Good day on the hill...
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:47 pm
I loaded the hounds today and went for a little drive to exercise the hounds. We had a good time and saw moose, deer, coyotes and a bitch lion track.
True to form, I threw the hounds down on the moose and coyotes to give'em a check then drove on looking for lion. Most of the hounds did go off on a bobcat or two, one was around a bend in the road and in about two to three inches of snow. I stopped the truck and gave them a pet'en while telling them good boys and girls then drove on.
High on the hill, in the crusted snow, my old Ike and Choco dogs both started bumping on an old frozen bitch lion track. It was late in the morning, there was alot of open ground and the track was frozen which told me it must have been made the afternoon before. But what the hell huh? Ain't that why we load hounds?
I kicked those two old red dogs down and my eleven year old Ryan dog. He's been roading with us all fall but hasn't been down a track since spring. Al three of those old hounds started walking down the track and giving a little voice, so I fed the younger dogs in one by one.
Well, I wish I could show you a photo of the lion but I went in and pulkled those dogs around 4:00 PM since tomorrow is a work day. Plus those older hounds are getting more like me all the time, cause when the sun goes down they'd rather be in the box headed for the house......
About forgot, never saw another truck or person on the mountain all day long..........
ike
True to form, I threw the hounds down on the moose and coyotes to give'em a check then drove on looking for lion. Most of the hounds did go off on a bobcat or two, one was around a bend in the road and in about two to three inches of snow. I stopped the truck and gave them a pet'en while telling them good boys and girls then drove on.
High on the hill, in the crusted snow, my old Ike and Choco dogs both started bumping on an old frozen bitch lion track. It was late in the morning, there was alot of open ground and the track was frozen which told me it must have been made the afternoon before. But what the hell huh? Ain't that why we load hounds?
I kicked those two old red dogs down and my eleven year old Ryan dog. He's been roading with us all fall but hasn't been down a track since spring. Al three of those old hounds started walking down the track and giving a little voice, so I fed the younger dogs in one by one.
Well, I wish I could show you a photo of the lion but I went in and pulkled those dogs around 4:00 PM since tomorrow is a work day. Plus those older hounds are getting more like me all the time, cause when the sun goes down they'd rather be in the box headed for the house......
About forgot, never saw another truck or person on the mountain all day long..........
ike
