Bobcat hunt question

[Nolte]

A sugestion... train or find a dog that will TREE a cat and run your dogs one at a time with it.

That is much easier said than done.

From what I've seen in our area, the cats would rather catch/bayup than tree. Don't know why but it's just what they do. Then as soon as you think you'll never see one in a tree, one will tree. I know it's very similiar if you cross over West from us and hunt MN.

I can load up the dogs, drive an hour or two E/NE and my chances go up quite a bit to tree one. Don't know why, it doesn't make sense but it's just what I've seen. Same dogs, same terrain, same snow, different outcome.

[Hounder-]

I agree Nolte.


I have seen more cats stop on the ground then climb a tree in my limited experience. One would think if they climb it would save them some hassle of fighting some dumb mutts, but maybe they want revenge.

[gunsrock38]

I'm going to be running bobcats in SD this year, but the people I have talked to say that treeing bobcats here is very difficult. The huge lion population here isn't helping any.