You really don't ever want to put water all over a heat stroked dog it can throw them into shock and kill them we always carry some rubbing alcohol with us on hot days pour it on the pads of their feet and rub inside the flaps of their ears it will cool them off with out throwing them into shock as ...

What you say is sad but true! The chip we have states it blm road such and such(I cant remember the numbers it said) and it has three hippie trailers up it it just sucks we pay so much money to have these roads built then the decide the dont want to maintain them so they throw a gate up on them or ...

Im not sure how it is in everyone else's neck of the woods but we have been having some serious issues with locked gates both blm and dumb yuppies putting them up on public land! Its getting to the point of outrageous last sunday we had dogs out a public road that we needed to go get and guess what ...

I agree with alot of points that jkohnke makes.But To me I think the gps makes it a "fairer" you can use the gps to get to the treed/bayed up animal quicker and ends their stress wither it be to take your hounds off or kill. And also should things go wrong you can get to your dogs a whole helluva ...

We're down by grants pass my husband is 3rd gen houndsmen and me I got thrown into it by meeting him then fell in love with him and the dogs lol we run a pack of mutts got a little bit of everything

[quote="Diana"]Just so people don't think I am full of shit (I am a woman


just because your a woman doesnt mean your full of shit there are other women out here too thought we are far and few between in this mainly male dominated world always nice to hear from another houndswoman

Father's day weekend makes it hard for us might not make it this year a different weekend would draw a better crowd

The best thing to do is go to your vet. And I say this not because your vet needs your help paying for his next vacation lol but because the ones you buy over the counter will only treat certain ones but the kind your vet has treats a wide spectrum so your not doing the whole trial by error

We're more south west part of Oregon but we love ours..they do have there issues and lose signalsometimes but it would be VERY hard for us to go back to just the beep box we always run our dogs with both and I tell people to do the same we like to have the loyal back up if needed. Have had gps ...

Where in Oregon are you? Another trick you can use for a pulling dog is to put the leash on the wrap it around under his chest behind his front legs and back through the top on his back (like a makeshift harness) they don't like their chest squeezed once he quits pulling go back to the normal way of ...

Where in Oregon are you located?

Its not that I'm in need of help and want to ask a lot of questions most of the time I'm not even in the woods ill be in the middle of town at a store see someone I don't recognise but they have a box in there truck I have mine in the truck just about 99% of the time (only comes out if I really need ...

Never seen that mix but the houndsmen I know tend to shy away from bloodhounds. Due to there lack of speed.. not to say your gonna have a slow dog I beleave the breed doesn't really matters it all comes dog to the individual dog...good luck

What is with the grumpiness of hound hunters? When ever I see a hunter or rig I don'in your town I always try to be nice smile nod and say hi but damn so hunters are a bit on the grumpy side aren't we all out there together basically its a dying sport and you can't even be nice with your other ...

If you could give a little more info we might be able to help you out like what dis you go after while you were here? And if you can remember any names at all even just first names