Huh? Huh? Are we there yet?
I gotta pee.
I smell a rabbit. You smell a rabbit? Lets run that one.
Are we there yet?
Sissy threw up on me….again
Let me ouuuuutttttttt

Suffice to say that Sammie doesn’t travel well at least in the same box as Sissy.

This continued on most of the way to Opelika. Haven, Brag, Dustin and I were meeting to go up to Plunker's place in Chambers County for a pre-season exercise.
Brag and I took all of the "Girls". And Sammie.
Haven brought only Elmer. Coco was in heat and Dixie was on the sold list.
Dustin, the former teat, brought Dustin's dog. And Tyler's stray.
Beagler 282 had been invited but had commitments for field trails.

To dry

Lucy picked up the rabbit near where we put out. It was a good though short run. The dogs had to much trouble staying on the dry scent on the dry brush. Today, Monday, would have been better after a good long soaking from the Sunday rainstorms.

Katie hit the next track. The dogs took off, but shortly Dustin's dogs, Elmer, and the pups came back. Lucy, Katie and Penny were gone a long while. Doubtful it was a deer. Katie won't run a deer. Lets put it this way, she hasn't ran a deer in years. Even Lucy and Penny have decided they are to much trouble.
Now a fox or a bobcat.........

We put the dogs up shortly after to wait for more favorable conditions.

I put together two CafePress stores that have

Rabbit Hunter stuff like mugs, and such. I ordered two items to check the quality of the print and they were good. There are shirts available, BUT, for those who use my site, we'll get a much better deal with better quality from djmed. If you can't wait, have at it.

The second store is more specific to the East Alabama Rabbit Hunters & Souse Eaters Social Club. I haven't ordered from it yet, so I can't attest to the quality of the print, but online samples looked good.

Cattle Ranch and Chicken Emporium is now open.

May I introduce

a Remington 550 / 512 .22 Inner Magazine Tube Assembly for GF's plinking gun from Numrich on Friday. It arrived today, Monday.
Fast service and what looks like a reasonable price.

I can't wait to try it er I mean for GF to try it out

I would like to open up The Rabbit Journal to other readers and commentators, who I've known through this site for a while. Ya'll must be awful tired of having to wade through my pitiful attempts
If you are involved with field trials and would like to post meetings, results, stories and pics
If you build a dog box, dog pen,......... and think that others might like to see it, the construction and plans
If you want to post on dog care
If you want to post on pre-season or season hunts
If you want to post on laws
If you want try your hand at using your dad's (wifes?) video camera, We can load them on youtube or other free sites and embed them on the Journal
if.....

Drop me a line.
I only require that

You DO NOT violate copy write laws. There is fair use of published material, but it is limited in words and scope.

No personal attacks. It's ok to disagree with others positions and ideas about how to go about things, but personal attacks are taboo

All pictures must be sized. I use a free program that can be downloaded and I get great results batch sizing pictures to post

You're posts must be coherent and use a spell check. Yes, I often intentionally and unintentionally misspell a word and many times use the wrong word. Sometime my syntax is wrong. But I do work at it using a spell check grammar check,... and other tools that are available on Microsoft Word processor or, what I often use, Open Office, since I feel that Bill Gates has enough money.
By the way, my website looks a little different in FireFox than it does in Internet Explorer. For instance, in some IE you can't see the changing picture collage in the left column immediately below the "Front Page" link. And FireFox has upgraded to a more secure, stable version

I'm not a prude, But (don't we love that word) keep it clean.

Thou shall not take the Lords name in vain

There might be other rules that come with others using the site
Remember this site is not a democracy, it is a benevolent dictatorship

heebie jeebies when I think of that timber rattler, I'll link to a couple of posts that I did on first aid kits.

Being prepared can save you a dog or a partner

Doc Caldwell, the unofficial veternarian of choice for The Rabbit Journal Pack as he examined Sally back in April.
"Nope" was my reply, "not even a grass snake."

Doc Caldwell who doesn't live to far from Rabbit Run said "you will, believe me, you will."

And I do and I did

from yet another trip. Sends this missive and pictures.

Great trip out of Destin Saturday. We had some clouds and went through a little rain, but the seas were very calm.

We had 3 boys fishing with us - 2 eleven year olds and 1 ten- and they were on fire. I had a ball watching them and couldn't believe the size of the fish they brought up without any help.

Lots of nice fish- Amberjack up to 40 pounds,Grouper up to 30. We even caught a nice Wahoo on the fly line.

Awesome day on the big pond!



Ladies, did I mention he's single? I did? Well, maybe that's why he can afford these trips.
And I feel that I should point out to djmed, it's not nice to hold the kids fish up like you caught them.
More pics on the item page

GF asked after I put the girls (and Sammie) back in their pen. She had been on the screened in back porch listening to the race
Yep, but I had to fire both fingers.

I stood, this morning in the deep shade offered by tall privet, sweet gum and tall devils walking sticks . Only the occasional vine ran up the tree trunks in search of the light that was stopped by the thick canopy some twenty feet above the mostly barren ground. There was a line of big rubs made by a buck whitetail that often hid in the bottom during deer season.
My duty was to turn the rabbit as he made for the property line and the thick undergrowth that covered that section of a neighbor’s former pasture. I didn’t want the girls (and Sammie) tangling with his burro, if I could avoid it.

