And other sundry summer pastimes



I use frontline on the grown dogs and the fleas have been under control. But then the puppies arrived. I assumed that Debra Kay would pass on some degree of frontline in her milk, but no

I bathed ten puppies today, sprayed pens and put new pine flakes in houses. The only one who seemed to enjoy the whole process was Debra Kay

I got a couple of emails from Dylan.,,,,,Dillon,,,, it don't really matter about the spelling of his name, he'll earn a new one ala "Dilla the armadilla killa" after he hunts with me a while
After he and his brother, Sebastian, picked out pups, they jetsetted off to France for the summer. Must be nice. I was luck as a kid to be able to slip off from chores long enough to fish in the Chattahoochee.
He emailed me a couple of pics of his grandfathers guns in France and I emailed back asking for details
If his school reports are as chock full of information as his reply then he is definitely a solid

I've started training to prevent the pups from being gunshy



I fire a shot or two as I approach the dogpens to feed

Ok, Debra Kay had 10 puppies by way of Teddy NoPass. They are three red (choclate) and white females and seven black/white/brown of which six are male and one is female.

Dylan has claimed one of the coppernosed females



His brother Sebastian has claimed the one female black and tan



I've staked a claim to one of the male black and tans
By simple math that even I a Alabama redneck can do leaves me with seven puppies for sale. Two are female coppernose and the other five are black and tan males
These come from quality 13 inch full blood beagle hunting stock. Their ancestors exploits and blood line can be found doing a simple search on this site



If Dylan and Sebastian names look familiar, they are. I've never laughed so hard as when they were charged by a wild eyed rabbit in a open pasture at Pookies

I wormed the adults and used some frontline on them. And checked the collars. They've been pretty inactive lately, just eating and laying around

I understand that a few people are wanting a look at Teddy NoPass and Debra Kay's puppies
Their eyes are open yet and they are bunched up in a ball so don't expect much

The brown pups will sell for a tad more than the tri's

Debra Kay had 10 puppies by way of Teddy NoPass
3 chocolates and 7 black/white/brown as well as I can tell
those of you who are in need of a new hunting dog could do a lot worse than these

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aka Sexy Sally has passed.
I wanted to talk about the last two hunts but Sallie Mae disappeared during the afternoon of 28 February 2013.
I found her about 8:30 in a ditch near the hunting property in Tuskegee. She was walking in tiny circles and never was the term "soaked to bone" more appropriate.
When I got her home, I saw that she was injured far worse than I had thought.
I'm beginning to hate being the dogman. They are a source of frustration, pride, happiness and sorrow. I didn't want to put her down but I had no choice.

As Uncle NoPass would have said "She was a good'un. Best dog in these parts. Wouldn't run nothing but a rabbit. Everybody said so"



She's the tricolor in our hunt on the Tornado, this year

was a third hunt at Pookies in Chambers County, Alabama
Our last hunt at Pookies was a unqualified success. At least in the total number of rabbits killed and even I, a notoriously bad shot killed two, one on a loooong shot.
As usual, our host was djmed.

Final Score
Attendees and bagged rabbits in parentheses:
DjMed (1)
Rimfire (2)
Brag (2)
Plunker
Billy Deerdog (5)
David (1)
Dustin (2)
Moo (1)

By the way, does anybody know what kind of plant this is?

Sigh.
No matter where I went in the woods on our Tornado hunt-The other side of the road-, it seemed like there were always two of Dusty1's friends from Auburn behind me
I listened as the dogs completed the turn and were heading in my direction. I watched expectantly at the narrow gap I expected him to cross.

to post the pictures in the next day or so

The day after the first Tuskegee hunt, Brag, Plunker and I hunted the Tornado again
Good news is that I was high man for the hunt
Bad news was I had only two rabbits
Worse news was Brag and Plunker had 0
We hunted all day long and had race after race only to lose the rabbit after we never seemed to be able to either get in position or see the rabbit in the tough hunting conditions from thick briars, large deadfalls from the tornado or thick saplings laced with vines.

The two rabbits that I did kill were from elevated perches on a high stump and a deadfall jutting out of a bank a good ten foot in the air.



Tough day all around

Ever since the first rabbit of the morning when I had to fire two off hand shots at a bunny in tight cover, I had tried fruitlessly to move into position. I had moved close. I waited at the jump site. I tried to cut off. I tried every move I could think of, all to no avail.
The only time I had come close was when I jumped a rabbit

It isn't funny.
Two hunts, Tuskegee and Tornado and it's fixing to be three when we hunt Tuskegee tomorrow

Tuskegee
A lot of fun with 13 rabbits bagged by lunch for a total of 15. I had to cut out early for a funeral, so the hunt was cut short. And we lost a hour and a half when the dogs ran a rabbit into a swamp bottom. More details later such as Brag falling in the creek and special guest Corky Pugh





Brent (1)
Ben
Doug
Eric
Mu (3)
Quan (4)
Rimfire (2)
Brag (4)
Plunker (1)
Gary
Corky

Tornado

15 for the abbreviated day
13 before lunch
Details and pictures to come......sometime after I hunt Tornado today with Brag and Plunker