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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 5:21:16 GMT
Yeah, weirdly here we get nothing but bulldogs while Australian dogs are crossed to sighthound to catch multiple pigs in one go. Even though sighthounds mean a bigger, faster dog and harder hit which would be useful here. I think I might stay here and blow everyone's mind with Hairy Arabs for a bit, or at least vacation and leave some here. That's if I get a good job and live in Montana. I'd do quite well with bulldogs and sighthounds, yes. We have a lot of bulldogs here as I said, and there's a lot of choices. I could get a pitbull, catahoula bulldog, ambull, dogo, mutt etc. for free. So if I do go homeless I don't need to spend shit to get a boar dog. Bwaha already plannning your future homelessness lol XD I'll live in a tent in the forest, hope I don't get eaten by gators and try to figure out a way to cook boars. Then I'd go to the library every now and then to check in on you guys. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 5:42:28 GMT
Bwaha already plannning your future homelessness lol XD I'll live in a tent in the forest, hope I don't get eaten by gators and try to figure out a way to cook boars. Then I'd go to the library every now and then to check in on you guys. Instead get fucking well-off and buy your own forest. Become a wealthy businessman and do dogs as main hobby on the side. I've had the same ideas and tried them too, but it doesn't end up working out over the longer-term like it does in our dreams or in books of days gone by. Honestly in today's world if I were to live like that I'd go third-world, wouldn't do it in today's first-world countries. Way too many fences, and where there's no fences there's too many Park rules, too much discouraging that kind of lifestyle in 21st Century first-world country. When I was a child they said "He'll either be a genius or a bum". Fortunately I became the former. You can too :-p Hey just a question, is this cool talking off-topic here, just that I'm not so familiar with the rules yet and I know on some forums it's not condoned. I probably should look for the forum rules and read them. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 5:45:50 GMT
I'll live in a tent in the forest, hope I don't get eaten by gators and try to figure out a way to cook boars. Then I'd go to the library every now and then to check in on you guys. Instead get fucking well-off and buy your own forest. Become a wealthy businessman and do dogs as main hobby on the side. I've had the same ideas and tried them too, but it doesn't end up working out over the longer-term like it does in our dreams or in books of days gone by. Honestly in today's world if I were to live like that I'd go third-world, wouldn't do it in today's first-world countries. Way too many fences, and where there's no fences there's too many Park rules, too much discouraging that kind of lifestyle in 21st Century first-world country. When I was a child they said "He'll either be a genius or a bum". Fortunately I became the former. You can too :-p Hey just a question, is this cool talking off-topic here, just that I'm not so familiar with the rules yet and I know on some forums it's not condoned. I probably should look for the forum rules and read them. There are no forum rules. Lol. Nobody really cares if a thread is derailed if it promotes good discussion. Yes that sounds like a good idea, I would just want to have a good amount of time to do dogs. Instead of working 9-5 and then sleeping, rinse and repeat, and being a shit dog caretaker. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 6:12:03 GMT
Instead get fucking well-off and buy your own forest. Become a wealthy businessman and do dogs as main hobby on the side. I've had the same ideas and tried them too, but it doesn't end up working out over the longer-term like it does in our dreams or in books of days gone by. Honestly in today's world if I were to live like that I'd go third-world, wouldn't do it in today's first-world countries. Way too many fences, and where there's no fences there's too many Park rules, too much discouraging that kind of lifestyle in 21st Century first-world country. When I was a child they said "He'll either be a genius or a bum". Fortunately I became the former. You can too :-p Hey just a question, is this cool talking off-topic here, just that I'm not so familiar with the rules yet and I know on some forums it's not condoned. I probably should look for the forum rules and read them. There are no forum rules. Lol. Nobody really cares if a thread is derailed if it promotes good discussion. Yes that sounds like a good idea, I would just want to have a good amount of time to do dogs. Instead of working 9-5 and then sleeping, rinse and repeat, and being a shit dog caretaker. That suits me as I'm really bad for going off topic, so I don't have to change. Yeah also good if you don't do the 9 - 5 working-slave gig spending all your time basically making other people wealthy. Please order a book called "The Millionaire Fastlane" by M.J. DeMarco. While the title sounds like gimmicky get-rich-quick bullshit, it's actually not at all. I've read some fairly good books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, but The Millionaire Fastlane is way more legit. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Dec 14, 2022 7:27:28 GMT
