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Chris I believe he will be the kind of kid that seems to never have to study and make straight A's. I remember my days at school and you had two kind of kids, one couldn't wait until school was out and when the last bell rang for summer break they tore out of there like wild horses and the other group cried because school was over until fall. Mason will miss it and probably cry when its over but his Paw Paw used to lead the herd of wild horses when that last bell rang! He has already said he wants to be a Doctor and I believe him. He has a genuine concern for people he knows that get hurt or have surgery of any kind. Might be the only way I could afford health care when I get older so I hope he stays the course, lol! You and Ole Wolf putting any up the trees or still bad hot out your way?

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Hey Steve I was the type that ran out of school too. After a couple weeks of working on the farm and in Dad's business, installing signs on 80 foot ladders I was ready to go back. Lol.
Funny how I miss working with dad now.

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Steve, I have been off here for a few days. Dropped my ole internet provider and picked up a new one. I just read your article on Stormy not eating. I usually put my females on puppy chow about 3 weeks before pups are born. I also at this time put 3 cc's of beer over their feed each day. I learned this from the Squerrel hunters. I kind of laughed about it when they first told me about it, but I don't laugh anymore because it works. I don't know what it does, but since I started doing it, I've not had a female that didn't give plenty of milk for the pups. As for her not eating, most of them will eat purina puppy chow. If they didn't eat good I would mix in scraps or whatever it took to get them back to eating. Usually once they start eating good its usually not that hard to get them back on regular feed. I use an Air Conditioner on mine too this time of year. I also use a built in whelping box that help especially the older females from laying on the pups and mashing them up against the wall. This is just some of the things I do with my females Steve. If there is anything I can help you with let me know. Wish you the best with Stormy and the pups.

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This is a picture of a limb I picked up in the yard yesterday loaded with acorns. We had a pretty stiff wind come through that blew down a few red oak and water oak limbs and all are loaded with the acorns. Going to be a bumper crop looks like so good for all wildlife.

Yea Chris I know what you mean about missing working with Dad or doing things like we used to do when we were younger and didn't like it so much. I wouldn't mind hauling a few loads of square hay bales and stacking in the loft of an old barn or picking off peanuts sitting on the tailgate of an old pickup truck. But I never missed school or ever wanted to go back. Didn't like being confined all day and still don't. I almost chose working in a Machine Shop on metal lathes and milling machine's over surveying but the thought of standing over the bed of that lathe for hours changed my mind. In school that was about the only class I liked and math. Wish now I would have paid more attention to History but if they weren't talking about Mountain Men or Indians I wasn't usually listening.

Thanks for the tips MR. Jack. I started mixing some puppy feed in with her other feed the other day and in a couple weeks she will get all puppy feed. I will have to use something other than beer though. Its been 4 years since I quit drinking and the way this job of mine has been going and the mood I come home with, well that beer if it was in the fridge might not make it to the dog pen, lol!

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Steve, I have had the same result with goats milk. A half cup on the bitches feed from a couple weeks from whelping until pups are weaned. I then keep the pups on it. Goats milk is highly digestible by every animal that I know. Cows milk in s for cows, goats milk for everything else. It doesn't have to be from a dairy goat either. I milked one of our boer goats for pups one time. We saved our dairy milk for us.

It won't make you fall off the wagon either. Accept you might get hooked on goats milk! Lol

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MR. Jack I think that beer on there food might work! Now that 3cc for the gyp and that should leave 11 oz. for me( I can't afford to waist anything here at the house) So is that once aday or 2 or maybe 3 times aday? I want her healthy I will do what ever it takes. I sure hope Budweiser will be ok. LOL

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A few weeks ago I told Mason he needed to color a picture for the upcoming Blue Book and today his Mom brought this painting over that Mason had done of BO treeing a coon in a lighting storm under a full moon. I thought it was awesome especially coming from my 4 year old hunting buddy. I will have Beverly scan it so we can send it off to be put in the Blue Book. Paw Paw is proud of his little buddy.

