We started Soph by having her tied to the fence, you can see how she wants to dive in on the pigs but not bark. Dan came from Christchurch with one of his dogs, a three year old bitch (Soph). Dan described her as a finder that liked to bite a pig on the back […]
Grant traveled down from Christchurch with his nine month old bitch Brandy. To date she had only seen three pigs so was still very green to the sport of pig hunting. This was Grants only dog as he was fairly new to the sport of pig hunting. Right from the start I liked the look […]
I had been hunting with friends for a few years before I bought my first pig dog ‘Demon’ in June of 2012, I acquired a few more mongrels to back him up over the following winter months and had reasonable luck catching pork. My main problems to solve were vet bills and chewed meat. I […]
Jed at the early stages of his training Shane is a truck driver for main freight out of Cromwell and he hunts with Peter Lewis who came in a couple of days ago with his two dogs Jade and Gaz. Shane was bringing in two of his dogs but at the last minute one of […]
Fog bailed this boar from a distance and the boar was more interested in charging the dog rather than running away, this was his down fall. This footage shows that a dog does not have to hold a pig to keep it from running away. I finally got a chance to get out on the […]
Peter is a builder from Cromwell, he turned up with one eight month old dog, Gaz and a bitch that was over one year old, Jade. Because Jade was the older of the two and looked to be the harder we took her up for the first run. As soon as she saw the pigs […]