Wisconsin cats

[Dirty Jim]

Thanks Dan. Yeah we found tons of tracks its ridiculous how long it takes to draw. Yeah all my dogs go back to rock. I still have a dog out of the tom Maddie cross but he's 11 and pretty much retired. I'm trying to get him breed to a female I have that's out of Pat's spook dog and bills Maude female.

[Dan McDonough]

That Spook was quite a nice dog, I got to hunt with him 5 or 6 times on coon and was there for a good part of his early training when he was just starting. He reminded me of Sailor with more brains.

[Clyde Lawson]

It's tough being a catdog man in this state. Had a couple of three cat days and a couple two cat days. It was tough going until the crust came on. I had the most success on those deep snow days just pushing into the big spruce swamps on foot and cutting a line until I found a track but every one of those days were extremely exhausting. Coming in with knots in nearly all of my muscles was getting old. I kept doing it just to get in good condition by the end of it. The day after the first crust was absolutely insane as far as the amount of animal movement. To bad the dogs couldn't stay on top. That was sure hard on the dogs and it made the speed dogs completely useless for coyotes. I got some really good running on the days after the crust came on but only in thick pine plantations but if the cats decided to vacate the plantaions the race fell apart. A couple of those cats decided to climb but as everyone knows, it's a pain in the rump to spot cats in white pines and spruce trees most of the time. This was an interesting season for sure.

Hey Dan,

A FlIR thermal imaging device makes those cats stand out in the tallest of trees! Day or night, if it gives off heat--your going to spot it!
We have the same problem here in SE Oklahoma in trying to find the cat in those pine groves. Plus, the cat maybe be 30-40 yards from where he went up. They cross over like a gray squirrel!

Come see me when you can,

Clyde

[Dan McDonough]

I can't wait to see that! It doesn't look good for me to make it down this year but you never know. I'm hoping for an opening. We just finished getting 3/4 of our vehicles out of the shop so that has slowed me down some along with chasing kids.