Testing The Limits of Bobcat Hunting

[Dan McDonough]

I would like to hear about the cat dogs that didn't fit the mold but put a lot of fur in the shed. It might be interesting if this thread ended up with enough accounts of those oddballs to actually spur someone on to be successfull at bobcat hunting coming from a new angle.

What have you seen that was out of the box?

[LarryBeggs]

When I was a kid dad had a redbone walker cross named topsie. She was sloppy built.She was not fast.She would trash on every roosting grouse and opossum she came across but left the coyote and deer alone.If you put her in a hard cat race with all these running dog bred cat dogs today she would probably be way behind. But if you put her on that same cat by herself it might take her a while but she would put it in a tree or catch it on the ground.She caught a lot of cat by herself or with very little help .I remember dad did a lot of sewing cause if she caught it on the ground she wound chew on it and bark every once in a while till you got there.She was the only"cat dog" I remember that wouldnt strike a lick off the box.She roaded so slow you wonderd if she was sleep walking down the road untill she smelled a cat then every thing changed.Her biggest assets were heart , heart and more heart.I sure miss that old dog.To me she was the best cat dog I ever hunted with.But what did I know I was just a kid and that was 35+ years ago.Lets here some more storys about these odd ball cat dogs. Take care,Larry

[mike martell]

I had my walkers on loan and needed a dog to hunt here in Oregon. Bought a plott my granddaughter named Sponge Bob Square head.....This dog debunked the theory about hounds being intelligent!

The dog was a rattle trap on the rig and you could not get him to quit barking on the box nor could you hurt his feelings. He caught more bobcats on the ground than my running walker style dogs.....

How is that possible? Sure it would take him longer but the end results were better and when I traded him for some big named Walkers bred to walk on water it was soon over.

Sure miss that dog! Sure is bad when you get to disliking a dog you want to end it....Only problem was, dumb as that dog was, he was smarter them me!

[mark]

I dont know what "Mold" we are suppose to be using, but if i go by alot of the things i read on here i should probably cull everything and quit! That being said, i guess none of my dogs fit the "mold" but they do catch a cat or two a season.

[Dan McDonough]

Mark,

That's better than sitting around and complaining about how cold it is. I'd rather catch a couple than wonder what to do with myself all winter...especially here up North.

[StrawberryMt]

Here is one out of the box. My brother ryan had a little male dog that was the fastest track dog I have ever been with to date. Cold trail or jumped didn't tree the best but did tree. But when you heard the "coyote " open dogs better start cutting country if they didn't want to be embarrassed. Here is the out of the box. He was half sheltie 3/8 border collie and 1/8 healer. Buddy embarrassed ALOT of hounds.

[Dan McDonough]

I've seen several collie cross dogs make a pile of people go hmmmm. I know of several more. Obe Corey liked poltt x b. collie for cats and wrote some interesting things about it. They sure put some nice feet on a dog for the crusty snow.