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I took Cosa to the vet saturday for x-rays. Her pelvis is broke in three places. She is retired for life and may not be able to deliver pups. When I woke up sunday, I was in a bad mood, so about 9:30 I collared up her mate Blue, their daughter Zia, and their grandson Iceman. We went for a walk out behind my house. When we left, I told Zia - "I don't want any crap from you today, lets kill a lion for mom", she can be a little trashy. Well about 10:30 we hit a 3 day old track. It was melted out and drifted and blown in with fresh snow from early that morning. I couldn't tell what direction it was heading, so I just trusted in the dogs. About 1/2 mile into it, I came to where it headed down a slope and I could see the snow piled to the front of the track and I knew we were on the right end of it. We unraveled thursdays' night time activities and then fridays'. We found where it had missed a kill friday. Then we came to saturday nights track, but it was already melting out fast and on the steep ground it was gone. There was only a slight disturbance in the mud of what was left of the track. Blue was going track for track and Zia was a little in front. We had slowed down and I was only 100 yds behind now. Blue worked up the finger ridge we were on and Zia cut accross canyon. She struck on the other side and trailed into a deep and steep slot canyon. As soon as she got out of sight I heard her strike like she caught wind of it, then a little silence and then she trailed into view at full bawl. She was trailing from right to left across from me on the bare slickrock. The way she was going I knew she had made a jump. About 200 yds further she was treed and the other two fell in right behind her. I still had not got a very good look at the track and was surprised to see a big old Tom up the tree! He was only 6 feet off the ground and he was pissed! It was a little nerve wracking getting the hounds tied back with him that close. I wasn't too comfortable turning my back on him 3 times at that range. When I pulled the trigger, the muzzle of my pistol was only 4 feet from his chest. On impact he litterally flew out of the tree. He measured 7 feet 9 inches from tip of nose to tip of tail and the skull green scores 15 1/8 inches.
Not a bad note to end Cosa's career on. It's time for the young ones to step up to the plate.

beautiful cat. sounds like great dog work to. sorry to hear about the other dog, sounds like your younger ones have it covered tho

Liontracker.

It is always nice when things come together after a long hard track. Great Cat!!

Good Luck and have a Merry Christmas

Kevin

Danm good cat good job< we cought one yesterday.

That's what I heard. Thanks and congrats to you guys.

thanks last sunday we ran i think there were 3 or 4 lions with Mike

Great job Tim. I know how hard it is when this stuff happens but she did her job it is just a dangerous job.

Some of you may not know Liontracker is a fearless guy when it comes to heights and steep places he walked high iron construction for a long time and he can tell where she was had his knees a shaking so you know it was bad.

Love the look of those bluedogs.Lion doesn't look too bad either.

Sorry to hear about your dog. revenge is sweet some times. Best of luck with the young ones.

Is them Del Cameron dogs?

Sorry to hear about your dog. My female not a hound but as just as good of a coondog as them she got ran over one night coonhunting and she had a broke pelvis in 5 places, but more less the left side was crushed and they wanted to do a formoral head removal they wanted atleast 6K for the surgery. I had in no way the options to get that kind of money so the vet told us we could lay her up in a crate for 8weeks and see is that would heal, well its been 4 months and she has made a full recovery. I hope your dog will be ok. Best to luck on hunting.

Yes Frog, them is Cameron hounds, straight from Del hisself. They did a femural head removal on her. She is starting to get around some. Just watching her move makes me sick.

I also have a dog that broke her pelvis in a few spots a couple years back and she has made a full recovery and is now an awesome cat dog. well good luck with her hopefully she has the luck my dog did and get a good recovery.
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Those are some really nice looking dogs Liontracker. Hope your dog makes a good recovery.

Thanks, you guys are the best!