Ohio3Wheels wrote:It appears your lads were there to supervise.
Yeah, they are all up in my business big time. Immediately after that picture, I took them home as I was starting up a seismic line, the line is a food plot, that runs about a half mile into rising terrain. Rising terrain here is limestone soils and rattlesnake country. I get about 300 yards up that line and sure as sunrise, a five and a half footer crossed the line in front of me. I'm not sure how my dogs would react and I'm not willing to find out until they have been to snake school. Been waiting for one to be announced through the various ag services but so far, not. They have the vaccine, but I'm not sure exactly how effective it is when one of these big boys knocks them off their feet. I suspect they are going to run about 50 yards and drop dead.
They went missing last week for half a day, I was really sore at them. Didn't do anything, but locked them up which they fully understood was not good. Kept them locked up in the yard for four-days pending trial. Held that yesterday and allowed them to stick with me all day as I was going to be on my feet. I wore them out, every time I caught they laying down, I did something to get them back up on their feet. They went to bed on their own last night before dark, some wore out dogs. They have seen me dispatch hogs and coons, I let them know that in 30 days I would have fawns on the ground and the fun is over. If I catch them with a fawn in their mouths, I will drop them like a sack of taters.
I also bought GPS trackers for their collars which should be here tomorrow. If they leave the boundaries I've set, I will get a text and a live map to them and they will go back to lockup. Both these fellows are really smart, they get what is going on and what is expected.
The cur is still delivering the newspaper for my dad every morning, up to the highway and back, hasn't missed a beat. Would love for the hound to find a job, but he is just not that kind of a dog. He does excel at napping. When they went missing, he was gone a full hour longer than the cur. I figured he laid down and went to sleep.
). Setup a round pen on one end as I think I may be needing that pretty soon as the weather is starting to break for the better finally. Don't enjoy working horses in the cold and windy anymore. Well, never really did, just did it. Now that I think about it I actually don't like doing ANYTHING outside when it's cold and windy anymore... 
