Who has a hound story

[wabi]

Many years ago when my parents were starting their life together and I was only a toddler (3-4 years old) my father had several fox hounds. One was a nasty dispositioned blue tic who tolerated having his food bowl filled but any other approach by a human brought snarls and snaps.

One day I came in the back door screaming and crying and my mother said my face was covered with blood. Her first thought was that the hound had injured me severely. She grabbed me, rushed to the sink, wet a washcloth and began cleaning the blood off my face. No wounds??????
She asked me what happened and I told her, "the dog snapped at me, so I bit him!"
She went out and the hound had a set of teeth marks in his nose!

After that incident I could inflict any indignation on that poor old dog and never once did it ever try to bite me again!

[dutchhunter]

thats showing them whos boss !!@!! i like it DUTCH

[philman]

Killed 100's of cottontail over these hounds...Dixie got out of the kennel last year and was picked up two days later 11km away! She can climb our 8ft chain link kennel fence!

Great beagles Philman! I may be a hound owner but you are truly a Houndsman! Goodness knows they try to go under my 4-foot fence, but thankfully none of mine has mastered going OVER the wire!

Thanks bud.....Beagles have been in my family Since the 80's...so I've been around them my entire life..... Rabbit dawgs only though. I have never tryed hunting deer with full sized hounds but I bet it's a blast. So jealous!

[philman]

Wabi ........thats hilarous!

[georgiaboy]

Some of my fondest memories as a child is hunting rabbit's with our pack of beagle hounds. Can't beat the beagle in my opinion!!

[ninepointer]

Wabi,

Its a good thing that the hound had his shots and didn't catch anything from ya!

[ninepointer]

About 6 years ago, Ross and Mike, two of our deer camp’s doggers, had gotten into a particularly nasty part of a hunt we call The Hardwood. A violent storm had uprooted the trees and created a nearly impassable tangle of roots, limbs and trunks.

It was in this thick stuff that the two fellas heard the hounds start snarling and yelping. So Ross and Mike rushed in to separate the hounds and discovered that the commotion was coming inside a hole in the ground, located at the base of an upturned tree. The guys later described the hole as being about the size of a steering wheel.

As Ross and Mike stood there trying to figure out what to do, the two hounds bolted out the hole and ran back to camp. Mike says to Ross, “They must have chased a rabbit down there.” So what does Ross do but poke his head in to have a look, and that’s when he found himself almost nose to nose with a black bear!!! The way Mike tells it, Ross sprang backwards like Spiderman, except that he landed on his arse, just as Momma Bear popped out, followed by her two cubs!!! Luckily for our two hunters, the bears took off for parts unknown!

[bcmuledeer]

Wow! Do you guys and gals have some of the cutest and most beautiful dogs(hounds) I have ever seen! Not to many in the great white north up here! To bad they look so awesome!
Some of the guys talk about wolves, never underestimate them, they will use a bitch in heat to lure dogs to the pack. In one area just out of town, no one can keep any male dogs around, interesting enough even when nuttered they still will check out the wolf in heat!
Wolves are very smart and wil try to elimate anything that looks like an easy meal or competition, and man are they tuff!
My brother shot one with his 300 wsm. It enter the wolves eye and did not exit the body, straight on shot. It looked huge, but when weighed it only was 65lbs.
So please guys, your dogs are beautiful and wolves are bad to the bone.
I always found it wierd that cougars arn't more aggressive to dogs!
Man them pups are fine looking! He do they handle the cold?

[bcmuledeer]

Sorry double post!
Might as well give you a dog story! my mom loves the little tea kettle dogs, the wee little guys. They cost about 500.00. My dad who loves big dogs and has never paid for one, bought a little pom for my mom on their 25 anniversary , 250.00, thought he got a good deal, I did mention we are Dutch!
One day while on holidays, 9 years later, my mom was taking the pom out of the 5th wheel in the mourning, the dog, trixie, jumped from her arms, landed and broke it's front leg! They had to fly the dog to Regina to a specialist to try fix it. It didn't work and the leg was amputated.
Dad called the dog tripod from then!
Tripod lived for another 3 years and was never slowed down by the missing leg!
About 10 years latter finally dad told us what the cost of flight and surgery was!
$1600.00!!!!!! the tough Dutch old trk shop owner did have a soft spot for tripod! I think we are dogs best friends!!!!