The Girls (and Sammie) were in hot pursuit of the pasture rabbit that they had jumped midway down the ponds drainage creek in the back yard of Rabbit Run. The shape of the area surrounded by pasture was roughly
//= = >O with the o being the pond.

There was a new voice joining in with Lucy‘s yard dog bark, Katie’s one note hammering and Penny‘s modified bay. Kind of a high pitched squeal. It wasn’t Sammie who sounds a lot like Penny, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sissy, so that leaves Sally, the oldest of the puppies.

Might make for an interesting time. At least, it would give me something to post about. I could take pictures (with telephoto lens) from the backup boat

out here at Rabbit Run. The pastures are dry and brittle after only a slight shower we had a few days ago.
Then two nights ago, I went to Cuz's house for a few minutes and it started raining as I pulled onto hwy 80. It rained all the way there and then all the way back till I was less than a mile from Rabbit Run when it quit. Not a drop at Rabbit Run

GF and I decided to take 2's new toy, a 24 foot pontoon party barge, out for a spin from it's slip at it's home port of Florence yesterday evening. I call her "Why?" while 2 calls her "Why Knot"
This morning, I got a rather snide note for the Seale Fireman who asked "Hey Chuck, you didn't watch that redneckin Weather Watch to close did you?" and included a couple of pics.

on his lunch hour today. He must have one heck of a lunch break to come all the way out here from DownTown Columbus.
I decided to put the dogs out on the pasture rabbit despite it being so hot and late in the day.

The Girls (and Sammie) couldn't find him. To tell you the truth, after about twenty minutes, I don't think they were trying very hard.

I, also, heard from One Dawg today. Nothing much, just catching up on everybody.

Plunker is in Michigan for a niece's graduation. He and his wife, Miz Plunker decided to make it a vacation.

I talked to djmed yesterday. He's looking for a bluesman. Yeah, he likes that kind of music as I do but he wants somebody to blue a gun for him. I also talked him into taking a kitten. One left.

BB says he's been picking watermelons for his dad. Sounds like a good move on his dad's part considering how much they charge at the supermarket. What kind, bb? Did he have a good crop? Ask him if he's ever heard of a terrace watermelon that they used to plant on the terraces in the field to prevent erosion.

Dustin, Cuz's grandson and a former teat, (he's graduated from HS. Dang time flies) is eager to run the dogs. He has a puppy and a older dog that needs some running time

Speaking of Dustin, Cus and Rye are hanging out in the air conditioning as elder sportsmen tend to do

We had our first rain shower in weeks last night. Might get a little more today. We certainly need it. The pond is holding it's on, but we're not making any grass in the pastures.

I gave the "aunties" some frontline. I'm still waiting for the overseas company I order from to send the puppies.

of gas has sharply curtailed my pre-season exercises this year.....at least the ones that require me to do any driving.
Fortunately, the pasture rabbit has been cooperating.
Since I had some family duties last Saturday, and Brag hadn't got with me, I figured if the girls (and Sammie) were going to get any exercise, I would have to just turn them out of the pen. Besides, I was tired of aerating the pasture anyway.

After all the bragging I've been doing about the pups, especially Sammie, it figures that they would act like pups and take the day off.
Samuel P Thumbsucker


was a thumbsucker from the word "getgo" with Sally


and Sissy quitting about 15 minutes later.


I was sitting on 2's new pontoon boat, named the "Why" watching the girls as they tried to find the rabbit they could smell along the edge of the thick undergrowth below the pond. I looked over and saw a set of ears in the grass rotating like radar dishes next to the fence line above the girls and parallel to me, only fifty yards from the pen. I started calling for the dogs and the rabbit took off. Kate spotted it as it hit the bushes and the chase was on.

Sammie got blocked by an exceptionally thick patch of briars and said the heck with it and came back to set at my feet. Sally and Sissy stayed with the "Girls" for a short period of time before coming back,
Lucy, Kate and Penny burned up that rabbit in a thicket just over my property line for a good hour and a half before losing the scent. Since it was lunch time and the heat of the day, they came back to the pen somewhat reluctantly, but come back they did

Uncle NoPass in my posts on rabbit hunting.
He earned the name from his constant telling of 3 years 9 months and 22 days without a pass in the Pacific theater during WWII.
He had a brother, One Eyed Charlie, who was also a rabbit hunter, but he served in the European theater.
On June 6, 1944, One Eyed Charlie (though he had two eyes at the time) stormed ashore at Omaha Beach, not with a gun but with a medic bag. It had to have taken a lot of guts to do that with a gun, but it takes even more to do it with a medic bag and render aid to the wounded on that horrible day

have been in the pen for a while after rabbit season 07-08.
A lack of exercise and good food means that it's time to run a couple of fingers underneath the collars to make sure they're not to tight and don't need replacing. Remember to check your phone number. After our recent move, my cell number changed for a variety of reasons and now the data plates need replacing.
Unfortunately, Nathans in Columbus seems to be going under and they were the only place that I could buy collars And nameplates. Now, I have to check the Auburn Opelika area.

Sorry about the lack of posting, I've been pretty busy plus we had a death in our congregation