One thing that is very important is to tone (ask them before you tell them to stop with the electricity0 Dewey

I tone train my dogs when they are young 3 t0 4 months old with a check cord and treats. I do not shock them until they know what good game is what they are to hunt. Some dogs take very little heat to bend them. I have bred these dogs for years most are soft they will not take much abuse either with ...

I hear finished dogs or broke dogs I have hunted my on dogs for 61 years treed my fist bear and bobcat with just my dogs 60 years ago. I believe most dogs need to be pulled out of a pack at 8 to 10 years old. they can catch cats on their own but will hurt your success in the pack. a finished dog is ...

Idacurs give me a call i Have hunted oregon washington Nevada Utah wyoming California Arkansas and Texas Bobcats and Lion. Treed both in most states but no bobcats just fox and lion in Arizona. I have started off the box bobcats in California desert near the Nevada line in July could not complete ...

As far as telling how old a bobcat track is that a dog can trail is totally depends on the weather conditions. I have seen dogs that could trail and open on a 10 to 24 hour old track and not on a 15 minute old track. How do I know that the track was 24 in snow conditions I have trailed bobcats twice ...

it took me years to realize that most of the piss bushes were not coyotes but cat piss bushes. I did not realize that they were not coyote bushes until i stated hunted in eastern oregon in snow. Dogs will strike a bobcat bush and go pee on it thinking it was coyote i caused my on problem. I think ...

Gary this is a story told to me by a man that i new well in his old age. Joe was working in the logging woods when they put the first bounty on them here in Oregon for a $1 a day.he started hunting lions them and made a living at it and went into ranching. I sat by a camp fire and listen to him a ...

I finished a rig dog once al you had a grandson I think i decided that if she opened on the rig that she should be able to trail it. Was I ever wrong I finished her to the point she would not open on anything. Heres what I think dogs open on the faintest scent hair trigger and jump down to see ...

rigging bobcats is a long topic all of the responses that I read i think are right depending on how you hunt and the type of dog where and when you hunt. Demoss in washington was the first that I heard rigging bear as a teenage I hunted with a top bear hunter in western oregon his dogs just started ...

When i was just a kid and coon hunted from my house i has a lad that went we me and my two hounds she did great did not open on track but was the best tree dog I had. the weather has been nice out here very little snow up high which allow me to hunt areas that i usually can not get to. I hunt mostly ...

There are a lot of variables. I do not believe the lead dogs or fasted dog is the best he can be the worst. when I talk I am talking bobcat dogs they are the hardest to catch consistently in my opinion. scent conditions are a big factor different conditions will cause different reaction from the ...

Like it has been said you can not do than meat but you need organ meat for a complete mean. Some fish is great also.

All dogs need to be hunted hard and handled right to turn out. Everybody has there own expectation as to what that is and that's OK that dog that they love is perfect for them. My expectation are pretty high I have had some great bobcat dogs which all dogs for me have a high yard stick to compare to ...

Perk I like what you say about people different expectation on what a dog is we all have different ideas and bred for different things. I Was born in Arkansas but raised in Oregon. My first hunting with hounds was with my uncles and cousins there fox, coon, squirrel and rabbits. I hunted a lot here ...

If you have had the chance to read dave bobcat book i think he did a great job of describing different levels of hunters. Look at the professional basket ball players do you think he would get the job if he could not make a basket. we all walk to a different pace and that's ok. I have sent more time ...