Hunting with a non-hunting breed?

[entropy]

I had a friend tell me Rat Terriers were great squirrel hunting dogs. So I took mine out with me. Didn't see any squirrels, but I saw a woodchuck, and I shot it. (headshot @25 yards with a 12 ga.) I had to drag him over to the woodchuck, and he just whimpered and licked the wound. Some hunter!

He was a great bug hunter, though. Loved to chase flies, roaches, and a scorpion that got into the trailer we were in at the time. I grabbed his collar and threw him out of the way, while trapping the scorpion under a coffee table book I was reading. I slid the book back so the body was out, but the tial trapped under it. SWMBO got a hammer and pounded it into mush.

 

[dcloco]

A true RANCH blue healer and an Angus bull. THE BEST hunting companions a 9 year old city kid, who's mom married rancher, could ever hope for. Prairie dogs, skunk, badger, prairie chickens, or coyote. The bull was better in the tall grass....as he could see over the tall grass, point (believe it or not - he would stop and keep looking at whatever was in front of us)....and this would alert the blue healer to hop and charge ahead.

 

[T.R.]

I used to hunt pheasants with our Airedale dog. It would flush and retrieve just like a Springer Spaniel.

TR

 

[alsaqr]

Chucky is a great dog.

Poodles have really good noses. Our poodle Suzi often trees squirrels in the back yard. She follows them as they jump from tree to tree. Would take her squirrel hunting but the coyotes here would soon have her for supper.

 

[Patocazador]

The best squirrel dog I ever saw was a Jack Russell-cocker spaniel cross. She was owned by a couple of pre-teen brothers. Those kids always had a mess of squirrels.

 

[buck460XVR]

The bull was better in the tall grass....as he could see over the tall grass, point (believe it or not - he would stop and keep looking at whatever was in front of us)

This reminds of bowhunting years ago on the edge of the cow pasture. I didn't have to watch for deer, other than in the woods behind me. I only had to watch the milk cows. If something entered the field in an area where I couldn't/wouldn't see, their posture would tell me.