Labour weekend the 21 of October 2012 was the weigh in day for the annual Waiau pig hunting competition. One of the main organizers of this comp is Joanne Moriarty and this year she has done an exceptional job of advertising and running this comp with the numbers up on previous years. She puts this […]
Lets face it when we go out pig hunting we want to catch good pigs not have our dogs out there mauling small pigs. For every small pig that your dogs kill is one less that you can catch next year and there is very little eating on a piglet. When training a young dog […]
Richard comes from Dunedin and has been hunting for a few years now with very good results. I had acquired my last dog ( Fog ) off Richard who is now ten months old. Richard also has a litter mate of Fog, Keith who he wanted to bring down for some extra training to see […]
Dane and Tyrone have only got into the sport of pig hunting in the past year but are already hooked and want to learn as much about the sport as they can. Dane works as a roofer in Oamaru and Tyrone works on a dairy farm near Duntroon. Both guys had a dog each of […]
I have been very busy over the last week driving a milk tanker for Fonterra out of Clandeboye in South Canterbury. This is my thirteenth season driving tankers and for the past two seasons I have been job sharing with another driver which gives me more time to focus on my hunting and dog training. […]
A big part of having a pig dog training facility is having the other animals around for the dogs to get used to, so that other hunters can see how their dogs will react when put into different situations. However with sheep they do require maintenance. Now that winter is over and things are starting […]