Hound Protection Gear

Moonshiner · Post by **Moonshiner** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:22 am

I was wondering if anyone has ever put this stuff on their dogs?
http://valleycreekhuntingsupply.com/Products/hog.htm
Im wondering if I should get my pup a vest and over-collar just in-case, since he's my only dog and he has nobody to back him up in a fight cept me, lol, and i dont run as fast as he does.

DesertDweller · Post by **DesertDweller** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:15 pm

No, leave that to the hog hunters, you don't need that stuff.

kb · Post by kb » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:08 am

DesertDweller wrote:No, leave that to the hog hunters, you don't need that stuff.

ditto on that. yer dog's will overheat with all that on. we only use gear on our catchdogs

Moonshiner · Post by **Moonshiner** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:17 am

ok, has anyone ever had any major injuries inflicted on their dogs from Coyotes?

Post by **Buddyw** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:41 pm

Not exactly from the coyotes..

You don't need a Vest for anything in the northwest. Go start Taking that pup out alone and go hunt..Dont' worry about it. If you hunt that dog 3-4 times a Week.. Both you and the Dog will start putting it all together.

Buddy

RIFLEMAN · Post by **RIFLEMAN** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:48 am

Unless you hunt hogs, keep them off your dogs.

I have to collar and vest up my Walkers for hogs, and I can tell you that they slow the dogs down and heat them up like you cannot imagine. While my dogs have not been badly wounded since I strapped them into the straight jackets they call cut vests, the races are much longer than they need be.

three rivers catahoulas · Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:19 am

Thats either because the vest dont fit the dog right, or the dog goes months on end with out one on. I run vests and collars on all my hog dogs and it dont make a bit of differance in the way they move, but thats because they have'em on all the time, and the vests are built for specific dogs, not just run of the mill vests one size fitts all. No chapping under the front legs and no rubbin hair off anywere eles.

RIFLEMAN · Post by **RIFLEMAN** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:44 pm

The vests are the generally sized models according to a weight range, so that may very well be why mobility and chaffing is a problem. I have tried a loose fit, tight fit, and all points in between but encounter the same problem.

Do you make your own, or is there a company that will custom-make a vest based on your submitted measurements?

three rivers catahoulas · Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:11 pm

Yeah, my wife and I build our own vest's. We build them to fit the dog so that all that stuff doesn't happen, the vests that are sold by valletcreek and other places are good vests, but like you said they are generaly sized, and if the dog is comfortable in the vest makes a big differance on there preformance. We also build our own cut collars. We dont make seperate vests for bay or catch there all the same thickness. And our cut collars are the same too. Our vests are four layers of 1050 Ballistic red nylon and our collars are 8 layers of 1050 red ballistic nylon.