When it comes to breeding hounds there is a lot to think about when selecting which two to breed. It also becomes very situational based on if you breed two from your own pack or whether you are working with another hound owner to have a litter. Another thing to consider when breeding is what your purpose for this litter...
When it comes to the realm of retrievers, bird dogs, treeing dogs, and even in some cases pack dogs gun shyness is something that can be heartbreaking. From experience, owning a dog that cowers even when you pull a gun out of the truck is highly frustrating. Working with a lab puppy lately has led me to doing a lot...
Every person has likely had some very good hunting dogs and some that might not have been so good, but something that many people stand divided on is whether or not to have registered dogs. Dog registration holds its place in the hound community and there are definitely some cases where registered dogs may be the best choice. However, is...
If you are a part of the hound community it has become very apparent that there is an alarmingly large number of people who do not like what we do. Every year we hear more and more issues arise of some group of people wanting to abolish a certain type of hound hunting. We all struggle as a community to...
At some point or another everyone here has gotten back to the truck or through the woods and said “where is my …?” I am sure others have been in that same spot where hours where you should be hunting have been devoted to finding whatever you lost in the woods. It is not a fun experience and can most...
When thinking about deer hounds the walker seems to rule the woods here in North Carolina. They are fast, powerful dogs that really push a deer through the block. However when I started my pack I decided that I wanted to take a different, more classic approach. I made my mind up that I was going to begin looking for...
The hound hunting community is an extremely diverse community. From the treeing dogs in the Northwest, all the way to rabbit beagles on the East Coast, they appear to be completely different worlds. However, if we break it down to the basics none of us are truly that different. In our similarities there is one struggle that concerns all of...
Every dog has its own place in the pack when it comes to deer. Hounds hunting deer together as a pack are peculiarly similar to people playing a team sport together. In a perfect world every single deer hunting dog would have the best nose, be able work the track, make the jump and then run together as a pack...
Behind every well trained deer hound is a lot of hours of training put in to make sure that your pup is ready when you dump the box. The process of training each dog can be simple or some may take a little more work before it gets the hang of it. The key things to always remember are patience...
My name is Hampton Short, I am from Vance county, North Carolina. I grew up hunting whitetail with a walker club near home and quail hunting with my father’s pointers. When I was 16 I got my first beagle. I wanted to transition to beagle hunting to accommodate the smaller blocks that we hunt. From there I have grown my...
