Do you take your dog on the line?

He goes every day. Runs ahead and waits at the stakes till I get there to check them for rats. He is part mountain goat I think lol.

I just wrote an article for the Idaho magazine about taking my dog on the line... they loves checking traps when they're not pointing chukar.

Calls shotgun everyday!
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Loki making sure everything runs smoothly on the line. Not necessarily the greatest trapping partner but he is good company.

No she's too expensive to have a mishap and she's show dog

Goes every day with me, unless I'm just running snares. That's what I got her for.

No, I’m worried they’ll run off and get killed by wolves.

I take mine wherever I go Other that working in SC on the boats.

You need to start your own thread: Do you take selfies with your dog?

I have my Newfoundland Misha with me. She is pretty high maintenance for getting in and out of the boat at 135#.

You can start that one.

Lol, the guys here go mental when I post a pic of myself. Can you imagine how bad things will get if I added a dog in the pic!? Jelly welly!
We have English Springer Spaniels.

Copilot... rain or shine.

Pearl helps or thinks she does

That skunk picture still has me laughing. Fantastic

Yep, my best friend out there.

He also takes credits for the occasional large muskrat.

Heck yeah., my dogs are my trapping partners.

Watching for beavers

Neat pictures Bandy. How did you get your dog used to being in a canoe? That’s my summer mission is to teach this one to be in a canoe. Not sure I want to train him while the water is cold and canoe full of traps lol

Hank likes to tag along out on the line!

Yup!

Love it!

Yes and he gets out every stop unless there is water. He even dreams about going with me.

Hobbie, Mine goes whooo whooo in her sleep. I've heard and saw her do it many times! Funny as the dickens!

My dog used to go and will walk in the woods if he doesn't see or smell coyote related trapping stuff. He has been caught a few times so he would rather guard the truck than walk with me.

Just took mine for hike to check a badger hole in a field a ways off of the road she is now on her couch snoring away, nothing better then a happy dog to make your day.

Yep, they have to go. They get right into .

Chad, is that a rat. Ears look right for one, I leave my Jack at home, since it was the demise of my last one. Little dogshave a short shelf life around some critters! I was told when I got my first jack that you need two of them, or they get theirself in trouble! He was right!

I hope to have a pup by Summer to start training. Should find out in a week or two if there is a bun in the oven. Really looking forward to it!!

Lee Abbie is a fox terrier. And full of spite, be scary if she was bigger.

Lugnut, wish I could keep my dog that calm around fox like yours. A few times he gets there before I do and the fox doesn't come out of it so well. Same with raccoons and woodchucks but he's learned his lesson with skunks and yotes.

Lee, love my JTR's but after my last one passed had to take a break. With such a personality I get too attached.

Dead Coyote, I sure would have love to get one of your pups one day. Loki is Jagd/English Shepard cross and I think the shepard cancels out some of the terrier. Still a good dog but would rather stay in the truck than help me with a coyote.

Those female JRT are the bomb! Just lovy little turds to people, and mine is a rat and mouses worst dream! This one I have sheilded from the trapline, I want her to get old with me! Here is a pic of her.
In all her rough coat spleder! lol

At least 3 everyday.

We have to work am in shifts cause they will fight each other

From today

No fear Taz. Plott x Cur x Jadg x Airedale.

When I am running snares I do but starting back in with 330's so I will not. He has a nasty habit of bobbing his head into open holes to get chunks of ice. Might not be a good outcome with 330's.
This is just a picture of him in the duck boat. His name is Trapper, though!

Moosetrot

Bandy ~ or anyone, please; What Is that creature on the front??? Is that some weird coloured ... what?

Thanks.

Yote off colored but cool!

We train almost everyday. It makes a difference.

Funny story about the pic below and the yellow lab. He was less than a year old when this pic was taken. I had a snare hung on each of the two tracks of the tractor trail running across this field. Boomer and I got out of the truck and I had him walk at heel up to the cabled fox. We got about fifteen feet away and Boomer couldn't take it anymore. He broke from heel and rushed the fox. I yelled "SIT" the same instant he hit the other cable and almost did a back flip when he ran out of slack.

