Furry four legged companion

[smo]

Nice stringer of deer there , Lobo .

Here’s my mut , all 180 pounds of her .

She a gentle giant , just not enough room in my blind for the both of us! LOL

 

[Straekat]

Spot the Wonder Dog, heeler and fox terrier. Best dog I ever had, 16 years of pure love she gave me. Been gone long time now, but still miss her.
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She looks a lot like an Australian cattle dog of mine that died a few years ago. Great herding instincts, and rodent killer, but not hunting material.

 

[Juice Jaws]

She hated gophers, kill more than a few, she thought she was hunting.

 

[Juice Jaws]

She looks a lot like an Australian cattle dog of mine that died a few years ago. Great herding instincts, and rodent killer, but not hunting material.

Spot hated gopher's , kill more than a few, Spot thought she was hunting.

 

[Bnthere]

Here is my former companion. Lost her when she was 15 years old
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She was an English Cocker.

Good looking photo. Did she hunt with you?

 

[nhmoose]

Yes she hunted with me. She treed that gray and bayed treed like a hound. {she was raised with a couple of my sons beagles bayed just like them} She flushed many woodcocks and quite a few partridges.

 

[Patocazador]

My current dog has been my best out of dozens over the years. I started with beagles, then pointers, then Brittanies and now a Boykin spaniel. Unfortunately, she has arthritis and is losing her acute sense of smell @ 13 years old.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Time to let her lay by the fire and dream of past times and great hunts .

 

[Rat]

Okay...you guys might not believe this story. I've had a few Black Labs. Great dogs. So a couple of years after the last Lab died, I told my wife: "no more dogs". Couple of years later, she comes home, tells me to close my eyes, and puts this Yorkshire Terrier puppy in my hands. She says: "well you can name him". So I thought of the worst name for a lady's dog, and named him "The Killer".

Well...nothing I could do about it, but figured if we were going to have this little dog, I'd train it to be obedient at least. I found that it was very trainable, in fact insanely intelligent. Then I noticed it seemed to have a very good nose. So I started teaching it to find a grouse wing, hidden here and there. Can you guess the rest?

This Killer turned out to be the hardest working, never give up, grouse dog ever. He was brave and fearless. He could/would go into stuff no big dog could get into, and flush them out. I've seen pure bred bird dogs get tired at the end of the day, and quit working. The Killer never gave up. He'd swim streams, go anywhere. One time he was staggering with fatigue, but I'd say: "go on in there find the bird", and he'd shift into high gear and go.

Of course he was too small for pheasant and such, but was hell on grouse. In high grass I'd just throw him over my shoulder, hold him by the hind legs, and he was perfectly content. He would also "tree" grouse. When they would fly off through the trees he would run after them, the then stand at the bottom of the tree they landed in, and bark. Those three grouse in my avatar pic with my Brown Bess were compliments of The Killer.

So, if the wife ever comes home with a little dog puppy, and it's a Yorkshire...it won't be a bad thing if you hunt grouse.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Rat, I believe any dog can be trained to hunt whatever you want it must be instinct from years gone way back. Example my best friend just bought a Korelian bear dog female puppy she is a scandanavian breed, The kind you see on the game warden shows on t.v. She is being trained to hunt geese. I had a uncle whom owned a beagle he would not hunt rabbits but was a terror on quail and pheasant's would find them and just stand still until we walked up and then he would flush the birds.

 

[Patocazador]

I trained a stray sheepdog/poodle cross to retrieve ducks and hunt and retrieve snipe.

 

[smo]

I once had an American Eskimo ( Eskimo Spitz) that would tree squirrels,Great Dogs.

 

[Rat]

Rat, I believe any dog can be trained to hunt whatever you want it must be instinct from years gone way back. Example my best friend just bought a Korelian bear dog female puppy she is a scandanavian breed, The kind you see on the game warden shows on t.v. She is being trained to hunt geese. I had a uncle whom owned a beagle he would not hunt rabbits but was a terror on quail and pheasant's would find them and just stand still until we walked up and then he would flush the birds.

Yorkshires were originally bred to catch/kill rats. (yeah...RATS) But still I would never have thunk they could shine on birds.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Protoazadore. Having a old English sheep dog he has since passed, I bet your dog was a chore to clean up after a hunt. Chauncey was his name great dog but did not like water he would not even walk in wet grass. We are currently awaiting a new lab puppy we can pick him up Jan 10th, this will be our 2nd lab. the first one was a black lab and a great dog. I would not live with out a four legged furry friend.

 

[Bnthere]

Okay...you guys might not believe this story. I've had a few Black Labs. Great dogs. So a couple of years after the last Lab died, I told my wife: "no more dogs". Couple of years later, she comes home, tells me to close my eyes, and puts this Yorkshire Terrier puppy in my hands. She says: "well you can name him". So I thought of the worst name for a lady's dog, and named him "The Killer".

Well...nothing I could do about it, but figured if we were going to have this little dog, I'd train it to be obedient at least. I found that it was very trainable, in fact insanely intelligent. Then I noticed it seemed to have a very good nose. So I started teaching it to find a grouse wing, hidden here and there. Can you guess the rest?

