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I know if you hunt hounds long enough this has happened to you .What does your DOG do if there is an agressive dog at the tree ? Not what you do but your dog .

for the most part my dogs back off, but i've had a few that love too sit under the tree and bark, those are the dogs that don't start stuff but they will fight with another dog if the other dogs starts it, but we don't have anydogs that will start anything, we take care of that, and we don't hunt with to many people that do.

Well Einstein it is really relative to what your dog is.

Don't get me wrong I am not down on you but this question gets me by the throat!

It's ok to seperate you from the dogs on what you do but to understand you have to look at it from your prospective.


What would you do? I mean you are in the grocery line and late for home. Some guy pushes you aside and says get the hell out of my way wimp I got places to go and people to see. Well if you were rational and level you would probably back off and say this guy has a problem but why let it bother my day. Ok he pays and leaves and that is it. But if you are a little more Irish like me you would most likely step up and say listen I don't appreciate that and you took my place. And then if he turned around and fired back telling me Bow Wow Wow Wow! what and ass I was I would do my level best to whoop his ass quick. So dogs are no differnt but in this situation where drive and tension is maxed out you do not want to throw an aggresive tree dog intop the mix. It is the brew of trouble . I ask those that want to hunt with me and put dogs down. Say how are your dogs on the tree? Oh they are nice as pie and don't growl or fight. I say well good mine neither but if mine do I will pull this 41 magnum out and blow their brains out yours or mine. You ok with that? Ahh Eeer? well that old spotted dog will face bark some. Ok thanks put his ass in the box if you want to hunt him next week. If not you run the track I will go to another place. It is as easy or as hard as that.

This is one area where I have little tolerance and I have lost some hunting buddies over it. Had one man awhile back come back to me 20 years later and tell me, sorry it was old Jewell that started that tree fight afer all. I said well too bad you missed out on a lot of hunting but PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTUCTION AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL. See ya have a nice life.

Geez Mike ,you kinda scared the shit out of me !

Mike Leonard wrote: I ask those that want to hunt with me and put dogs down. Say how are your dogs on the tree? Oh they are nice as pie and don't growl or fight. I say well good mine neither but if mine do I will pull this 41 magnum out and blow their brains out yours or mine. You ok with that? Ahh Eeer? well that old spotted dog will face bark some. Ok thanks put his ass in the box if you want to hunt him next week. If not you run the track I will go to another place. It is as easy or as hard as that.

I laughed so hard on that one Mike I nearly started choking. Amen! And that is why ol' Ike doesn't mix dogs, but if I adopt your methods (carrying a .41 magnum) and shooting any dogs that start shit with mine I'd be up for gang banging man............

roflmao!
ike

So Mike ,your saying then that i should'nt take my dogs to the grocery store ?Just kidden , hope you don't mind but i'm gonna start using your line .

grouse wrote:I know if you hunt hounds long enough this has happened to you .What does your DOG do if there is an agressive dog at the tree ? Not what you do but your dog .

I run a few different bloodlines and their crosses. and they all behave differently to aggressive dogs to a extent. however all at some point will respond sooner or later. most will take face barking and some growling. if a dog jumps them they will fight back usually. the difference is how hard they will fight and the seriousness of their intent. one line will kill another dog and if they are seperated can NEVER be hunted,boxed,kenneled etc. with that particular hound as they will jump it at first chance. this type could never be competition hunted with other peoples dogs unless all the hounds didn't fight. I have no problem with these hounds and honestly they are some of the very best cat dogs on a whole. they can and are kenneled in large groups fed together etc. no problems and are very easy to discipline. I like handling them and they have a better personality to deal with as a whole. I have others that won't fight another dog under almost any circumstance and they are slower to train don't respond to commands as well are more likly to go trailing on their own as pups with out regard to what the pack is doing and end up getting lost and making it into a dog search. so different strains/hounds are called different for a reason and i believe a houndsman should have those hounds he is satisfied with. don't let someone else tell you what your hounds faults or values are unless you asked their oppinion in the first place! you spend or should spend a hell of a lot more time working with them then anyone else. I could never fault a hound for defending itself. I won't have a hound that will start a fight . dog fighters aren't usually really game minded hounds in the first place and often are tree freaks.

i think catahoulas and maybe BMCs get a bad rap from "houndsmen" that don't know what their dogs do. you know the kind whose dogs are "super gritty" & always chewed up but none of the bites are big enough to come from a 150# + bear. so when a cur dog or any other dog finishes a fight ole wonderful started they shoot the new curdog. don't get me wrong there are some cur dogs that are fight pickers just like any breed but i think the cur dog reps for it are BS mostly.

Pops wrote:i think catahoulas and maybe BMCs get a bad rap from "houndsmen" that don't know what their dogs do. you know the kind whose dogs are "super gritty" & always chewed up but none of the bites are big enough to come from a 150# + bear. so when a cur dog or any other dog finishes a fight ole wonderful started they shoot the new curdog. don't get me wrong there are some cur dogs that are fight pickers just like any breed but i think the cur dog reps for it are BS mostly.

don't know where the cur remark came from, but i have a Mountian cur, nicest dog i own, never starts a fight, and very rarely even fights in a fight, but there was one dog, that you couldn't keep them two in the same side of the box, but it was always the walker who started, not saying anything agianst walkers, just that that was the only dogs that he would really fight with.