Do cur dogs make good bobcat dogs?

[hotshot630]

My question is do curdogs make good bob cat dogs, and is it legal to hunt bob cats in TN, using dogs?

[Jeff Eberle]

Yes they will. Its just like hounds you have to get the right bloodline for what you want to hunt.

[hotshot630]

The reason I ask is my cur dog has only been hunted on squirrell and coon, but anytime a house cat comes through the neighbor hood he goes wild, even more so than he does on coon and squirrell, I started to start shocking him off them but don't want to discourage him from treeing. I also have read a few articles where cat hunters start their pups by using domestic cats in roll cages a couole of times while they are young pups. Also back in the winter I had him out in the snow squirrell hunting in east ky, he started working a track in the snow and when I got up to him it was a bob cat track it crossed a leaning tree and jumped down in the snow I scolded him off it.

[mtncurhunter]

I use both my curs on bobcat here in PA. I have had good success with them.

[Charlie83541]

[Tim Pittman]

Seen some really good things out of the Lep curs on bobs[that's all we run]one of the better bear hunters in these parts,runs the also and wouldn't have anything else.IMO they've got their place in a pack.
As far as house cats,drags and all the other mumbo jumbo in my experience it doesn't mean anything unlees you plan on making a field trial dog,otherwise hunt'em on real game in real situations and you'll have real dogs.
Tim 541-912-6464

[david]

As far as dogs that actually catch bobcats on the ground, I have seen a lot more curs that were natural at it than I have seen hounds. If you want to use full hounds, you better look for some that have long been bred for bobcat or grey fox. But there have been a lot of cur dogs that have just accidently made good bobcat catchers without one dog in their background that was ever hunted on bobcat.

I would bet money you got one of those curs there. I hope he gets the chance to prove it. Might be a little tough if he has to do it in-between whippins

[Charlie83541]