Hamish has been up a couple of times before so knows what to expect when he arrives. We gave Indy a good run through the main block with Lightning and my young pup Snow. As time went on we could see Indy’s confidence growing as she wanted to stay on Boris longer.
After training we took the two four wheelers out for a ride through the forestry with Fog, Thunder and Indy. At one point Fog was out at 380 meters and he was stationary for quite some time but we could not hear any barking which I think could have been a small pig that he would not bark at. After a while Indy went up to where Fog had been and gave a couple of barks then returned to us. I have watched Fog a number of times now just look at smaller pigs and not go and bark at them. I would like to think that this comes back to his training as he does not touch my smaller pigs at home. It was good to give the old four wheeler a last run with a good bugger before my son Sloan takes it. A memory that I will remember for a long time.
Something that I do not normally do is let somebody else use any of my pig dogs. Over the years there have only been two people that I have ever trusted taking my dogs out without me and that is Keith Garaway and my son Bryce, so it has been a big decision for me and something that I had been thinking about for a while was to let Hamish take my younger dog Thunder home with him for the next three months to help him to get Indy onto more pigs. I would like to think that this will be a win win situation for both Hamish and Thunder. Thunder has always acted young and seen himself as the pup, but recently since getting Snow Thunder has had to grow up but he still has the problem with Fog out finding him all of the time so he needs to learn to get out there and do some of the work for himself. Hamish has promised to keep me updated on how Thunder is going. The only two conditions that I gave Hamish was to get him out hunting regularly and always have a tracking collar on him when hunting.