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Training session at home, learning boundary’s
A big part of training our pig dogs should be done at home so that by the time we take our young dog out for a hunt it is willing to listen to us. This […]
Articles by Bill Westwood
Bill's Diary
Boning out a sheep
Living in the country means that I can provide my own meat and not just wild pork. I had two black sheep out with my ewes, one ram and a wether, that’s a ram with […]
Bill's Diary
Avoiding sows and targeting Boars
The majority of pig hunters would rather catch a nice boar rather than a sow. The reason for this is that we understand the importance of keeping our hunting areas stocked up with wild game. […]
Dog training
Jerry Homan and John Baxter
Jerry and John had travelled over from Wesport to get their three dogs onto some pigs. One of the dogs Ben was a big powerful dog that had a bit of an attitude problem. Because […]
Bill's Diary
South Island Ridgeline judging team
Each year our judging team have one big get together, this year it was up at my new house in the Te Moana gorge. We had managed to get most of our judge’s along as […]
Bill's Diary
Nice easy pig released
I was planning on giving the dogs a walk but had only walked 200 meters when I saw Lightning putting his nose to the ground and take off tracking. When Lightning was down in the […]