Dave, Rowdy and I headed to Monkey. Dave got there first (and Rowdy got ragged on the the rest of the hunt how he let a 63 year old man beat him to a caught hog...
). As soon as he legged the hog, Monkey went to Spur. Noah, Chance and Cattle had gone to Spur also. Monkey got there and both dogs were baying. Noah turned his Dogo loose and caught the hog, a big sow. It would have made great video as the sow was fighting the dogs and they were baying and circling. But the Dogo got there!!
In the pic are Rowdy, Cattle, me, Dave, Noah and his Dogo. That's Monkey in the background.
