Pups doing well

My buddies give me a hard time.  One of the many things they are good for.  At their advice I sold down.  I wanted to get down to two dogs, and I couldn't move my bluetick pups.  I like them.  Built great, good looking, and love how they are papered.  That doesn't mean they will be good gun dogs first, and trail second.  While having them up for sale I took them out in the wild with my grade gyp Sam.  Second time out the bluetick gyp Mary Jane opened up.  Sadly the rabbit holed up about 20 yards on the chase.  Next day went with a buddy to hunt.  He's got a nine month old pup while mine are seven months old.  I consider Sam a pup at just 21 months.

The day went fairly well.  Hard to shoot at anything. I seen the back end of a bunny and that was it.  Pups done real good though.  Started hunting, and tracking.  Both opened up that day.  The gyp Mary Jane seems like she's coming along good.  Ran a track real nice.  Thor is coming along the male.  He's been a bit tough to handle, but came right to me for a change.

Overall the pups are doing well.

Overall happy

With moving all my dogs I'm happy.  Right now I'm down to three, and probably move both those pups.  I took Sam out to solo hunt her yesterday.  I wanted to gun hunt, and went to a spot that is easy to do.  Sadly not a single rabbit up.  First time I was soloing her too, so I was worried.  Went to another area, but it's extremely hard to gun hunt at.  She ran three rabbits for about two hours.  I was really happy.  At 21 months old, and the first time I solo'd her she done it all.  Jumped her own, worked hard in the check area's, and kept the rabbits moving good.  It was a good day.

The full update.

Back in October I was running Jack and Sam a lot.  Five days a week, and working with two pups.  Well things went down hill.  Jack scratched out in two hunts on me.  I loved how hard he hunted, and found out a lot more about the paycheck dogs.  So I found two paycheck pups.  Beautiful blueticks.

I went up to seven dogs.  Mostly all pups.

The week before season comes in my grandmother becomes very ill and in the hospital. Had a stroke that triggered an anuism(sp?) She died, and buried her the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  Done a little gun hunting, and with seven dogs I started to move them.

I traded Jack for a bluetick gyp.  Liked her, but still to many dogs.  Sold her back to the guy that I got her from.  Traded Bandit one of my tri-color males for Coco.  Sold Coco.  Figured to keep the littlemate Hoss but sold him.  Sold Princess as well as a brood dog though she had potential to run.   I did have her lightly started at one time.

Down to three dogs.  Sam, Thor, and Mary Jane.  Thor and Mary Jane are my paycheck pups.  I'll keep Sam till she dies.

Plan is to get the paycheck pups burning it up.  Getting them out of a starting pen tomorrow.  Been there for a week, and doing real well.  Guy ran them all day and left them in the pen all night.  Ate one of the rabbits.  Hate it for his rabbit, but glad those pups had the drive to get over it till it wouldn't move.

Plan on buying a nice older dog to help train the pups with, and going to solo hunt the guys out of them and Sam.  I do have the time in truth.

Some what reliefed

Sold Hoss and Princess today.  After I get my paycheck pups back I'll only be at three dogs.

Moving dogs

I decided to move my beagles.  Why? Well I've got seven.  So far two are gone.  Maybe three or four today.  Will post pics of my paycheck pups when I get them from a starting pen tomorrow.  Blueticks, and their huge.  Good looking pups, and doing real well.  Hopefully they turn out to be what I want.  Only beagle not leaving me kennel, and never will is Sam.  My Branko Grade Gyp.  Wish her dam had papers.

Took the dogs out this morning after the bus run. Started out slow, but things picked up real fast. My male dog is looking good. I took a different pup with me this morning. Hoss went Tuesday night, and Bandit this morning. He's smaller then Hoss, but done good. Done his best to keep up, and even opened up on a few tracks. Really happy since this is his first time out. The two pups should be easy to get started, and turn out really good.

Since Sunday I've been taking the dogs out.  Jake and Sam.  Jake is about 3 1/2 now, and Sam is 1 1/2.  I believe November she'll be one year and eight months.  Well they've been doing pretty good.  Tonight was bit of an adventure.  I set them off on deer with a pup that is five months old.  Huge risk if my older dogs run a deer.  Thankfully out of the four I seen none of them were chased after.  Ignored the deer and got a rabbit up.  Good news is Hoss one of my five month old pups took right off with the older dogs at the start.  Granted he had some trouble moving through the thickets but over all I was happy.  Scott went with me, and we tried a new spot.  Wasn't the best.  My stupid Shocking System went dead on me on the handheld.  No extra batteries so had to call it early.