Missing Blackmouth Cur, SE Texas
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:51 pm
My dog Swimmer was stolen from my property or adjacent property on January 14, this year. My property is in San Jacinto Co., Tx between Willis, New Waverly and Coldspring, and is within the borders of the Sam Houston National Forest. I have had 8 signs up along roads near my property and flyers posted with vets in all three of the towns mentioned above. The signs were printed by FastSigns, they have a protective coating applied and the signs have proved to withstand wind and rain. They have been posted for 7 months now. I searched the woods and roadways and have worked with several people in the area, but Swimmer has not turned up. Unlike my other curs, Swimmer would roll over and show submissiveness to strangers. He was hunting with 2 other curs before dawn and did not return. He is easy to i.d., he is a 2 yr old intact blackmouth cur with an inverted mask. He has a white mask instead of a black mask. He also has a distinct scar.
My property is surrounded by Foster Timberland property where there are 3 related hunting clubs. Here is the middle part of the signs/flyers I've posted:
Here's a picture of Swimmer in a creek. His coat is fawn colored, and his muzzle and underside are white:
And here's a picture of him hunting with his dad and brother. All three dogs are shown at the bottom of the image pulling on a boar the dogs and I got on public land around 4 in the morning. Swimmer is in the middle, and his white mask is shown.
This boar stuck my gyp. It had 7 inch cutters (see below). My gyp is fine now, and still hunts, but believe me, cut collars and cut vests will not keep your dog from being stuck. They are cut resistant, not puncture proof.
The dog at the back is Blackie. He was taller and weighed more than dad shown there. About 2 weeks after this photo, my dogs found a large boar bedded down in a hiddy hole inside a large briar patch, late in the afternoon. Black stood in the boar's doorway barking and wouldn't move. He got hit so hard his stomach herniated. I got overworried and took him to a 24 hour vet I did not know. They repaired the hernia and sent him home the next day with 6 different meds but told me he could not keep water down. Black died that night. It broke my heart.
My dogs love to hunt. I'm so glad I spent so much time in the woods with Blackie and Swimmer. I still hunt at night, but I carry a Savage Hog Hunter in .308. My hunting revolver is backup. My dogs found this fat boar in a marsh hidding in 7-ft tall reed grass this past Monday night. My dogs aren't catch dogs. I have to go in and take the hogs with a brush gun or revolver. It's risky. I do it because my dogs were born to hunt this way and love doing it. I want to get Swimmer back.
If someone can help me get Swimmer back, there's a $100 reward and I'll also give this mounted boar trophy. These are from the boar that stuck my gyp. The cutters are 7 inches long.
My property is surrounded by Foster Timberland property where there are 3 related hunting clubs. Here is the middle part of the signs/flyers I've posted:
Here's a picture of Swimmer in a creek. His coat is fawn colored, and his muzzle and underside are white:
And here's a picture of him hunting with his dad and brother. All three dogs are shown at the bottom of the image pulling on a boar the dogs and I got on public land around 4 in the morning. Swimmer is in the middle, and his white mask is shown.
This boar stuck my gyp. It had 7 inch cutters (see below). My gyp is fine now, and still hunts, but believe me, cut collars and cut vests will not keep your dog from being stuck. They are cut resistant, not puncture proof.
The dog at the back is Blackie. He was taller and weighed more than dad shown there. About 2 weeks after this photo, my dogs found a large boar bedded down in a hiddy hole inside a large briar patch, late in the afternoon. Black stood in the boar's doorway barking and wouldn't move. He got hit so hard his stomach herniated. I got overworried and took him to a 24 hour vet I did not know. They repaired the hernia and sent him home the next day with 6 different meds but told me he could not keep water down. Black died that night. It broke my heart.
My dogs love to hunt. I'm so glad I spent so much time in the woods with Blackie and Swimmer. I still hunt at night, but I carry a Savage Hog Hunter in .308. My hunting revolver is backup. My dogs found this fat boar in a marsh hidding in 7-ft tall reed grass this past Monday night. My dogs aren't catch dogs. I have to go in and take the hogs with a brush gun or revolver. It's risky. I do it because my dogs were born to hunt this way and love doing it. I want to get Swimmer back.
If someone can help me get Swimmer back, there's a $100 reward and I'll also give this mounted boar trophy. These are from the boar that stuck my gyp. The cutters are 7 inches long.