Chris had travelled up from Invercargil with his two bitches Zoey and Pip to give them some extra training and also Chris wanted to see how I went about my training. His two bitches were not big dogs so I took them both into the small pig block together for their first run with Fog and we bailed the black and white boar. Both bitches were a bit standoffish, they would bail when another dog was in there but each time I called my dog out they would not stay with the boar. They got to see every pig in the block.
Each boar has a different temperament, Mr Pig is old and slow, the black and white boar likes to run back to the A frame that he sleeps in to try and hide. He has a very good jaw on him. Boris the grey boar just runs when he has a dog on him and he does not like to stand still for to long. Digger is a very lazy pig and wont run or fight a dog and is only good for starting a quite dog. The white boar on the other hand is a very good scrapper and he always makes dogs bail. One of the high light bails for me was when Lightning went up the hill and bailed the white boar, white sow, her six young ones and my newest pet boar Snuffles. While this bail was going on the white sow was trying to get young Snuffles and throw him out at the dogs. The whole time Lightning was focused on the white boar and after half an hour I went in and broke the white boar out and got the dogs to bail him down in the creek.
In the evening we went for a walk down my drive to the waterfall with my dogs. On the way back Jeff bailed two possums in separate trees. We did not have a gun so we threw a few stones at them. Chris got a perfect hit and knocked on of the possums out and Jeff grabbed it and killed it then brought it up to us. The whole while my pig dogs were standing on the track beside us watching.
In the morning my son Bryce and his girlfriend Megan came up to lend Fog for the day to see if he could get a boar for the Temuka pig hunting competition this weekend. They were back in about three hours with a 126 pound boar all smiles.