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Ole Stormy has been back to her old self the past few days. Eating good and bawling about dark wanting to go hunting. That heat was really getting to her but shes all good now and I'm positive she is going to have pups. We are excited and looking forward to the little ones. I'm hoping she has about 6 or so. I will be keeping a pair and I have 4 more spoken for. We got another weekend of work behind us and I have 2 more then will be back to normal. It can't get here quick enough. I'm tired but going to suck it up and turn BO and Briar loose tonight and see if they can tree a couple. Rain is around the area this evening so the temp is in the mid 70's. Lot better than the 90's like it has been.

Chris thanks for the compliment on Mason's picture. I'm sure Mom helped him some but it is a great picture and glad he loves his Paw Paw and Ole Bo as much as he does to take the time and paint that picture. I read where you and Jazz had a good hunt last night. How I wish we had the coons and corn yaw have. I'm going to make that trip someday and let Bo in on some of that fast action. Take Care and Good Hunting!

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Steve you were spot on. Love my new Ride. Dave

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That ranger is a great ride David, I ran one hard for several years and had no problems.

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Had a great hunt with both hounds tonight, one at the time. Cut Briar loose here at the house as they have been winding one during the day and when I have been taking them swimming they have been blowing up wanting to get loose. He struck near the cypress slough, moved the track up river about 300yds then swung back my way and hit the tree with 3 long bawls about 200yds from me. He hushed a minute then climbed back on it but didn't like it. I made my way to him and he got back on it when I got near. I saw the coon setting up in this big cypress on my way in so I went to Briar and petted and loved him up and got him treeing pretty good then knocked the coon out to him. Took him back to the house and put him up and loaded BO on 4 wheeler. His story and pictures are next.....

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Took BO to a new place that I hunted first of the year a couple times but haven't been back in a while. Its the Haunted House Bottom where me an BO felt like something was behind us one time. Anyway we ain't scared of no Ghost so back we went. Cut him down the spring creek that goes through the swamp to the river a half mile away but BO hadn't gone just over a 100yds and I saw him cut hard right on the Garmin. Yea I know, I watch the screen to much but you can sure learn a lot about a hound with that Garmin. He started locating and I could tell he was winding a layup and he just kept locating over and over so I made my way to him. I was about 30yds from him and spotted the coon laid out on a big limb looking at me with both eyes. They were wide apart so I knew it was a big one. I took this picture, turned the red light off and the white light back on to go pet BO up before I shot the coon out and had took two steps when I saw something move right in front of me that made me stop dead in my tracks. Picture and story coming up next....

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This is NOT ZOOMED IN!!! He was right there and as you can tell he has his head drew back and was waiting on that one more step and I guarantee he was going to pop me. I eased the camera out, took a couple pictures then blew his head off with my Ruger 22. I shot him 3 times to make sure and even though BO quit treeing a few seconds listening for the thump of the coon hitting the ground he never left that tree and went right back to treeing I guess thinking I was just a bad shot. I found the coon again and went ahead and put him down and we came on home. Both coons were Boar coons tonight and I was glad of that. Action was fast and furious tonight with a near deadly encounter, Adrenaline Rush from two hounds on two trees with two coon and a mad snake. That's why I Coon Hunt!

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Bo's Coon from tonight. It was a layup and he looked good. Anytime you have a young hound that hasn't been out in a week except to swim and you cut them for the first time and they fall treed a hundred yards away on a layup with the coon and hold the pressure of shots fired 30yds away as you kill a snake and never budge, that's a COONHOUND in my book. Don't mean to brag but I love this hound.

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Hello Steve,
Nice pics and great stories keep both of them coming. I enjoy looking at and reading your thread.

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I knew I shouldn't have bragged on BO last night. I caught him sleeping with a possum this morning, lol!! Well, not exactly. I had heard him a little while after I went to bed early this morning he was booger barking a little so I got up and hollered out the window for him to hush and he did. I went out there about 7am and fed them and started setting more forms under their houses where I'm going to pour concrete for the new pup pen. He started that booger barking again and kept going in and out of his house and looking at me. Thinking it might be a king snake or chicken snake in there I climbed up on his porch for a look. Little possum hadn't been touched, BO knows he might get a whooping if he fooled with one, even if its sleeping with him! Maybe I need to change the Kennel name from Bogue Chitto Blues to Possum Holler! I took care of the possum and got him out of there and BO went to scratching the wood chips where the possum had been slinging them out the opening of his house. Smart hounds don't like the smell of possum any where near them and he was getting rid of the evidence, lol! Can't help but love that hound even if he sleeps with a possum from time to time! Little possum is in the right corner, a little hard to see from the shadows.

