Using dogs for sheds!

[Michelle_Nelson]

I know I have seen this topic befor but. . . . I found 2 article in 2 different hunting magazines talking about using dogs.  I don't know the names of the magazines off the top of my head but I will post the names later tonight.    

[Jerbear]

Michelle, I wish you had not mentioned this.  We are sure the game dept. checks this site, and now all hell will break loose. 
I know they are all huddled up in an office, with pens, paper, computers and calculators, just rubbing their hands together and jumping up and down.  now look for:

Canine shed hunting fee:  $50.00
Shed hunters punch card:  $25.00
Required  game dept issued canine collar and tag with the owners name and D.O.B, as well as the dogs name and D.O.B, plus religious preference of both dog and owner, plus make. model, and year of the vehicle used to tramsport said canine and owner:  $75.00 
I just wish you had not mentioned it.

 

[robodad]

Jerbear, Now you have done it !! 

Canine shed hunting fee:  $50.00
Shed hunters punch card:  $25.00
Required  game dept issued canine collar and tag with the owners name and D.O.B, as well as the dogs name and D.O.B, plus religious preference of both dog and owner, plus make. model, and year of the vehicle used to tramsport said canine and owner:  $75.00

If they weren't thinking about it before they sure are now !! Good Job buddy !!!

JK     

[Jerbear]

Robodad

I forgot to mention the $5.00 special permit application.  I feel so ashamed.  lol

[Red Dawg]

How many years will it take to get that tag.

[Michelle_Nelson]

HUNTING the West: attack of the grizzly!  The front cover has a guy holding a California Blacktail I beleive.  Pg 10 & 11.

Hunting ILLUSTRATED : THE BEST OF 2007  The front cover has 2 guys holding a huge 400 4/8 Archery 6x6 Bull Elk.  Pg 10

[MikeWalking]

Canine shed hunting fee:  $50.00
Shed hunters punch card:  $25.00
Required  game dept issued canine collar and tag with the owners name and D.O.B, as well as the dogs name and D.O.B, plus religious preference of both dog and owner, plus make. model, and year of the vehicle used to tramsport said canine and owner:  $75.00 

I forgot to mention the $5.00 special permit application

It gets BETTER

I just found a Press Release from WDFW. There is a new Reward Program for turning in people that suggest new animal aided tactics, even if they are eventually approved.

It's $75.00, Which will be $5 less than the cost Jerbear "discovered"

they'll always find a way to get'ya huh?

[robodad]

Just for the record, I don't own a dog, thank you !! 

[Skyvalhunter]

For the record I have a dog and have the shed ready

[Wea300mag]

There is a story in the latest Bugle Magazine about shed hunting dogs, they sell for $5K each. OUCH!!!

[billythekidrock]

 I was a kid I used to hang out at a little league park and one day a stray lab was following us around. We had a baseball and were playing catch and the ball ened up in the woods. While we were looking for it the dog followed and found an old baseball. Someone threw that old ball back in the woods and the dog came back with a newer one. We started to fake the dog out by pretending to throw the ball and within minutes he would come back with a ball. Pretty soon we had a half dozen balls and the dog was not falling for it anymore. So I would pretend to throw the ball while another kid was throwing rocks. The dog would hear the rocks and go look again. We ended up with a 5 gallon bucket full of baseballs which we sold to a coach for a quarter a piece. Never did see that dog again.

I think if you are willing to let your pup work over a few sheds as a treat (like cop dogs and ball or rags) you should be able to get one trained. Take a shed with you on your hunt and pretend to toss it in the woods for the dog to find and if there are any around it should find them.

[boneaddict]

Thats not the only can of worms she opened.  How about the fee or fine when you blast a 5K dog for running deer in the spring, then find out he was with his owner. 

[Red Dawg]

I could have used a dog yesterday. I could not find anything but a pile of dead deer that looked like they had been poached. Saw a lot of deer though and they all looked really good and fat. I also saw a Martin which I have never seen before. They are a very cool little animal.

[boneaddict]

A Martin...wow that is a treat.  Very secretive critters.  I was drooling over the weather and wishing I was out shedding, but decided to save the gas and enjoy the time with my family.  I picked up my daughter that doesn't live with us, and we flew kites, played soccer, shot bows and the new 410.  She enjoyed that.  I put one of those ground hog targets out there and my wife and her plinked away at it.  I have to remember that just because it is this nice in Yakima, there is still 4 feet of snow where I shed.  We thought about going out today, by Moses, but the wind and rain will keep us inside I think.  Maybe I'll get those taxes done, or another taxidermy project.

[Red Dawg]

we just went to get out of the house. I have been cooped up for way to long. The good spots still have to much snow.