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Ive heard and read of dogs hunting, treeing, etc. for 2,3,4 consecutive days non-stop around the clock. How is this physically possible for a dog? No sleep and food, and the only water they get is crossing a creek, etc....

I have heard stories and such of dogs doing this. I think alot of times the dogs may be out for 2 days or 3 or 4 or however long but staying treed that long i dont so much believe. I do believe guys have had dogs out for a couple days and when they find them they are treed. They could have been out finding their way back and stumbled across a bear or lion or whatever and treed it. Which instantly convinces the owner to think there newly achieved rockstar of a dog was treed for 3 days. Man Ol Fido is the best dog alive he stayed treed on a bear for 3 days, and was still treeing every breath when i got there. You would think, a dog that has been out for any long amount of time and supposed to be treed for several days would be completely horse and probably not making much noise. But then agian i would'nt know. Don't get me wrong I believe with all my heart there is dogs that will and have stayed treed over night and on into the next day, even 2 days is not too far fetched. Anything over 2 days i start to scratch my head. I do believe dogs can be out for a few days come across a critter and still get that burst of energy and drive and heart to run and tree it. If there is guys with stories about dogs staying treed for a few days that you know for sure were there for that long please tell us about it. I would like to hear some stories about this. I think Most of the time when guys find there dogs treed after being out for a few days i think they got lucky and found them at the right time maybe an hour earlier and they werent treed or an hour later and they would have been coming out who knows... Lets hear some stories. DC

I had a dog gone for 6 days a few years ago in training season. I was done hunting for the day and went to water the dogs after i took the tracking collars off. I had put two dogs in and turned around to get the next one and the latch on my door wasnt quite engaged. The young gyp got out and took off with just the normal collar on. Stayed out a good while that day looking for her and looked several hours everyday for her along with guys hunting in the area while I was at work. With no sight of her by the 6th day I had given up and thought someone took her when she crossed a road. So went hunting that morning, got one going and treed. It went through the area I lost her in and when I got to the tree she was there standing on the tree. Pretty sure she heard the dogs and went to them. I told a few of the guys as a joke I had that bear treed for 6 days and there dogs just happened to go by. This story wasnt really along the same lines as your topic, but for being out 6 days she had enough energy to make it to the tree.

Matt

I'm sure that it has happen many of these dogs are tuff much tuffer then you would think. My buddy had his dogs out 2 yrs ago for 14 days, they looked like death when he did get them back but they made it. Food and sleep is not needed as much as some would think. Them dogs of my buddys were found up under a log with 4 feet of snow over and around them. They might have had a little food around that log but due to the storm, all that snow and lack of tracks they were under there for atleast 12 of the 14 days. We all know water is the key if they can get to water I would think 3-4 days could be done. I know for a fact dogs can go 3-4 days with out any food. As for sleep if we as humans can go 3-4 days with out sleep why couldnt a dog. I hope some guys will chime in on this that have seen it with there own eyes.

call it what you want, but here's my story. we were hunting high country deep snow for lion. I wasn't really familliar with the mountain, but found an old tom track at 1 pm and dumped 2 dogs on it. I was just used to the dogs being able to overtake the cat within a couple miles. the snow was over waist deep and I could never make it to where I got a reading on the dogs that night. the next day on snowshoes I hiked the dog tracks all day. the tom had hunted to the bottom of a big valley and then clear over the top of a big mountain. still didn't get a reading on them that day. on the 3rd day I made it to where the dogs spent the first night and into the next valley. on day 4 I figured my dogs for dead but kept hiking and came to where they had been treed for a long time on what I assume was day 2 for them. tree beat in a 20 foot radius with dog tracks and could see where the lion jumped and ran. day 5 more of the same, was trying to locate some one with a chopper to take me in as I was exhausted from snowshoeing and the warm days were starting to melt out the tracks. day 6 I found a cut off rd where the dogs were last headed and got a beep beep on them. treed! hiked the dry souths to the tree and they were still trying to bark at the cat. both the dogs and the cat were gant to say the least. I decided to let that nice tom go, I figured he had earned the right to live after all that.

mine have never been out that long, but my two work together well enough that if I take too long getting to the tree, one will stay while the other comes back looking for me.
I would not be surprised if dogs learn to let one sleep or go for water while the others keep pressure on. won't happen with every pack, but dogs that know each other learn to work together.

I had a lion treed for 4 days behind some private land ...... We had a little trouble with a land owner that thought he owned the mountain, He said he would shoot me and the dogs. I finally just told the sheriff that i was going in there and if that guy tried stoping me we would have a problem. I went in a public access sled trail and hiked around the mountain to were they where and sure enough when i got there they still had the cat treed. A nice 135#-140# tom. they where some tired puppies.

Houndnem and Brianshounds thats some heart!!! Thanks for the reply's!!! I've heard of a hog dog around here that when you carried him it was a two to three day ordeal catching him. After the bulldogs caught he'd roll out before you could get there and be gone again. I have a pup sired by a full brother to this dog, the owner keeps him rollin fat so he'll finally give out.

Pretty cool stories everyone.

We leave dogs on the mountian all the time... we hunt whenever we get the chance and a lot of the time we are scrambling to get to work on time. I work nights so that i am able to hunt more, and im an idiot.

The longest we had dogs out on the mountian this last year was 16 days. Had a young dog caught in a trap and she lost a couple of toes. The old dog that she was with looked like death but he pulled through and is still alive today. They had caught a lion and before dark we pulled them off but this old dog wasn't raised by us and wouldn't leave the tree. When the cat jumped the dog went after it with the pup. Storms followed the next few days and we could never get to them. They had covered some ground from where we left them to where they were picked up. No cat when they were found.

Frosty had a dog named Lando that several times was left for a few days. The longest he was out and found with a lion in a tree was 7 days. He had a few other times that he was out 3 and 4 days. He was getting old and would go find a track for himself and he would have something in a tree when you found him. I know of a few dogs that when they got older they would do this same thing. Kind of a pain in the butt but you have to give the old fellas some credit.....

Another time we had a crew of dogs that crossed over a mountian range and were in a nasty canyon. Kinda same deal had a storm come in and couldn't figure out where they went. Well after a couple days and being able to snowmobile in we atleast kinda knew where they were headed but couln't get to them. Dogs came off the mountain from 2 days to 7 days later and made if back to where we started hunting them before.

I know of a dog that held a bear by himself for three days in a bad rain storm. Everything else had come off of the bear but the one dog. They ended up killing the bear when they could finally get to them. Pretty amazing storie for sure in my book.

We have a bit of overnighters with the lion still caught but dogs that will consistently stay treed for days on end are pretty special....especially if they are doing it all alone.

Take care, jason

i was gone on vacation one time and had a couple of dogs kenneled together. they had automatic feeders and running water so nobody was checking on them. i got a call from an animal control officer who told me i had some nice coon dogs because they had been treed non-stop for 3 days. they had ripped out of my kennel and treed a coon near a sawmill. the workers had got annoyed at the constant barking so on the 3rd day they called the dog catcher. he went in and got them off the tree took them back home and even fixed my kennel. had to buy him a case of beer when i got home

seen some dogs in NC that stayed out 8 days. the area was thick with bear and everytim they started back to the road they'd cut another track and run it.