Best Ranch Dog

[Hardcastle]

I find the continental herders somewhat perplexing. German shepherds, Dutch shepherds, Belgian shepherds, etc. It's weird but they almost don't strike me as farm dogs. However, they obviously are. Just farm dogs for people very different to myself and everyone I know. They seem actually somewhere between herding dog and LGD.
Collies and curs make sense to me. No issue.

Having said that, a good friend of mine grew up on a farm and had a GSD x rott and it was a solid farm dog in many ways. Didn't really do herding or actual hunting but took guarding/patrolling fairly seriously and also would hunt for itself to supplement it's diet. Would ambush and eat birds that that would land in the paddocks to forage.

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Feb 19, 2023 22:08:29 GMT Hardcastle said:

I find the continental herders somewhat perplexing. German shepherds, Dutch shepherds, Belgian shepherds, etc. It's weird but they almost don't strike me as farm dogs. However, they obviously are. Just farm dogs for people very different to myself and everyone I know. They seem actually somewhere between herding dog and LGD.
Collies and curs make sense to me. No issue.

Having said that, a good friend of mine grew up on a farm and had a GSD x rott and it was a solid farm dog in many ways. Didn't really do herding or actual hunting but took guarding/patrolling fairly seriously and also would hunt for itself to supplement it's diet. Would ambush and eat birds that that would land in the paddocks to forage.

What are Kelpies used to hunt on the side? Curious.

[Hardcastle]

Pigs, goats, rabbits, scrub cattle, deer, foxes, feral dogs, feral cats, quail, kangaroos, wallabies...

Not saying they are good at any of the above but they can help a guy hunt those things.

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Feb 19, 2023 22:30:18 GMT Hardcastle said:

Pigs, goats, rabbits, scrub cattle, deer, foxes, feral dogs, feral cats, quail, kangaroos, wallabies...

Not saying they are good at any of the above but they can help a guy hunt those things.

We can’t hunt deer with dogs down here in the US unless we have scenthounds. Usually they have to pick scenthounds because its the closest thing to simply using a gun. That being said scenthounds still do sometimes do the job for them, as in jump them.

There are even rogue elk hunters calling for wolves to be eradicated. Thats how much herbivores are respected here. For some reason its this mentality that the elk are theirs, observing them like that. They get so much adrenaline from watching elk and hunting elk that when a wolf or a dog or something comes along they just wanna fucking kill everything.

So yeah, like I said, herbivores are respected here to the point im questioning humanity.

[Hardcastle]

Its hard to believe there's not someone, somewhere, in some random state, hunting deer with dogs the old fashioned way.









It's so backward to think this natural beautiful pasttime is wrong, but then you can go shoot a bear in the face, lol.

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May 30, 2023 5:08:35 GMT Hardcastle said:

Its hard to believe there's not someone, somewhere, in some random state, hunting deer with dogs the old fashioned way.






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It's so backward to think this natural beautiful pasttime is wrong, but then you can go shoot a bear in the face, lol.

Little does the government and those rogue elk hunters realize, by protecting these herbivores from literally any predator has impacts. Wolves used to be the apex predator of white tailed deer, until humans killed off wolves, and now they’ve became overgrown rats at this point. 

Its weird people let ungulates overpopulate like overgrown rats yet when a predator or a hog is overpopulated everyone jumps to automatically killing them.

[Musth]

Yep all of North America is like that, even more so Canada. I read the forums of hunters in Canada and most of them say they would shoot a dog that was chasing their deer…..

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May 30, 2023 5:08:35 GMT Hardcastle said:

Its hard to believe there's not someone, somewhere, in some random state, hunting deer with dogs the old fashioned way.






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Agreed Hardcastle. It's absurd. I was struggling to get up to go to work today because I was too busy contemplating the fact that there's not one place, one area, one man - that hunts deer the old-fashioned away. It's astounding, honestly.

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Sorry...I'm going to have to take a short break, I'm being overwhelmed by the raw emotions that I'm currently experiencing after having seen this post...