Piggy Play '09

[jcrosscatahoulas]

Here's some of the puppy and young dog crew from this weekend playing "piggy" at Catahoulaville.

This is Trip - ya'll saw him earlier in the "cow bay" fun pix


Gumbo the coon dog - he'll bay the fire out of a hog - lol, he really didn't care, just let me do SOMETHING!


Gumbo and T-Gray, our friends gyp.


The puppies...they'll be 6 months old the 15th of this month, Java (no collar) Mamba, Legacy (blue leopard) Legend (black leopard)






last puppy one - Drag Nasty was makin' 'em hustle!


Viper

[bulletproof]

great pics..i love watch them young dogs work

[midnite]

Thats funny My phone was on all weekend long & I don't remember getting a call saying ya'll were gonna play with the dogs

[lunger]

Good looking dogs. How big of a fenced in area is that ?

[jcrosscatahoulas]

hmmm lunger, I don't know, maybe 1/2 acre or there abouts. It's not real big, but plenty big for 2 grown hogs to not root it to death. I think it's about 7 or 8 panels (16') down each side and 4 or 5 on each end.

[circlebarj]

The kids are looking great!!!!

[lunger]

I have two acres up on the front that I have been thinking about fencing in for the same thing. With two hogs in there the dogs don't try to split bay ?

[jcrosscatahoulas]

Not too bad, lunger. Sometimes they will, but most often they'll either try to bay the hogs together, or if one breaks, they'll stay on that one til they get him stopped. The puppies even learn to hang with what they're on rather than swapping. Like any pen situation, you have to "turn down the heat" a little bit, keep your hogs rough enough to keep the dogs respect level UP. The puppies bay the same hogs the bigger dogs do, the only difference is the "finished" dogs only bay one at a time if they're baying in a pen, unless it's for money or a title. I don't practice 2 dog once they get started pretty good - if they're in a team, it's in the woods or a few bucks on the line.

[drsimco]

man great pics, i like the way you've got your pin with the brush piles in it and all. I bet that really makes the dogs have to work, man thats good for them young dogs. That sure is a good lookin boar hog whats he gona go.

[jcrosscatahoulas]

We have 2 in there (well, 3 now - just added one - that probably wasn't real smart). The 2 originals are both about 200-225 lbs.