I’d rather be around most dogs than their owner !
I’d rather be around most dogs than their owner !
So true.
My avatar is at hunting camp with part of our thundering herd of wiener dogs. They don't bother anything, and they come in extremely handy when you have a tough blood trail. Turn the wiener dogs on it, and you'll find your deer in a hurry.
Wiener dog rabbit hunts are a hoot, too. They'll run rabbits like a beagle.
Man, I wouldn’t be able to keep steady knowing a wiener dog was running a rabbit my way. I would be giggling the entire time.
My 12 year old thinks he's a Plott. He'll run anything regardless of size. These days, short bursts of about, 50 yards is all he's got in him.
Pretty much. You do realize that they were originally bred to crawl down in holes and drag out angry badgers? They look funny, but they're tough little fellers.
That's the attitude. Weiner dogs are like Jack Russells, not many of them die from old age. They are too bad to attack things that are a lot bigger than them.
Indeed... we have had two wiener dogs and three jack russells through the years. The number of squirrels, chipmunks, lizards, and snakes that have been brought back to the door has been astounding. I did witness one of the jacks and one of the dachshunds fight a opossum one night. Each had one end of him and they were literally trying to rip him in half. I was laughing too hard to pull them off.
Only one of them died young, and that was from cancer. I don’t know how the rest lived so long.
The last Jack Russell I had was a mass of scar tissue from one end to the other by the time he died at 14. Almost all tooth scars from groundhogs, coons, possums, and other critters.
The wiener dog I have now, I got when he was about 7 weeks old. He would nearly fit in your shirt pocket he was so little. A couple nights after I brought him home, I took him outside to pee. There was a big possum sitting on the porch eating cat food. That little feller, who was about a tenth the size of the possum, went running over there and clamped down on the possum's tail. The possum took off down the porch steps, across the yard, and through the bushes dragging lil' Arlo, who was still clamped down on the end of his tail. I laughed until my ribs hurt.
Probably the same members that hear a dog barking and think they have ran all the deer off !
Who wants to go to deer camp for peace and quiet and have to listen to someones dog bark all day?
I love animals and dogs in particular. However, I don't want to be inconvenienced by the irresponsibility of other dog owners in Camp. I've had to listen to whining barking, barking dogs tied up at night, and in the woods while I'm hunting. The same dogs get untied after the owner gets back in Camp and go from camper to camper looking for handouts, marking everything that is laying around, and taking a dump who knows where. I would consider a $200 pair of hunting boots useless forever once I step in dog poo. I once slung a fist-sized rock towards a lab that was just hiking his leg to pee on my climber/pack that was leaning up against a tree. Not trying to hit him, but trying to keep him away from my equipment. One second later would have been too late. The owner did not like it, but I would rather have him mad at me than have a dog pee on my deer hunting equipment. We had another member who thought nothing of taking his dogs for a run behind his four wheeler to go 'check on his stands'.
I got out of that deal and I'm in charge of my own lease now. Dogs are not an issue now because there are no dogs in Camp.
I am a Club President and have some folks extremely against this. Bringing your pet to camp is not an issue with me! Comments please....