So, Dawg, that female in the 1st pic is grizzy she got bearwrecked at 3.5 lost her leg, she is now 8.5,pic is her goodside.lol she could hold a 55lb male coyote. She wasn't stupid aggressive on bay, the injury was a sequence of events. Who knows how long she'd have lasted in south Texas.
So, back to the trash, my pups run loose usually around 5 months. Grizzy is also loose and has run a fox or coyote everyday since about one month after her surgery. The pups start going with her around3.5 months. So the last three litters and the Fin get around 6 weeks of running over deer tracks with out a nevnevermind. In those 40 days most pups will bring home 5 to 10 quills. I still break off porcupines in a cage. We have snow almost 5 months a year so you can see what they smell, and most young dogs started with her can be deer broke verbally on the leash. A firm tug and firm voice, and an atta boy when ya unhook them on what you want. Sounds to easy, but with a lot of them it is. The Finnish hound on the other hand should glow in the dark. He's 2.5 and although much improved not 100%. Right or wrong he is impressive, crazy speed with tight corners, minimum loses. Some of these pups will not be able to resist a deer sight chase most don't stick to it just &%^$$ up the show. A little reinforcement and good to go.
Check dogs, we were still on beep beep trackers and bear here was scarce. I had a litter coming on a year when I thought I should chase some. I had a knock out cat dog and couple coyote catchers. How's I ever gonna get a bear chase? Well, I bought back a 4 year old dog I sold at 1. He was 4 hours away, the guy called a couple times a year to tell me how good he was. I gave 1000 more than I sold him for. That weekend I walked to 4 trees with them yearlings never seen the 4 year old check, start dog till back to the rig. Education has never been cheap. I may buy a pup, but thats it.
Rambled enough for a while.
This is them three little duffers on the porch. Here they are this morning ,10 months last week. The two older dogs treed a coon and we were over 2 hours getting to the treed pups.
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