This Killer turned out to be the hardest working, never give up, grouse dog ever. He was brave and fearless. He could/would go into stuff no big dog could get into, and flush them out. I've seen pure bred bird dogs get tired at the end of the day, and quit working. The Killer never gave up. He'd swim streams, go anywhere. One time he was staggering with fatigue, but I'd say: "go on in there find the bird", and he'd shift into high gear and go.

Of course he was too small for pheasant and such, but was hell on grouse. In high grass I'd just throw him over my shoulder, hold him by the hind legs, and he was perfectly content. He would also "tree" grouse. When they would fly off through the trees he would run after them, the then stand at the bottom of the tree they landed in, and bark. Those three grouse in my avatar pic with my Brown Bess were compliments of The Killer.

So, if the wife ever comes home with a little dog puppy, and it's a Yorkshire...it won't be a bad thing if you hunt grouse.
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That's a great story rat

View attachment 1456 I could fill up a lot of pages with pictures and stories about my dogs. I've had beagles I ran rabbits with, hunted pheasants with them and ran fox all with the same dog.

Coon dogs more than I can count.

Bear and cat hounds.

Bird dogs of just about every breed. A Lwellin setter brings back many fond memories in the grouse woods and pheasant fields. Now I have two drathaars that go hunting with me about everyday of season. We hunt pheasants,blue grouse, ruffed grouse, Hungarian partridge,chukkar, sharptailed grouse and sage hens.

I think that will be my next breed. They mostly go for about 1500.
I'm looking for one closer to 500.

 

[jackley]

That's a great story rat

I think that will be my next breed. They mostly go for about 1500.
I'm looking for one closer to 500.

I think a good choice. I use them for about everything.There great companion dogs also.
Four years ago I bred my dog. I only wanted one female pup, she had nine. I sold them for $100 so I wouldn't have that many pups around. They went like hot cakes! So there out there.

 

[32 ballard xl]

Okay...you guys might not believe this story. I've had a few Black Labs. Great dogs. So a couple of years after the last Lab died, I told my wife: "no more dogs". Couple of years later, she comes home, tells me to close my eyes, and puts this Yorkshire Terrier puppy in my hands. She says: "well you can name him". So I thought of the worst name for a lady's dog, and named him "The Killer".

Well...nothing I could do about it, but figured if we were going to have this little dog, I'd train it to be obedient at least. I found that it was very trainable, in fact insanely intelligent. Then I noticed it seemed to have a very good nose. So I started teaching it to find a grouse wing, hidden here and there. Can you guess the rest?

This Killer turned out to be the hardest working, never give up, grouse dog ever. He was brave and fearless. He could/would go into stuff no big dog could get into, and flush them out. I've seen pure bred bird dogs get tired at the end of the day, and quit working. The Killer never gave up. He'd swim streams, go anywhere. One time he was staggering with fatigue, but I'd say: "go on in there find the bird", and he'd shift into high gear and go.

Of course he was too small for pheasant and such, but was hell on grouse. In high grass I'd just throw him over my shoulder, hold him by the hind legs, and he was perfectly content. He would also "tree" grouse. When they would fly off through the trees he would run after them, the then stand at the bottom of the tree they landed in, and bark. Those three grouse in my avatar pic with my Brown Bess were compliments of The Killer.

So, if the wife ever comes home with a little dog puppy, and it's a Yorkshire...it won't be a bad thing if you hunt grouse.
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Great story! Mine is not as exciting, but I'M GOING TO TELL IT ANYWAY. We had a dairy farm, fifty Holstiens and a bull. My wifes mother had given her a Yorkie. Nice puppy, I said, useless, I thought. Boy, was I wrong. She started taking the Yorkie with her when she brought in the cows to the barn. It took that little devil exactly two days to figure out what she was doing. He pretty well took over the herding of all of those 1200 pound animals every morning, and him weighing about 7 pounds. She called me out of the milkhouse to watch him work the cows, and boy was he "cock of the walk"

 

[azmntman]

Some dogs (all breds) are just smart. My newest lil german shepherd/siberian husky (at 12 weeks) started to learn how to use door knobs. Hi Ball drive, her bark sounds worse than our 13.75 yr old German Shepherd. AND She cuddles. Thats what I like in a dog, companionship.

My son just lost his 10 yr old Siberian Husky last nite, was FINE thursday, when we saw him, guess he woke up in terrible pain and lethargic Sat AM. Son has been a vet tech 10 yrs and knew it was bad. Had cancer in most organs, nothing to do but let him go. That dog (my middle dogs dad) was THE smartest dog I have ever seen. My mom tells of a bull dog named Jack that was her nanny on the farm. Gramma would tell Jack to watch the baby and if she tried to roll or crawl off Jacked grabbed her by the diaper and put her back on the blanket.

I will ditto what others have said....I wont live w/o a dog, they are what people are supposed to be like. Favorite country song "why dont you love me like my dogs does"