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lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:52 pm

Blue the main ingredient for being successful at anything is “want to”. You or me or our dogs or horses or whatever, can be built the best, have the most ability, etc., but it doesn’t matter if the want to isn’t there. I have chosen kids to be on my team in select baseball that maybe weren’t quite as good as some others because they had want to where the better player was living on natural gifts or the good fortune of more advanced exposure. Those want to kids are hungry so they will hang on every word and they will put in the extra work. Before you know it, want to has surpassed god given or the more fortunate. I say this to say, your hunger and want to will get you where you need to be. The great ones seem to never quit getting better even after they’ve lost a step. It’s because they never quit learning. I always taught my boys, you can learn something from everybody, even if it’s what not to do.

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:05 am

Hallelujah!! First guy that I went lion hunting with taught ma an absolute ton....of what not to do!!

I have been running dogs since I was a kid,bird dogs beagles, or big game hounds its the same, as law stated if you want it it will happen. Just like raising your kids its repetition and consistency. Add in going to the woods more often than every other weekend and those potlickers will make you proud!

Blues Boys · Post by **Blues Boys** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:47 pm

That's all very reassuring fellas! We are doing our best to have the dogs at least "in" the woods daily and we have been training 2-4 days a week. Training for us consists of following scent trails via the Mike Leonard method and roading the dogs. The dogs have been riding in the tuck weekly as well. Are there any tips anyone has about training? We are working these dogs into yote hounds just like ma and pa

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:38 pm

One thing I always tell people is they are dogs not people. IF they were a person they would be a kid with severe ADHD. Keep things short and sweet. Don’t let them get bored. Reassure them with praise for doing right and when they do wrong ignore and steer them towards right and then reward. That usually saves you from having to trash break too. Stop the lesson when they are still energetic and performing well and wanting more.

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:00 pm

Had a hell of a day, and had to do some ignoring the mutts for doing wrong...walked in to them slick treed, never looked at a one of them just started looping and found the out track where they lost it in a herd of beef cows, got um lined out and next time I caught up they had themselves a nice lion. Didn't help I dumped the box, all 8 dogs I had half being male and half females. I usually don't run all of them together but figured I'm trying to get them in shape so what the hell. Had a wicked storm roll in snowing sideways and blowing id say 40 miles an hour after I turned out but we still managed.

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 2:09 am

Sounds like good handling to me. Sideways snow doesn’t sound appealing to me.

I had a guy call the other day that has a high fence. He said they had killed all the hogs out of it except for a sow and shoat, could I come catch them. Those type of hogs are harder to catch than the free range hogs, to me. I said yes and and as luck would have it we caught two tush hogs and were on a third one when I caught my beat up dogs. I was very proud of these soft soup hounds. They haven’t been out but for one quick hunt since bow season started. The guy was super impressed with them and he knows dogs so that made me feel good and made the dogs smile too.

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:57 pm

https://youtu.be/9_enlYrmqBU?si=ILty0tuKSsNguXZo yesterday's adventure

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:51 pm

Awesome video

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:04 am

Found where a tom and a female had been breeding and feeding on a mule deer for 2 days, at some point something went sideways and the tom killed the female, at first I thought it was a young tom dead but after further investigation it was a female I caught 4 days ago about 500 yards from where she was dead in the Creek.

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:35 am

I guess he didn’t want to share no matter what she did for him!

It’s pretty neat to hear that she was still in that same area and didn’t leave. It makes me wonder how many times you could tree the same cat in the same area before it decided to relocate or abandon the area. All my life I’ve heard deer hunters talk about how dogs run deer and make them move etc etc. It’s a bunch of bs. If they run them regularly then yes they are going to move naturally. I know of ole country dogs that run out and chase any and everything they come across. I’ve seen them run deer multiple times and it’s the same deer every time. We have bayed the same hog several times and each time we find it it’s within a few

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lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:39 am

(I cut myself off)

Yards of where he was bedding the previous time. I took me about three years to catch this one particular boar hog. He was big, mean, and really smart. He did make a mistake one time though! I’m sure that was a real interesting scene to see.

Have you ever seen or even heard of that happening before?

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Rowdy Fitz · Post by **Rowdy Fitz** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:13 pm

Law- I ran the same female 4 times last year, in December. She was hunting the same bowl because the deer had moved in there, then she was going up through the same saddle to bed. I treed her twice, bayed her in a rock pile once and then trailed her out of the area after Christmas.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:57 pm

I catch the same cats repeatedly in the same area. Had my first 2 cat day of the season today caught a small bobcat early then on the way home found a completely snowed over lion track and got lucky and the 2 young dogs went and had it up in about 2 miles.

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:31 am

That’s cool. I’ve always heard about how big those cats range was so I wondered about how much pressure they would hang around for. It makes sense that they stayed because of the food source being present. Have y’all noticed that they are any easier or any more difficult each time you get on them?

That’s good that those young dogs stepped up and did so well!

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:35 am

Had another 2 cat day, really cool to look up the mountain and the dogs have 2 lions 10 yards apart. Even cooler and going back to catching cats repeatedly, I turned loose 100 yards from where I found 3 little kittens that didn't even have their eyes open yet a year ago. The dogs had 2 60ish pound siblings treed and it really made my day that I was looking at 2 lions I held in my hands as tiny kittens. The little female jumped out of the pecker pole of a tree she had climbed, we were at 9300ft in elevation so options were limited. The dogs roll down after her and when the dogs left the little male got rather pissy with me and the day I found them one of them was the same way

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