Sporting dogs

Anyone here have any dogs they use for sport? hunting or anything else? My family has beagles, quite a few really. Some of them hunt rabbits, others run in field trials. None really do both, they're either too fast for a trial and hunt, or too slow for hunting, and might work as a brace beagle (which is a trial dog) It's really interesting, lots of training for those dogs, but they love it. They're treated like kings / queens at the trials. They never see the rabbit, they're not allowed. They have to go on nose alone.

If you ever have the chance to check something like that out, you shouldn't pass it up.

 

Hi Pax, I used to have a Lab I used for hunting, and also a mixed beagle/Heinze-57. Darn good hunting dog too. I liked that mixed one the best... He could really find the pheasants....:major

Other than that, just my shelties I used to show, but they didn't hunt...

 

I had a Japanese Akita who over there were bred for hunting bear, mine was afraid of the dark :-o

 

I know what you mean Darlene. My mom has a German Shepherd that will bark like crazy at people and get all protective, but thunder? Fireworks? Gun shots? She'll be waiting in the bathtub if you need her. LOL

 

Aw, so many people loose their dogs on July 4

 

We used to have four Akitas. Great dogs, all of them - one of ours was afraid of the dark, too. :-D

 

Isn't that funny. She had skin problems so bad she had to be put down after spending lots of money we couldn't afford trying to fix her, was so hard :cry

 

The only one we had to put down, Canoe, I sat with when it was time for him to go - I was the only person he got along with, and he didn't much care for anybody else.

His intestines twisted up one morning after breakfast, and the vet said they were too badly damaged to try to save him. :cry Apparently, this twisting is something Akitas are prone to.

 

I use to go to the cabin in the Everglades here with my brother-in-law and friends hunting . He had 2 dogs one was dad and the other the son. both were york terriers. the son had a little more then york. The father was called the "Slabb Dog" and the son "The Hunter". Yep dad laid on the concrete slab while the son went out in the glades with his owner to hunt. One problem though the son couldn't wait for you to pull the trigger before he would go after the kill. Use to P**s my brother-in-law off.:-D I thought it was rather funny my selfLOL

 

aw sorry, they are beautiful dogs. Seems all dogs have some problem or another the way they're bred. I have cats

 

Had a little Jack Russell. We used to be able to tell him to get a bath he’d run upstairs an jump in the tub, He loved chasing rabbits, had him out one day he got totally filthy, arrived home, told him he need a bath, off he ran, upstairs and jumped in the tub, trouble was I didn’t know my wife was taking a bath, the screams scared him he jumped out still muddy but now soaking wet, ran helter skelter through the house, mud and suds everywhere. Needles to say we were both in the doghouse.

 

A previous girlfriend breed Havanese, little small hypo allergenic (so she said) ankle bitters. I am a animal lover myself but the time and dedication that took was to much for me. She shows them also, the show crowd is a different 'breed' themselves.

 

That they are. With everything people do breeding-wise with dogs now, I'd never have another one. All breeders seem to know how to do nowadays is create dogs with odd traits like German Shepherds with back legs that look like they've been pulled back out from under them - I never could see how that could be good for any dog.

 

So true and the poor animals suffer for it