Treeing Dogs

[forest of dean redneck 11,694]

Anyone ever hunt their dogs with the dogs treeing the game then it being shot? I know some of the small spitz breeds hunt this way.and the Americans with their coon and squirrel dogs. If you Google squirrel dogs or feist dogs your get better idea. I'm thinking about this style of mooching.if I ever get time for a working dog.

[s.e.s.k.u 1,893]

I've seen a couple terriers take it a bit too far following squirrel up trees lol..

[armdog 196]

once saw an old boy with a collie and it had treed a squirrel and was bitimg at the tree to try and get it ! he said shel do that for hours, dog had made a good hole in tree but tree was about 6 foot around

[tsteve9999 456]

I would have thought every lurcher and terrier trees squirrels, my sons terrier will try to climb the tree after them if theres a way.

[forest of dean redneck 11,694]

Yeah Steve just wondered if anyone purposely hunted this way,it's been done for generations in USA.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Never heard of anyone breeding dogs specially for treeing in the UK, but the amount of grey squirrels in some parts, maybe someone should!

The best Ive had was a collie. Also the lurchers were decent tree markers, but by no means specialists! My GWP is getting better and better at holding a tree mark, and certainly her time in Canada helped with this as she was none stop squirrel/chipmunk hunting. Raccoons are good fun too.

 

In the states many strains of hound have also been developed for marking tree game.

 

All the best

[stevemac 442]

my staghound and ridgeback treed a koala one time they both sat starring up and the ridgeback sung his head off. not something I've let them repeat since but was an interesting experience that happened on a hunt.

[Bo Duke 420]

 

Love shooting tree rats above the dogs

 

[steve66 3,554]

Good fun treeing squirells with the terrier , when having a shot with the catty

[johnharris 177]

ive an old russell dog here who will do it, brilliant fun

[mushroom 13,199]

Had a feckin useless Jack with queen Anne feet that just had an inbuilt hatred for squizzers and she would actively hunt and mark the fujckers and then wait for me to shoot, then let one of the others pick it up usually te staff. once she was sure it was dead she'd steam in and claim it as hers lol

[ratkilla 35]

Since ive been in the US and knowing about treeing dogs, ive wondered how long it would be till squirrel dogs caught on in the UK due to the mass amount of squirrels, no season or bag limit on them...Im sure they'd be popular once a few good ones made an appearance

[morton 5,368]

Any dog that ratches and as a mooch about usually picks up the habit of marking tree,s,they only have to chase the odd squirrel or feral to get into the swing of it,many an happy hour can be undertaken with a mutt and an air-rifle ridding the land of a grey or two,until the tree,s come into leaf.

[Hareydave 1,214]

that white dog marked trees all the time wouldn't matter how many trees there was he be eating at the right one....the black dog it hasnt a clue what it doing there

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Any dog that ratches and as a mooch about usually picks up the habit of marking tree,s,they only have to chase the odd squirrel or feral to get into the swing of it,many an happy hour can be undertaken with a mutt and an air-rifle ridding the land of a grey or two,until the tree,s come into leaf.

I agree, pretty much any dog will get the swing of marking trees, but I reckon the purpose-bred dogs, that have had many generations of careful breeding put into them, will be head and shoulders ahead of the average mutt.

 

Ive got mates with tree dogs, and they say that they are born looking up into the branches, they know the score without learning, its ingrained in them.

 

A dog bred like this will be pretty much guaranteed, a treeing dog.