Dave I knew you would love that Ranger, the pups will to maybe to much. You can spoil them with a ride like that, Take Care.

Gary, thanks for the compliments on the stories and pictures. I like taking good pictures if I can get them. It makes the story that much more interesting and believable.

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That sure is odd that Bo had a possum in the pen with him. What's up with these possums? We have had two different possum in th pin the last week and half. Both were untouched. But both had gotten in the pen with Ole Case, had they crossed over to Gus's pen they sure would have been smoked. They both have gone to a better place now.

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Briar had one get in his pen about a month ago and he took care of business in a few seconds. I think this possum got into Bo's pen while we were out hunting and when I put Bo up he was in Bo's house. Bo will dive right into a bad, mad coon but he left this possum alone and I truly feel like the reason he did is the first time he treed one last summer I got onto him and made it clear that I didn't like possum hounds, lol. Every time we are on 4 wheeler and pass one on side road I am always saying No! No! as we pass. He has never treed but that one and I feel this is why he didn't kill the possum. Some folks might think BS and I would have to before I have seen the things out of this hound I have seen. He is super smart for a dog of ANY kind. I guess the possums are hungry and looking for something to eat and smelling the dog feed. I used to have a feeder about 100yds from the house but got tired of being woke up in the night by Bo bawling when he was winding the coons on the feeder or hearing them bump around on the bucket so I quit putting feed in it a long time ago. These possums were probably in line on that bucket and when I cut their buffet out they came looking for it.

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He knew that possum needs a place to call home. Not only is he smart but he has big heart too. He was probably just giving you the heads up to bring extra feed out. Hospitality can only go so far.

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Picture of Briar from last night on the big cypress tree. Looks good in the picture but still needing work on the treeing. Just don't stick it enough to suite me. Hopefully steady hunting and cooler weather will bring him around.

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Took Bo and Briar across the road from the house tonight and cut them down the cypress slough toward the river. Bo got in over 750yds and started locating and locked down treed. Briar was almost 600 and hadn't struck so he picked up and went to him and treed some but didn't really hammer it. I made my way to them and it took awhile to find my beaver dam crossing. Glad its cooled down some or they would have been really hot. Got in there and they were treeing on big vines going into a nice size water oak and I found the coon laid up in first big fork. He never looked just curled up in the fork. I petted them up and came out and took them to Haunted House Bottom. They were over 400yds when they struck a decent track in a swamp bottom and moved it pretty good for about 10 minutes then got up on him and had him rolling. Briar hit the tree 2 locates ahead of Bo and they both blew the top out. I was able to get through a gate and ride a trail to within 100yds of them. They were on a big tupelo gum that the top had broke out about 30' up and bushed out with limbs. The coon was setting in that broke part looking nervous so I figured it was a sow coon so I left her alone. Petted up my hounds for doing a good job and came on in. Supposed to get into the 60's at night next week so I'm really looking forward to that. We work this weekend and should finish next weekend, just in time for cooler weather and some good hunting. I'm really going to miss Briar when he goes to Troy's but we all know a working man can only have time to put into one to bring him to peak performance and I'm not setting Bo to put time into Briar so I'm doing whats best for both hounds letting Troy hunt the heck out of Briar. It will do him a lot of good because he is about to turn 13 months old and can tree his on coon so its time to push him to make the most of what he's got to offer. He looked good tonight and didn't leave either tree or meet me off them. He is getting a little better and that's what I like to see. Don't mind putting the time and miles in one as long as I see progress, Good Hunting!

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This was first tree tonight. I videoed the 2nd tree where Briar was really hammering but I had it on slow motion setting instead of video and messed it up. Oh well, plenty more nights of BOYS NIGHT OUT!

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Picture of Ole MaMa today after a little walk. I get her out everyday for a little while because once she has those pups she will be with them 24/7 for the first few weeks. I'm going to guess and say she will have 7 pups, 4 males and 3 females, that's what I want her to have anyway. That would be a perfect size litter. They are due 3 weeks from today.

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I think she took! Been waiting to see this picture. Two and half weeks to go!

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