Unconventional bird dogs

Thats hilarious!!!.... Than again I used to hunt boar in Hawaii when I was a teenager with a bunch of locals who used pit bulls. In essence any dog that has hunting instincts and the desire, can be a hell of a hunting partner regardless of what people tell you. Got my bobcat with my husky... tracked a wounded bull with my husky and hunt a ridgeback for pheasants, grouse, chukar and quail!
 
I had a Beagle with a fantastic nose and swear he would go right past hens once he realized rosters were the target. His legs were not long enough to get too far ahead and he could go down under big piles of tumbleweed and follow the pheasant tunnels under there. He was one of the best "upland" dogs I've ever hunted with.
 
A friend of mine had a huge German Shepard that he would bring along. That dog learned how to hunt from my lab, and actually was pretty good.He would get fooled by roosters a lot, but flushed birds pretty well, and sctually retrieved well.It was the dammdest thing I'd ever seen.
 
Used my olde English bulldogge for years b4 I got my small munsterlander she had no nose for birds lol but could dig out birds buried under grass believe it or not...

Shot ruffed & spruce grouse with her & prairie chickens & pheasant ran to downed birds & drools on them will not pick them up or retrieve them just stands on them looking happy as she could be...
 
Wow- a bulldog? This German Shepard was actually a good retriever. He really got into it, once he went on a few hunts, and figured it out.I taught hid owner how to hunt as well.City boy, from New Jersey .
 
Goosemaster said:
Wow- a bulldog? This German Shepard was actually a good retriever. He really got into it, once he went on a few hunts, and figured it out.I taught hid owner how to hunt as well.City boy, from New Jersey .
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Picture a rotwiler sized bulldog the original bulldog... She has only 1 or 2 walks in her but she gives it her all lol at 10 she still walked a Nebraska quail field with me this past January...

Awesome dogs & yes I'm probably considered a city boy also we learn slower is all...
 
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Picture a rotwiler sized bulldog the original bulldog... She has only 1 or 2 walks in her but she gives it her all lol at 10 she still walked a Nebraska quail field with me this past January...

Awesome dogs & yes I'm probably considered a city boy also we learn slower is all...
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That's pretty cool, I didn't know a bull dog could hunt.I saw a guy years ago, hunting with a beagle, out by glendive. That was strange. You know- that dude from New Jersey turned out to be a decent Hunter , after several years of training. When I first started hunting with him, he was very dangerous. He never took hunters safety , and I had to loan him a gun, because he was poor.One time, he was twirling it around like a baton!!I had to really get on him about gun safety.He owned a big German Shepard , and I just said, whatever, bring him along..lol
 
It is fun watching unconventional hunting dogs figure out their role. Prey drive is in all of them, just a matter of tuning it in I think? I have successfully hunted phez behind an Australian cattle dog. The Kansas farmer who owned the land and dog liked to put it in the field with us when we hunted his property. It would flush and retrieve, and on occasion, eat the whole bird prior to bringing it back. Those counted against the farmer's limit :)
 
I always thought herding dogs had potential. Their so good at covering ground and trying to please you. I would have loved to have seen that!
 
merriammonster said:
I always thought herding dogs had potential. Their so good at covering ground and trying to please you. I would have loved to have seen that!
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LOL, me and my brother both looked at each other and smiled the first time we saw it, but when the dog started covering a lot of ground very quickly (they are fast) and flushing birds we shot em! The farmer uses the dog to help him move cattle too. Farmers; they make do with what they have don't they!!
 
I seen some mutts out there chasing pheasants that would put a lot of high end dogs to shame.... Those mutts all they wanted to do was please their owners.

It just takes desire from the owner!
 
As long as they don't run out ahead of gun range, i would welcome any dog in the field. More feet that travel a whole lot further than any of us ever will.
 
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