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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Did you get the hog?
    No. By the time I got to them I just had dead beagles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Curious...how do hogs kill dogs? I know the wild boar have large tusks, but I'd think two dogs would keep a hog busy. Or was it a few hogs?
    It’s not a pretty sight. Two beagles aren’t going to stand a chance against even a medium size hog. Most guys that hunt them use pit bulls as catch dogs. A hog stabs and will eviscerate a dog...even big dogs like pits. Beagles have no chance at all. That’s why I ran my butt off trying to head my dogs off. Couldn’t do it and they were cut to doll rags when I found them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    It’s not a pretty sight. Two beagles aren’t going to stand a chance against even a medium size hog. Most guys that hunt them use pit bulls as catch dogs. A hog stabs and will eviscerate a dog...even big dogs like pits. Beagles have no chance at all. That’s why I ran my butt off trying to head my dogs off. Couldn’t do it and they were cut to doll rags when I found them.
    That must have been terrible.
    Sounds like this is a case of the dogs not knowing enough to stay away from the head? I guess it's similar to training them to never follow a raccoon into the water?
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    I’m sure looking forward to retirement, or at least partial retirement. As my vacation winds down, I am planning to squirrel hunt tomorrow. I got a new dog two days ago but it has been raining ever since then. So I now just have tomorrow and Saturday to hunt her.

    I got her because I lost two of my 4 beagles to hogs last week. Sad day for leaningright’s household but when you hunt with dogs it’s not a matter of if something like this could happen, it’s a matter of when it will happen.

    Anyway, I got this squirrel dog and she needs time in the woods but I’ll be working steadily until squirrel season is over with few days to take her. Yep, I’m looking forward to retirement.
    OMG, LR. I am so sorry about your dogs. What a horrible thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Unless I hit the lottery I'm about 8 years...minimum...from retiring. To be honest if the stress element in my job is kept at a reasonable level I wouldn't mind working till full SS age or even mandatory collection age.

    Though if I do retire early I think I would use my life science background, study botany and plant hybridization, and cross breed Republicans.
    Is that how we ended up with the semi-sentient pumpkin in the WH?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    OMG, LR. I am so sorry about your dogs. What a horrible thing.
    Meh I wouldn't be too sympathetic. If you train a dog to hunt wild hogs you do so knowing they will have a very short life expectency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    create a machine that can mix agar as well as you do and you can work yourself out of a job.......
    I don't mix agar. I mix hazardous waste. Ironic isn't it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Meh I wouldn't be too sympathetic. If you train a dog to hunt wild hogs you do so knowing they will have a very short life expectency.
    That’s why I couldn’t do it, my dad raised English Pointers, even though they were hunting dogs, they were family.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Dear gracious, Old Yeller flashbacks. That’s a darn shame. I’d give up hog meat. I like my animals too much.
    I know...I mean up here in Ohio why would you risk ruining a perfectly good dog when we have all these Hillbillys up here to use!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I know...I mean up here in Ohio why would you risk ruining a perfectly good dog when we have all these Hillbillys up here to use!
    You crack me up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Meh I wouldn't be too sympathetic. If you train a dog to hunt wild hogs you do so knowing they will have a very short life expectency.
    Still.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    Thanks, Rana. They weren’t supposed to be running hogs. They were just rabbit dogs and we were rabbit hunting, but beagles are stubborn and will chase anything that runs until they learn better. Unfortunately these didn’t get the opportunity to learn better.
    I know...Beagles aren't the smartest dogs around (excepting Snoopy of course). My Lab ran across a feral hog when we were out Pheasant hunting once and he hauled ass in the opposite direction. I just stood still with my shotgun pointed at him till he trotted off on his own business. Damned dangerous animals, particularly if they are in a pack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I don't mix agar. I mix hazardous waste. Ironic isn't it?
    not really......I find it completely in character......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I know...Beagles aren't the smartest dogs around (excepting Snoopy of course). My Lab ran across a feral hog when we were out Pheasant hunting once and he hauled ass in the opposite direction. I just stood still with my shotgun pointed at him till he trotted off on his own business. Damned dangerous animals, particularly if they are in a pack.
    I never came across a pack of wild hogs until I was hiking in Germany's Black Forest three yrs. ago.
    At first I heard what sounded like a chainsaw in the distance which would've been highly unusual on a Sunday morning in Germany.
    Turned out to be a pack of wildschwein. Large and black .
    Do our wild hogs sound like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    not really......I find it completely in character......
    That's not the best part. We ship most of it to michigan.
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