squirrel dogs
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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squirrel dogs
this may be a topic for the small game area, but are there any guys here the use the treeing feist to hunt bushy tails?
We have for years. they are an awesome site to see in a cypress swamp in December.
We have for years. they are an awesome site to see in a cypress swamp in December.
#2
Nontypical Buck
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RE: squirrel dogs
My Arkansas cousin uses Rat Terriers that he raises for "fun". He does not have what some might call high-dollar blood line stiff, but everyone I have ever hunted behind will absolutely wear us out. He has two now . "Girl" and "Bosco" that hunt great.
Don't laugh ... my squirrel do is a Dachshund ... named Tex! He's a superb treeing dog (and a better blood trailer) and a slow walker, like me !! Problem is he is 13 and I'm guessing not many season, if even this next one left.
Don't laugh ... my squirrel do is a Dachshund ... named Tex! He's a superb treeing dog (and a better blood trailer) and a slow walker, like me !! Problem is he is 13 and I'm guessing not many season, if even this next one left.
#6
RE: squirrel dogs
We always use our Tennessee Mountain Curr named Patches. We didn't have to train her to tree a squirrle, she just does it because that is what her breed is designed to do. She is also a born killer, so we have to get to the squirrles before she does. On her own she has killed at least one of the following: squirrle, rabbit, opposum, ground hog, mole, chipmunk, and mouse. If it moves she pounces on it. Once whatever she has stops moving she stops playing.
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tahlequah, Oklahoma
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RE: squirrel dogs
I love treeing feist. I have one who is about 5 now who will get the squirrels and opssumms like crazy. I know most people wouldnt want there dogs treeing a possumm but sense they kill my chickens around here I dont mind it. Unfortunetly feist are bred to kill and she kills my chickens if i dont put her in the privacy fence. And she's a natural treedog as well, just walked her in the woods and she did it on her own.
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Teton Valley, ID
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RE: squirrel dogs
I have a Chinook X Alaskan Husky / Timberwolf(25%) and an Alaskan Village dog (read husky mutt). They tree squirrels, run snowshoe hare, mtn. cottontails and the wolfdog has learned to point grouse from a buddies Visla. I don't trust him to retrieve though
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
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RE: squirrel dogs
I've not tryed my dashound for squirrels but i love to watch her chase rabbits in owr yard then watch her back track to where they first took off then follow the trail to where it went under or polebarn.Oh and buy the way her name is STAR and shes 5 years old .