Yeah, weirdly here we get nothing but bulldogs while Australian dogs are crossed to sighthound to catch multiple pigs in one go. Even though sighthounds mean a bigger, faster dog and harder hit which would be useful here. I think I might stay here and blow everyone's mind with Hairy Arabs for a bit, or at least vacation and leave some here. That's if I get a good job and live in Montana. I'd do quite well with bulldogs and sighthounds, yes. We have a lot of bulldogs here as I said, and there's a lot of choices. I could get a pitbull, catahoula bulldog, ambull, dogo, mutt etc. for free. So if I do go homeless I don't need to spend shit to get a boar dog. Bwaha already plannning your future homelessness lol XD Lol yeah saying shit like that can be a self fullfilling prophecy and make it come true. No bolushi, you will be a mighty wealthy rancher who gazes over his endless bounty of land and rules over all the beasts therein with his trusty hounds. Just get a job when you can and start saving and investing, also following your dreams, making videos, writing, something will kick off. Keep a clean criminal record and you'll be fine. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 7:49:45 GMT
Bwaha already plannning your future homelessness lol XD Keep a clean criminal record and you'll be fine. No promises 👀 ''Florida man sets dog on indian, bludgeons him to death in a racist attack.'' |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 22:50:39 GMT
Haven't done pig dogging myself and hardly any pig dogging in the family apart from a couple of uncles on mum's side joining in on some hunts with mates in a casual way. My pop had greyhounds and was an enthusiatic track guy. And a great uncle on the same side had race horses. But my pop's main gig was actually birds, he got into birds from his father and ended up having about the best exotic bird collection in the Hunter and was well-regarded in the Australian industry for his birds. Was even visited by the celebrity veternarian Dr Harry Cooper. Pop was a mean old bastard but treated his birds like gold, had about 30 averies and would go out bush twice a week and bring back garbage bags of sugar ants nests for the birds, as well as cooking boiled eggs everyday and crushing them up for them, on top of the seeds. When he got too old to go bush he bred maggots for the birds. He's gone and so are the averies, but in today's money his birds must have been worth in the millions. I think they were pretty much exotic birds, smaller ones. My family on dad's side were also bushies and had dogs, so going back into my grandfather's generation and before they might have used their dogs for pigging, not quite sure. I remember visiting my great uncles back in the 80s and they had a big row of kennels of really berserk completely unsocialized dogs that just wanted to rip the guts out of everyone besides their owners. They had to be kept in kennels all the time they were so unsocialized. By that point my great uncles were getting old so wouldn't have been able to hunt, just walked the dogs once a day. Haha, were they wild birds or birds he bought? Do you plan on pig dogging once you're able to have dogs? a while back you asked whether my pop collected wild birds and I answered no. But I was talking to mum about pop's birds this morning and learnt this wasn't exactly true. He was a exclusively a finch collector and officially collected and bred exotic (non-Australian) finches. However on the quiet he would personally make trips around Australia and catch wild finches that were indigenous only to those areas. Besides family, only bird collectors in his inner circle knew about them, when casuals would come to see the birds he'd have to hide the native finch eggs as they're easily identifible (as well as labelled). He took lots of trips around Australia over the course of many decades. He took one few-months trip to Cape York (tip of Northern Queensland), staying with the Aborigines to collect wild finches. Another trip up to the Olgas in the Northern Territory, to Western Australia... all over. Regarding the exotic finches they cost a bunch. In the 1960s - 70s a typical exotic mating pair he'd buy for around $1,000 AUD, which in today's money is 13,000 AUD/9,000 USD. However one time he bought a pair of Green Singers  ![]() ![]() which cost $3,000 (48,000 AUD/33,000 USD today). His missus (my nanna) went off about the green singers but pop always did want he wanted. He was only a miner so not well-off at all. The largest finches he had were Cardinals, which were just a little larger than other finches.  ![]() ![]() And the prettiest were Gouldians, which mum said were absolutely stunning like they were finished with a paint brush  ![]() ![]() I also have to make another correction in that I said pop would go bush and bring back sugar ant nests to feed the birds. In fact they weren't sugar ants, but white ants (termites). I'll go and edit my previous post about that shortly. He'd go bush a couple times a week and bring home white ant nests in heshian bags. He had these trough structures made of tiles with water around the sides like a moat. The white ant nests would go in the middle island so the ants couldn't escape the surrounding water. They also had roofs, these birds were very well looked after and valued. I thought they were sugar ants because one time when I was real little I remember pop bringing sugar ants back home from the bush and showing me how nice they are to eat, you hold the heads/pinchers between your fingers so they can't bite and you bite off the bum, which tastes like honey. The white ants I knew but the fact had slipped my mind over the intervening years. |
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