New Dog In Oregon, Usa...

[Dan McDonough 560]

This is a dog that was brought to my attention lately. He's in Eastern Oregon but was brought up here from Argentina. It's a Greyhound crossed with and Airedale but the Airedale has a bit of pit in it. It's an interesting dog that is doing some work on bobcats. He sure is a good looking sucker.

 

[pip1968 2,490]

lovely looking dog dan looks similar to an irish terrier x or wheaten x

[D Lloyd 2,790]

nice lloking typ must have some balls for them big cats

[bird 9,868]

how big are them bobcats,? are they same size as a fox .? i know the lynx is fair size cat, does it kill'em or hold them with hounds ?

[jack68 628]

Very much like a wheaten x any picks of it in action ..

[sailor30 658]

^{yous fella like the airdales in ya dogs looks a nice animal like}

[birddog 1,354]

strong looking mutt

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Lovely strong looking animal that.

 

Never seen a beddy cross or wheaten cross with feet like that. They look outstanding.

[Dan McDonough 560]

pip 1968- That's what I thought.

 

D Lloyd- I'm not sure it's been on cougars but I don't think it would have much problem with bobcats.

 

bird- I don't know it's level of fight but I would imagine it kills from what I've seen out of other Airedales. Bobcats vary in size from region to region. Out West a large one is in the lower 30's (13 kg.). Here in the Northern Great Lakes Region large stars at 40 lbs. (18 kg.) and it's the same in the Northeast. I've seen 50+ lb. (22 kg.+) cats taken here.

 

jack68- This is the only picture of the dog that I know of.

 

Gaz_1989- Good point.

 

This dog is not all that old from what I know. It's got a fantastic head for looks and purpose. For me, it was very exciting to hear about because I don't know of another person that is hunting a lurcher on bobcats. For those that don't know, I have a litter of stag x boarder collies that are about 3 1/2 months old that I plan on hunting bobcats with along with my leopard hounds. It is nice to hear about someone else doing it and to see what kind of success they are having. I think that my lurchers should be able to handle the rigors of hunting bobcats and have the brains to lock one down. Bobcats are notorious for being hard to catch. Over here bobcats are considered the second hardest animal to tree with a dog with the grey fox being the hardest (based on the difficulty of the chase and not the fight). I don't know what kind of job they'll be able to do on an day old track or how much voice they're likely to give on a track (my guess is not much). I do think that with the boarder collie brains in their head, they ought to be able to learn how the bobcat works fairly well. We'll see!! The dog above gives me some encouragement that I'm onto something. If anyone out there knows someone that is hunting lurchers on bobcats or lynx anywhere else shoot me a message, I'm all ears.

[bluecollar 104]

That is my dog. that picture was taken when we were running out side of Brothers Oregon. He is from Illinois and was bred by Rob Craver and is a littermate to Dans Junior dog. Stag x Bull/Airedale. he has never been run on bobcats but I used his brother to and used to use some Jagds to bolt bobs from the rocks. We used Walkers to run cats. Lurchers came in case

[bluecollar 104]

We ran bears to get them to tree ASAP. lurchers are not good at running cats. once the bob was jumped the lurchers would try to course it but in the snow they just ended up loosing steam.

[bluecollar 104]

His name is Boone and he wasn't even a yr old. make sure of your info before yoy start posting pics of others dogs on the net. I ask you not to post my pictures other places!!

[bluecollar 104]

Bird.... he is really gritty and what ever he catches up to dies. he has never seen a bob but he would kill one. he drew an otter the other day damn thing was mean as hell.

[Hot Meat 3,109]

What's the rest of the litter like compared to this in an dans junior?

Edited December 2, 2013 by Hot Meat

[bluecollar 104]

As far as I know they are the only two left. The first litter there are only two left too they are about 7. Hard as nails but short coat and smaller.