My First Bobcat.

[mtncurhunter]

After guiding other guys for 4 yrs i finally decided it was time to take a cat. A couple reasons lead me to taking this one. First it nearly killed my favorite dog and second because this cat has been the biggest challenge we have ever had. We chased it 4 different times for over 40 miles total always ending in the rocks. This day my dogs caught it in the rocks and my female took a pretty bad beating but I put an end to it.

[Deer Slayer]

Nice cat. Dogs eye ok? I was wondering why I havent seen any pics of you and your hounds yet. Good job. Matt.

[Marshall]

very nice cat, and you have to love it when you can catch up to one of the rockpile legands. 2 weeks ago my female got the same treatment from a big bob. I took her home and started her on antibiotics right off the bat and ran a corse for 7 days. She had one big hole/cut on her throat and all the same claw and punture wounds on her face as your female. I didnt stitch or staple her face or throat up, I just put some blue coat on the wounds and left them open to drain. That worked well and she didnt even swell up and shes all healed up now. Hope your dog will be ok. My female and yours could have been twins 2 weeks ago. Great job on the cat!

[chilcotin hillbilly]

Thats a nice cat to boot, I hope your dog recovers quickly.

[mtncurhunter]

We had a good season and got some nice cats. Being it was so short I was not at home on the computer. 2 weeks ago my same female got chewed up by a tom they caught on the ground. Out of 4 dogs 2 got chewed up but the white one was the worst. I had antibiotics on hand because I know how she is. She already looks alot better since it happened last thursday, but she is going to have some more battle scars.

[BEAR HUNTER]

Sure like the looks of your dogs. What line of Mountain curs are they out of. Do they have any hound blood in em?

[mtncurhunter]

No hound blood that I know of. The black brindle dog is a Busher dog, the brindle and white dog is heavy Streak, and the white headed one is just local breeding with no papers but I believe she is streak and kemmerer.

[BEAR HUNTER]

How do you like those streak bred dogs? What kind of nose do they seem to have? Open or silent on track?

[mtncurhunter]

The brindle one is pretty good. She is real gamey, probably not the best nose of the three but will not quit and very intelligent. All three of the dogs are open on a hot track and silent cold trailers. The biggest problem I have with any of them though is the brindle one, her feet are terrible. They don't hold up very well at all.

These dogs can all pretty much handle a 5 or 6 hr old cold track on snow which they probably use their eyes as much as there nose. Any older than that and they don't show much interest.

[BEAR HUNTER]

Thats kind of what I expected. I have a 1/2 trigg 1/2 leopard cur pup. He is the same way. He is way fast and smart but doesnt have the nose I was hoping for.

[foxcat]

i would say they have just the right nose on em. any older than that and it aint worth runnin around here. might as well go down the road a ways and strike a hotter track. good work nice dogs