Let’s talk.

[lawdawgharris]

Rowdy I was riding a horse on a hunt that tried that very thing of going where he wanted to go instead of where I wanted. He like to have cut my head off in a briar thicket. He just took the bit in his mouth, ducked his head, and went. You best believe we had a come to Jesus meeting. I did do some “whoa” work as soon as we got out of there. It can get you hurt and I’m sure dead in the mountains.

Beebout-it, those tracks are probably there because they know you can’t do anything about them right now.


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[SASS]

Happy late Thanksgiving yall. Hope you and your families have a blessed one.

Winterized the kennels yesterday which here where I am at in the South usually just means putting some coastal in their houses. I have one genius out there, who is rail thin and doesn't gain weight, slick coated, and will not leave a strand of hay in his house. Digs it all out and all over the place everytime. Lucky for him most winters do not get that cold here hahaha.

[Beebout-it]

I’ve got dogs that dig all the straw out of their houses immediately after I put it in, but they really need it here had 60 below last year. Snows pretty sparse in the low country but should be able to round up those female lions come Sunday.

[Rowdy Fitz]

Law: This mule isn’t near that bad thankfully. She isn’t good though lol. She was much better by the end of the day and started neck reining some.

Sass: I would like to use straw but it’s ridiculously expensive here. It’s $25-30 a bale. I can buy 2 bags of shavings for that price and fill 8 kennels.

Joe: I’m glad it doesn’t get that cold here! We usually don’t get below 0 deg. It’s been between 10- 15 deg every night for the last week and it’s supposed to warm up to 18-20 deg starting tonight.

[Beebout-it]

Got some much needed therapy today…caught a nice female lion after some great trailing in mostly dirt. Dogs pulled up treed shortly then rolled out again so I hiked 3/4 of a mile to where they had treed and there sat a fat female lion. I started looking around and figured out she had 2 kittens that were pretty good size that didn’t tree with mom but the dogs treeing a bit gave them the chance to cross two deep creek bottoms and elude the dogs in some bluffs. Hiked them back to the female and she bailed and gave them a good run straight towards the truck! Conditions are awful, 10 degrees at daybreak and 55 by the time I got back to the truck.

[lawdawgharris]

Dang if it gets much colder you’re gonna need a jacket.


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[Beebout-it]

https://youtube.com/shorts/XYbBJvbydC0? ... GkiNtmKlXD

[lawdawgharris]

They sure are purdy creatures.


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[Beebout-it]

Definitely not as ugly as those critters you chase around

[Beebout-it]

Had an interesting morning yesterday, found a lion track low on my last road to check. Figured I’d check all the way through then come fool with the cat in the dirt. Decided to check a little side road at the top that I never have been on. Get a mile back and come upon a truck sitting in the road on a steep hill and the back drivers side door is open and the stereo is blasting. There’s dog food dishes and 2 mixed breed dogs running around and a bunch of magazine pages laying around. An older gentleman pops his head out and yells boy am I glad to see you!!! He continues to tell me that the “dementia “ got him bad and he had no idea where he was and that he was out for one last deer hunting trip and had been stuck there for 4 days. Hunting season ended Sunday so I figured maybe he had been there since then. He really wasn’t stuck but on a patch of ice and must have panicked and wouldn’t move. I helped him turn the truck around and asked if he was comfortable following me out to the main road and he said now that I was there he felt great and confident he could. When we got down he insisted he could drive home so I took down his number and away he went, when I got down to the lion track the guy that traps bobcats was there and told me he had that female lion I caught on Monday in one of his bobcat sets and I asked if he wanted a hand turning her loose and he gladly accepted. It was a bit western but with his choke pull we got it done without incident. I got out to service and call the ol fellow I helped out and his phone was still dead but I started thinking I made a bad decision, today still the same so I called the sheriffs office and they said he had made it home and was very very pissed at his roommate for calling the police to look for him

[Rowdy Fitz]

Man, Joe! That’s a crazy day!

[Beebout-it]

Caught the same lion I caught on day 2 yesterday. Had snow on the road but nothing the way it was going. Turned the males out and they absolutely crushed it on dry frozen ground for a little over 2 miles. Jumped him out of some bluffs and treed him in a creek bottom that had I had my buggy(broke down on me Sunday) I could have driven within 10 yards of the tree but the 700 yard hike up a road was totally acceptable it’s the same cat I had to release from the bobcat trap, foot is a little worse than I thought but I’m certain it will heal up just fine.

[Beebout-it]

https://youtube.com/shorts/tiYzUo9JDAw? ... fI5o6wMqIf

[Beebout-it]

https://youtube.com/shorts/W5IWU_uzOLo? ... rJlof52Q-R Longest race of the season, dogs treed 33 yards off a nasty little road but took my little puppies and walked a mile and a half to them. Little fellas had a blast!

[lawdawgharris]

It’s fun messing with puppies. I love even playing around the yard with little pups. I like to scatter chopped up weenies or sliced up chicken liver around the back yard. Sometimes I scatter it all over, sometimes I do a couple of drags so they can trail it, and sometimes I’ll stick it to the sides of different things like trees, of a fence, or in a bush up off the ground but where they can reach it. I get to see each ones instincts and they learn from it, plus if I put more than one pup on it, it creates a little competition. I really think it helps them learn when to spend time on something they smell as opposed to just staying hung up. They have to decide if it’s where something was and is now gone or if it’s still there. The drags of course just gives them tracking experience and the times it’s stuck up higher teaches them to get their heads up and wind as well. It’s fun to watch.


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