Tag Archives: hunting dog

The deer season is here and we have been in eight calls so far, seven deer and a bear. In all the calls our dogs have tried really hard to find the wounded deer or bear but with no successes, except in one call that we found one deer. Being a bit discouraged I thought  I’d share my tracking experiences and some of my opinions with our Doxielink visitors. What is for sure is that there are...

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Last night, before going at the annual Deer Search meeting I decided that I would go rabbit hunting. This would be my fourth time hunting since October 1st. As I will explain in the following hunting stories the first three times were unsuccessful. Last night I shot a rabbit within 30 min. The fact that all four times my dachshunds did not obey me raised the question of dependability on them, whether or not I should be using a shocking collar, and if there is an ideal shocking collar for dachshunds? The counter argument is that If...

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Today we took our dachshunds for a walk. Lately, we have been very busy and have not had time to let them go on a good run or take them for a walk. The girls (Mae and Mariel) where very happy to go on one with us. We live in Poughkeepsie and walking around the neighborhood one would not expect to see any wild game. However, we encountered some wild game for the dogs to use their noses. We came across some squirrels and a rabbit. The rabbit was a lot of fun to watch and was a bit...

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