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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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. […]