About thursday Night I realiazed it was a 3 day weekend, So we kind did a Spur of the moment trip down to visit and hunt with our friends down south.
Saturday, we ended up with one fairly early in the day, it was a short race, Dogs really really put the heat on it. We figure it must have ducked into a bush or something because we were waiting for the locate when the Race turned back on heading right back down it's back track.. (Surprizingly none of the dogs hung a tree or anything on that trick.) Race came right to us and we were expecting to watch it cross the road, however the cat figured it better find high Ground pretty quick. That was the best race that our two packs dogs have ever worked together on. Smaller Female, we got some photo's hung out and enjoyed the tree with the dogs and hunted hard until dark to get a second cat going, but two cat days weren't in the cards for us this weekend.
1by1 the dogs started lining out again, and crossed a Creek that, It was this creek that dropped some of the slower dogs out of the race, I could tell by the garmin that My Male almost wanted to start Treeing here which I quickly corrected..
Well the three dogs that made it through were really working this cat out of the country and just about out of hearing. According to the garmin, Each one leading the race and finding the loose, at one point or another, really neat to watch them all work hard together, and take turns leading. Hour and a half later we found a way into the Creek they were in. I was still thinking it was a Bay job rather then a Tree, Because I just didn't think it was a cat. After wading across a river, and Crawling up a steep brushy, rocky hillside, I was pleasant to see a wet cat in the tree. It was a Good race and I was pretty pround of my little female for staying in on this one to the end. to Brushy to get any Camera shots at the Tree. I asked don to take this Cat for maddie (I didn't want to skin it, and didn't have any need for the hide, I'll let don do that work!
) It was a tom, and 17 lbs, Not huge by any means, but it was by far the hardest running cat maddie has ever caught, and I could say she was in the right part of the race from the begining. But here was our valentines Day cat.
We figure there was a kill in there somewhere, Because once they got that area figured out, it was a Jumped race from that point, there was section that the cat ran the road, Penny Figured it out and after that, The cat was loosing ground quick. I tried to get my Male in on it, a couple times but the race was just moving too fast, I found a spot that I could but 30 seconds after he started in towards them, I heard the locate and Tree.. (I probably just helped reenforce my tree problems with him, and Had I known it then, I wouldn't have turned him into it.)
Anyways, About 1/2 hour into the tree, we noticed a couple other dogs show up. Don knew him, Dane showed up 20 minutes later, apparently his dogs came in from another unit to join the fun.. We left this cat also.
. If you guys know of anything, especially from this line, shoot me a P.M. Thanks.