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May 2013

My new pup “Thunder”

Normally I start one new pup every two years this way I have a good age gap between my dogs. However this year I had decided to get a new pup early as my last pup Fog is only 16 months old. I had a number of reasons for doing this. One of those reasons […]

John Wilkinson and May

John drove up from South of Oamaru with his bitch, May a pointer cross to give her a run in the block and see what she will do on a pig as she has not been onto one with him yet. As soon as we put May into the block with Breeze she was quite […]

A good day out

The day after having Dan Smith in for training I just had to get the dogs and myself out for a hunt. I was going to head for a block of douglas furs away out the back of the forestry for a look. My reason for heading for this block was that one of my […]

Dan Smith with Mahe, Bear and Demon

Dan was only coming in with two dogs but because he had nobody to look after his third dog he had to bring it along. That third dog was a big holder named Demon. His other two were a bitch and dog out of the same litter. The dog Mahe looked to be the bigger […]

Sam & Adam Whitelock

Most people will know Sam and Adam from the crusaders rugby team. Recently these two guys have got into the sport of pig hunting and have both acquired a young nine month old dog each out of the same litter. Sam had a bitch, Dot and Adam had a dog, Jack. They only came in […]

Chris Parker with dog’s Bear & Kate

Chris travelled up from Gore to give his dogs a run through the training block. He did not arrive until 10 pm so it was a late night by the time we had a couple of beers and a good yarn. After a short sleep we were up and ready to get the dogs going. […]