Hunting Dogs!!! Post your pics & stories!!!
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Londonshooter
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Yes, indeed. I think it is a 6$ license per dog. I've licensed my pudelpointer in the past when I used her to assist in pushes. She will recall to whistle so is much easier to handle than a big running hound. The times we did it did not result in a deer on the pole but my son got quite a surprise when the dog went past in front of him pushing a cow moose and two calves on the run. Then he heard me whistle and saw the dog leave them to return my way.
I have a PP as well. When he sees deer in the yard, he just locks up on point and does a stare down. When I give him release he'll chase the deer out of the yard and upon the whistle will beak off the chase and return. I've never met another PP but have found mine to be very biddable and eager to please.
Londonshooter
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- Location
- SW Ontario
Dagmar. Now at 8 y.o. 
Chuckbuster
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Londonshooter
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- SW Ontario
Londonshooter
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- SW Ontario
Pineridge for my girl. I seem to recall you got yours from Mike as well(?)
www.pineridgepudelpointers.net
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- The Conservative part of Ontario
Yes it is, but increasingly it's dying. Why? It's an expensive way to hunt anymore, (food bills, vet bills, fuel hunting for lost dogs) and stand hunters tend to get bigger and more deer. Still, it is by far the most exciting hunting for deer there is. As you know, I ran my own dogs years ago. The sound of the chase, the companionship of the dogs are hard to beat. Today, many consider it unsporting, as they sit over their bait piles. You need to try it, to really understand just how sporting it is, and how hard it is too. Deer were rarely shot on the run, most were walking, or even standing. There are tricks to stop a running deer, and they work most of the time. We hunted with Beagles. They didn't push the deer hard, and chases were shorter.
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Story from my old beagle. We were going to our cottage, one January. The road to it was not plowed in winter, and we used to walk across the lake on snowshoes. This one starry night, we were crossing, and the snow was so deep it was up to the beagles back, so she was walking along on our snowshoe trail.
My wife thought, it would be fine to take her off lead. I am thankful there were few if any cottagers on the lake that night. The instant she was off lead she was off like a shot, howling her head off, smelling something on the shore, probably deer. Bounding across the lake, only her head appearing above the snow. She was back in 20 minutes, happy and tired.
This kind of thing had happened before.
We let her loose on an island, she swam to the neighboring island for a howling fest. When she went quiet I went over to get her, and found her chowing down on Blueberries.
My wife let her loose on the North shore of Lake Superior, where the black spruce were she thought impenetrable. Not to the beagle, she was gone for 20 minutes.
Then there was the time she swam to shore from an island. That was on a back country canoe trip in lake Superior Provincial Park. She was gone for an hour that time.
My other hound, her pup, seemed to think that lilly pads were something to walk on, and stepped out of the canoe a couple of times.
I have had to hold the head of the old dog down low in the canoe to keep her from seeing moose a few times. She would go totally bonkers if she saw one. Not good when you are paddling close to a cow moose and her calf in Algonquin, or trying to get closer for a pic.
The two of them loved the canoe. All you had to do was thump it, and they'd be in. I took them down the lake in the canoe to start a chase a few times.
My wife thought, it would be fine to take her off lead. I am thankful there were few if any cottagers on the lake that night. The instant she was off lead she was off like a shot, howling her head off, smelling something on the shore, probably deer. Bounding across the lake, only her head appearing above the snow. She was back in 20 minutes, happy and tired.
This kind of thing had happened before.
We let her loose on an island, she swam to the neighboring island for a howling fest. When she went quiet I went over to get her, and found her chowing down on Blueberries.
My wife let her loose on the North shore of Lake Superior, where the black spruce were she thought impenetrable. Not to the beagle, she was gone for 20 minutes.
Then there was the time she swam to shore from an island. That was on a back country canoe trip in lake Superior Provincial Park. She was gone for an hour that time.
My other hound, her pup, seemed to think that lilly pads were something to walk on, and stepped out of the canoe a couple of times.
I have had to hold the head of the old dog down low in the canoe to keep her from seeing moose a few times. She would go totally bonkers if she saw one. Not good when you are paddling close to a cow moose and her calf in Algonquin, or trying to get closer for a pic.
The two of them loved the canoe. All you had to do was thump it, and they'd be in. I took them down the lake in the canoe to start a chase a few times.
