Another new member from CA
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:48 pm
Howdy all,
I’m new to hounds. I’ve been threatening to get hounds or curs for a while now but was waiting until I moved away from this state because my real interest is in bear and cats.
When we used to be able to run bears with dogs it was a great atmosphere. I never personally had any hounds but you couldn’t shake a stick without hitting a bear dog man. Opener of deer season wasn’t just deer, it was the music of hounds as well. At that time I wasn’t in the position to get a pack of dogs.
Quickly we started losing all of our rights and I’ve been trying to leave for so long but my wife was in graduate school, my boy was born, life went by. I see some light at the end of the tunnel, my wife is nearly done with school - I’m realistically looking at being somewhere new in 1 year.
I could have had better foresight though, I have so much to learn about tree dogs and so now I’ve been thinking it’s time to get into it, running what we can run in California, with trips out of state too. By the time I move maybe I’ll have some better knowledge to get the job done on some bigger game.
I do quite a bit of predator calling already. We have a ton of gray fox, coon, and coyote. I could see myself running some fox and coon for practice.
My father and grandfather ran beagles and the occasional walker for deer. Story has it that my grandfather sold a beagle to Charles Schulz long ago. I’ve always had affinity toward that color dog because of their stories. But looks don’t matter much if it hunts. I would like to get a walker. I’m already on the waitlist for a Mountain Cur pup, from some fellow in Wyoming. Looking at mixing things up, seeing what I like. Also I’d like to find a Patterdale or Jagdterrier for blood tracking and killing vermin (gophers, rats), whatever else - I manage a ranch and have quite the rodent problem.
Dog men are harder to come by than they used too. I’d like to get out with folks but everyone I knew that ran bears sold everything off and stopped running anything altogether. I see there are some other people from California out there and just want to thank ya’ll for keeping the sport alive.
I’m new to hounds. I’ve been threatening to get hounds or curs for a while now but was waiting until I moved away from this state because my real interest is in bear and cats.
When we used to be able to run bears with dogs it was a great atmosphere. I never personally had any hounds but you couldn’t shake a stick without hitting a bear dog man. Opener of deer season wasn’t just deer, it was the music of hounds as well. At that time I wasn’t in the position to get a pack of dogs.
Quickly we started losing all of our rights and I’ve been trying to leave for so long but my wife was in graduate school, my boy was born, life went by. I see some light at the end of the tunnel, my wife is nearly done with school - I’m realistically looking at being somewhere new in 1 year.
I could have had better foresight though, I have so much to learn about tree dogs and so now I’ve been thinking it’s time to get into it, running what we can run in California, with trips out of state too. By the time I move maybe I’ll have some better knowledge to get the job done on some bigger game.
I do quite a bit of predator calling already. We have a ton of gray fox, coon, and coyote. I could see myself running some fox and coon for practice.
My father and grandfather ran beagles and the occasional walker for deer. Story has it that my grandfather sold a beagle to Charles Schulz long ago. I’ve always had affinity toward that color dog because of their stories. But looks don’t matter much if it hunts. I would like to get a walker. I’m already on the waitlist for a Mountain Cur pup, from some fellow in Wyoming. Looking at mixing things up, seeing what I like. Also I’d like to find a Patterdale or Jagdterrier for blood tracking and killing vermin (gophers, rats), whatever else - I manage a ranch and have quite the rodent problem.
Dog men are harder to come by than they used too. I’d like to get out with folks but everyone I knew that ran bears sold everything off and stopped running anything altogether. I see there are some other people from California out there and just want to thank ya’ll for keeping the sport alive.