Pig Dog.

[wombat2u2004]

My next door neighbour has two pig dogs that he raised from pups.
Tiger and Honey have now grown quite large, and Rob has taken them both out a couple of times the last month, hunting wild pigs.
Yesterday while building a new fence between our properties, I noticed that Tiger didn't come out of his kennel to his daily investigation of the fence building process.
Rob came out a little while later and told me that Tiger had a boar tusk shoved into his chest the day before during a pig hunt.
Tiger evidently chased and cornered a huge wild boar, and grabbed his ear, the boar put his head between Tigers front legs and shoved upwards so that his tusk speared Tiger in the chest.....he then ran to find something like a tree to hold Tiger up against so that he could rip the dog apart. Honey then raced up and grabbed the pig on the other ear, and the two of them managed to get the pig onto the ground. By this time, Rob arrived on his motor bike and shot the pig dead. A particularly large boar he was telling me....stood nearly three feet high at the collar.
I think if he ever invites me to go along on a hunt with him, I'll quietly resign and stay at home with my own dogs. There ain't no way I'd ever subject my dogs to that.
Tiger nearly bled to death on the return home trip, and Rob had to continually stop to apply pressure bandages to the hole. He was out cleaning his ute today.....the back tray was covered in Tigers blood.
It's a shame tho.....what some people do with their dogs.

[pomtzu]

If I may be so stupid to ask - what is a pig dog??? :confused: Obviously they specialize in hunting pigs, but what do they look like?

Did your neighbor's dog survive the attack? Poor dog!!!:(

[Bonny]

Are they maybe hounds? I know of outfitters that use hounds to tree big cats in trees out West. We use to have hog dogs when we had pigs on the farm. They were herding dogs that would help round up the hogs if they got out into the fields or helped us load the butcher hogs. The barking & herding them into the trailer was a must. Boar pigs have terrible husks & can slice you open in no time. We had a boar pig that would come after us he was real territorial with his ladies & we ended up selling him. I hope the dog will be all right & doesn't get infection. Hopefully you neighbor took him to the veterinary.

[lvpets2002]

:( How so Sad & in the same Disgusting.. Yes they are most of the time some type of Hound Dog.. A pig dog can be really of any breed & then they are taught from a young age to hunt the wild hogs..

[Bonny]

You have wild hog hunting down their in Texas? The hogs can do a lot of damage & will eat humans if they get them down. When the hog market prices were down, farmers were letting their hogs go to fend on their own & they multiplied in the wild. Hogs can have up to 17 young at a time if they are flushed (been on a good diet) & generally have 12 table settings to raise their young.

[lvpets2002]

:) Yes on my River Front Farm Property I have lots of Wild Hogs.. However I also Have Hunters that Shoot them.. I do not under no condition allow Dogs used to hunt them.. If I catch any of my Hunters using Dogs & Not Guns then they will have charges filed on them..
You have wild hog hunting down their in Texas? The hogs can do a lot of damage & will eat humans if they get them down. When the hog market prices were down, farmers were letting their hogs go to fend on their own & they multiplied in the wild. Hogs can have up to 17 young at a time if they are flushed (been on a good diet) & generally have 12 table settings to raise their young.

[Bonny]

Ivpets 2002 ,Glad to hear you lay the law down to your hunters. ;)

[aTailOf2Kitties]

i was watching some show just yesterday where they were culling wild pigs in Australia. There was a dog involved but he was outfited with a heavily padded chest and neck guard to protect from tusks and hooves.

[Medusa]

Wow, there's so much that I don't know. I had no idea.

[Karen]

How very sad. I hope he'll never subject his dogs to that again without some sort of protection!

[Catlady711]

My gosh, poor Tigger! I hope the guy at least had the sense to take the poor dog to the vet!

[wombat2u2004]

Tiger is getting better. I walked out this morning and he was out of his kennel and playing with Honey. Rob has him on antibiotics, and seem to be working ok.
I'm not sure if Rob fits him with a chest guard on hunts, I must ask him. I do know tho that both Tiger and Honey are fitted with tracking devices, because the distance between themselves and Rob on the bike can be many miles.
As for breed, Tiger has Wolfhound in him, but certainly a mixture of breeds for that particular vocation....Honey is a Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Sometimes when Rob goes away, we have to feed them in the evening, and as soon as I walk in the gate, both of them are onto me, jumping up on me because they know they are about to get fed....and they are both bloody heavy. Karen has given up on that, they've managed to floor her a couple of times already....LOL.

[Twisterdog]

OMG. All I can think of is "Ol' Yeller". :(

[smokey the elder]

Boar hunting, from what I have heard, is very dangerous. Hogs are highly intelligent and aren't afraid to use it. But I hear they're good eatin'! I'm glad Tiger is OK, and hope he will take better precautions in the future.

[Savannahrose]

Ugh! Why so cruel? It's cruel. Plain cruel. ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE BOOK, "OLD YELLER" ! Glad to hear he is getting better though

[wombat2u2004]

Ugh! Why so cruel? It's cruel. Plain cruel. ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE BOOK, "OLD YELLER" ! Glad to hear he is getting better though

I know. But Rob hunts pigs, and I guess his best allies are his dogs. They are born and bred to it.
Pigs are quite a problem around here, they will eat anything, including the young of many endangered marsupial species....so we have to keep the pig numbers down.

[snakemama]

Several people on another board I follow use their dogs in boar hunting. They're a great teammate to have on your side, and the pigs can be so dangerous...they're doing a service for the people around them by reducing the numbers of pigs.

There are places where wild boars are a huge problem where gunfire is not allowed. Wild boars do an estimated $800 million in damage per year.

As has been mentioned, wild pigs are SMART. Even a hunter with a gun can be caught off guard. Having a dog whose keen senses can give you better warning of the pig's approach is MUCH safer for the people involved.

[wombat2u2004]

Several people on another board I follow use their dogs in boar hunting. They're a great teammate to have on your side, and the pigs can be so dangerous...they're doing a service for the people around them by reducing the numbers of pigs.

There are places where wild boars are a huge problem where gunfire is not allowed. Wild boars do an estimated $800 million in damage per year.

As has been mentioned, wild pigs are SMART. Even a hunter with a gun can be caught off guard. Having a dog whose keen senses can give you better warning of the pig's approach is MUCH safer for the people involved.

800 mil ??? My God. I have no idea what the estimated cost of damage is here.

[snakemama]

800 mil ??? My God. I have no idea what the estimated cost of damage is here.

According to this article, (http://www.mla.com.au/Livestock-production/Animal-health-welfare-and-biosecurity/Invasive-animals) Impact of Invasive Animals in Australia in 2004 estimated the cost of feral pig damage to be around $110 million per year to Australian farmers.

[wombat2u2004]

According to this article, (http://www.mla.com.au/Livestock-production/Animal-health-welfare-and-biosecurity/Invasive-animals) Impact of Invasive Animals in Australia in 2004 estimated the cost of feral pig damage to be around $110 million per year to Australian farmers.

I think I'd better go pig hunting with Rob and his dogs :D