Hunting dogs around the world

[rdb]

Here's my Catahoula, Lucy..smartest, best damn dog I ever had...she's old now, but in her day...Wife says we'll never own another kind of dog!

Plus, a typical Southern trio (just for laughs...no insults meant...remember I live down here)

[dewagumo]

I have japanese akita inu, English cocker spaniel and a shepherd belge.cocker and akita have a good hunting instinct.

http://www.akita-shinsen-en.com/

[oldtimer]

In Sweden moose hunting is big business. When hunting moose you need a dog that barks the moose to a stand still, and the hunter sneaks up to the moose and ( hopingly) gets a clean shot. The breed mostly used is named Jämthund, an old breed specially bred for moosehunting. Did you know that 83 000 ( eightythree thousand) moose were killed during the 2008 hunting season in Sweden ?

A pic of a JÄMTHUND

Edited September 18, 2009 by oldtimer

[oldtimer]

This was my late dog Jack ( left me aug -08) a Bayerishe gebirg Schweisshund ( Bavarian mountain tracking dog) which I used for tracking wounded game ( roedeer and moose).

( In Sweden you are not allowed to hunt hoofed game without a dog especially trained for tracking wounded game)

He also had the ability to bark at moose so I used him for active moose hunting.

The speciality for this breed is tracking. Once he managed to track down a wounded bull moose 27 hours after the shot. Two hours job. I miss Jack very much as he had a great personality and was a very good hunting partner!

Pics of Jack himself, and Jack barking at a moose cow back of my house a fine summer day

/ Knut

Edited September 18, 2009 by oldtimer

[dustin29]

Yes Ray coon hunting happens at night? We used to hunt in corn fields that had been recently chopped. We would let the dogs out of the truck and they would pick up a hot track and the chase would start. The chase ussually only went a mile at the most, and then the coon would run up a tree and the dogs would jump around the bottom of the tree barking, to let us know they had done their job. The type of bark when they were tracking was different to the treeing bark. Coon hunting is very exciting.

[terrahyd]

In this part of texas we use ridge back of the 125lb class. Lotts of big wild hogs .....ours looks like a lion , loves kids

[UKRay]

That picture of Jack and the moose is something else, Oldtimer! I really like the look of the Bayerishe gebirg Schweisshund. A 'no messing' sort of a dog.

The ridgebacks we see over here are the Rhodesian Ridgebacks bred for lion hunting in Africa, Terrahyd - is this the same breed?

Okay,Dustin29, so you chased the coon for a mile and it ran up a tree - now how do you get the coon out of the tree (shoot it?) and what do you do with it then?

Ray

[dustin29]

Yeah we shoot them out, then skin them and sell the hide. Or sometimes we let them live to run another night.

[terrahyd]

That picture of Jack and the moose is something else, Oldtimer! I really like the look of the Bayerishe gebirg Schweisshund. A 'no messing' sort of a dog.

The ridgebacks we see over here are the Rhodesian Ridgebacks bred for lion hunting in Africa, Terrahyd - is this the same breed?

Okay,Dustin29, so you chased the coon for a mile and it ran up a tree - now how do you get the coon out of the tree (shoot it?) and what do you do with it then?

Ray

YES THE SAME BREED AS YOURS . OURS SLEEPS WITH A CAT RAISED TOGATHER FROM BIRTH. ITS HIS [CHU TOY] DON"T EVEN THINK ABOUT SPANKING ONE OF THE GRANDKIDS .....HE AIN"T HAVE"N ANY. LATER.doc

[oldtimer]

That picture of Jack and the moose is something else, Oldtimer! I really like the look of the Bayerishe gebirg Schweisshund. A 'no messing' sort of a dog.

The ridgebacks we see over here are the Rhodesian Ridgebacks bred for lion hunting in Africa, Terrahyd - is this the same breed?

Okay,Dustin29, so you chased the coon for a mile and it ran up a tree - now how do you get the coon out of the tree (shoot it?) and what do you do with it then?

Ray

Yes Ray, no messing around with a Bayerischer dog, very tough little dogs. They are like Dr jekyll and mr Hyde. Jack was the most lovely creature to have as a pet indoors, the kindest dog you can imagine - and when working, a real killer. If a wounded deer was on the run I just let him free and the deer was sent to the evergreen pastures in no time at all. One of my friends had a Bayerische bitch, about 24 kilos of dog, and she caught a wounded bull moose by his upper lip ( too big to kill!) and held him. The bull was shot with the dog hanging from the snout of the moose.

Jack was tested and approved for tackling wounded bear too. Who´s afraid of a big angry bear , even if you weigh only 25 kilos?

Edited September 19, 2009 by oldtimer