Perk here have seen dogs that I and others owned that were three to five years old before they made dogs one could depend on to locate and tree on bobcat. Dogs have a short life spam my experience best years are 5,6 & 7. If a dog is helping catch game always tough decision when to give up on the...

Mule man those three dogs owned by first mentor were redticks, he used them most every day in his job. They were used on coyote, bobcat & coon, he shot most of the coyotes they got by waiting on the places he knew the coyotes would cross, but they did catch some on the ground. they also served a...

I f they false treed and I could be sure they were false treed, in old days gave them a harsh talking & switching. In more modern used the e collar. I never got real heavy on unless it was happening too often & dog was not searching well before treeing. Hunted with a good hunter some that us...

I kinda read your post wrong yesterday. Yes sure nice to see dogs start like the Belle female. But those type dogs can be too quick tree some times. Instead of hype them up to start & tree one has to work on taking some tree out of them it can be done, but mostly likely not 100%. I learned with ...

Yes Mule Man there have been a few good Oney dogs in my country, sure would have been more if more were brought here. there good in all breeds. Good hearing from you.

Belle was five months old when treed that first coon She did become more open on trail, never wasted any barks. Most of the bobcats she caught were likely because she was tight on cold track & ran to catch on jump. She caught lot of big toms at that time we had a good cat population the hard run...

Owned some sort hunting dog as long as can remember. 1965 bought five month old female for 50.00, Belle was a grandaughter to Merchant/s Bawlie also grandaughter to Hershbergers Okla. Spot. Recall so proud to show her to my dad, Dad said nice looking female, but you have a lot of shoe leather to wea...

I had a internet friend in southern Mississippi he told me running dogs there sold for those kind of prices, he also said most of those were ran on several types of game. I would not want the challenge of converting those dogs to bobcat dogs. I am a believer that dogs form habits when allowed to run...

If you have plenty of money buy yourself a good strait cat dog or two, if you can find them for sale. However be sure you hunt with those dogs & see them tree bobcat in the terrain type you will be hunting them in. If money is not available take kickemall advice & don/t expect immediate succ...

Go back and read what Kickemall wrote, very good advice in my opinion.

Well treeing bobcat here in Southwestern Oregon has been a real challenge at times no matter whose dogs I hunted with. There are cats in most areas that get hunted hard that are alive because they have learned to escape the best dogs around. However, if one gets enough chances they eventually are go...

I can/t count myself as real bobcat hunter now days, in the past I have trained some very good rig dogs. The good ones I owned rigged bobcat scent of all kinds, yhey rigged every piss post in the country, cold bobcat tracks, hot bobcat tracks. However, no watter how good they are at rigging they sur...

Always been a mystery why some refuse to climb, do know from experience you can make those kind by jumping them out and course not harvesting.

One green dog & six pups, man that must be a challenge. Good luck

For sure one never knows how cold nosed dogs are if you hunt alone. However, in my experience dogs that are worked with others that cold trail have sure improved in ability to cold trail. The more they were allowed to work the old stuff the better they got at doing so. It became very evident a few t...