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Cut what seemed like a nice cat on fresh snow. I turned my male on the track right at daylight and he trailed it about 300 yards only opening two times, the track started gaining elevation and it sounded like it was warming up. I followed their trail til we hit a skid road and he really picked up speed from there. I heard what sounded like a locate bawl then bayed hard like he was looking at him. I hiked my fat butt to the top of the rock outcrop where I could hear him hammering when my son turned my two 6 month old pups loose 400 yards behind me. They blazed past me just in time to hear my male start moving the track again and the pups soon caught up with him. Just as as they started heading out into some roadless country, my batteries died in the garmin so I had to wait for my son and friend to get to me with extra batteries. While I was waiting for em I backtracked the dogs and cat to see what happened, and found where the cat had bayed up on a sheer rocky point then jumped off probably when heard me coming. Finally got batteries changed and realized I had to backtrack a mile and a half back to the truck cause dogs had moved out 2 more miles on me onto private property. When I got there they were right above the road and circling another rocky pinnacle, just then a doe popped out on the road right in front of them, and I thought they switched to trash on me, so I got ready to push the button when they made a sharp left and kept on trailing. I snuck up behind them to verify what they were running and found three dog tracks right on top of the cat track. Sounded like were about ready to tree when the property owner pulled up to kick me off the property and I hope I didn't mess the dogs up by toning them to get em back. Two came to me right away, but had to chase down one of the pups. The dogs don't have much in the way of toenails left and they're walking a little stiff legged, better heal up quick cause snows a comin

I wouldnt worry about toning them but wouldnt do it often on six month old pups unless theyre treeing plenty of cats. It must have been the day for the cats as i had one soundly thrash me to. And my dog was doing everything as good as a guy can ask sometimes you just get whipped. Ofcourse i think i've contributed to this cats education before and will again

Yeah, I may have run this cat before on bare ground and not treed him, but dang if he didn't kick our butts yesterday. Couldn't really have asked anything more of the dogs yesterday, especially those pups hangin in there for the duration.

Sounds like your dogs are coming along well. Did you find the ones that you lost down here? Andy

We got beat up pretty bad on Sunday! 2.5 miles straight up and straight down through valley after valley. Damn cat never stopped and finally pulled the dogs off 4.5 hours after we started to get a friend home. Darin we'll get together in the next couple weeks and both burn off some fat!

Andy, yes I did tanks...they ended up at my sister in laws place down the river, go figure. I'm pretty happy with how those pups are doing. They split treed with another dog on a lion race the other day.

Jeremy, you bet! Maybe we can actually walk to a tree instead of listening to the dogs leaving the country on us.

Yeah I hope so! Man that next day at work was rough!!!! I sure hope we can keep out of trouble this time haha!

We ran a lion like that too. He was on a mission and never slowed down to hunt or look back. 5 miles later we pulled off