He looked amazed. I guess he didn't realize I could stop him on a dime with just a word. LOL

I took the pic after I released him and told him to sit. He's looking a little sheepish. He was a good boy the rest of the day.

I started her out young I had to teach her how to load out in open water. She has always been obedient till she see a squirrel and then it's splash. I started her out in warm weather in a lake frist having fun then setting and not moving while I fish.

Here is her good side.

I’ve got a real nice young cur cross pup but I don’t know how to post a pic of her.

Doug, that is a cool story about Boomer! Everyday is a new adventure with a trapline dog! Wouldn't do it any other way, though!

My beagle looks the other way she won’t even pretend to be tough. LOL

She knows she has you to protect her!

I can do that no problem she sure hates the neighbors cat and them bunnies at the bird feeder drive her crazy those critters she will chase, I can’t wait for her reaction to the first jackrabbit that pops up she might go the other way. LOL

Thanks, Law Dog! Isn't it cool though?! Amazing!

Could there possibly be any House Dog genes in there? Like, is that even genetically possible? I know wolves and fido's can reproduce. Guessing 'yotes can?


All that aside; Dogs have simply always been a part of me. I don't get out trapping anything any more. But, these little pair of weird things keep me, and themselves, amused. There's about a century old rodent hole down there, beside my bed. I leave it there, out of respect for the memory of the place.

Watching the 'Pit Whippets' listening to activity in the stone built walls still amuses me though!

22+ years, two dogs

me and the pup checking things out. first time for her on the line. made 2 hay sets today and she got into the first one twice! tripped both bridger#3 before she figgured out what no means! second one she edged in but stopped short of the trap.

That's the first black coyote I've seen from out west

Last year two tman members lectured me for having a dog while trapping, idiots

What is the point in having your dogs harass your catches?

Typical missinformed statement, the dogs are not used to harrass the catch, I would never allow it,

Don't believe it is too far west. West of the Atlantic maybe.

Almost looks like a western location, now looking closer I see the difference

If youve trapped much with drags you've had one pack a trap further than expected and wasted time looking. Dogs have to be interested in your catches to be worth a (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). A good dog will save a ton of time looking for lost equipment. Guess it wouldn't help much marten and squirrel trapping or whatever you do in the Frozen North.

It is actually a question. Feel free to replace the word "harass" with any of the below similar words, if it makes you feel better.

Similar:
pester
badger
hound
harry
plague
torment
bedevil
persecute
bother
annoy
exasperate
worry
disturb
trouble
agitate
provoke
vex
stress
stress out
nag
keep on at
chivvy
tease
bait
molest
hassle
bug

Remi keeping one entertained till we get there.

Never caught something and had the snow cover up the trail? 🤔 Shoot I've used my dog to find traps buried in 18' of snow. Bottom line is there are dog guys and not dog guys I guess. Guys that are effective with their dogs catch more fur I'd bet.

Had first dog find coyotes on a drag in Wyoming, used them for decoys while calling coyote, dogs have located traps for me numerous times, they figured out on their own what I meant when I said find the trap,
Coyotes are territorial, just having a dog with you will add to your catch total
A coyote can probably smell me and dog for a week, even if she doesn't pee there,
Pulled up to a coyote in a snare after heavy rain, coyote pulled 30" stake and ran, dog chased him into cover where it tangled stake and I caught up to it.
Many reasons a dog is good for a coyote trapper

I take my dog for pretty much one reason only-she looks hurt and betrayed when i leave in my pickup without her sittin in “her” spot.

Pancho has brought to bay/treed coyotes, raccoons, feral cats, bobcats and one lion. Saves me a bunch of time looking for animals and he is fun to have around, have had other Airedales check my beaver and muskrat traps, hunt coons, turkeys and they all had a passion for feral cats!

They can be quite useful to show where the post set goes. When she runs to a spot and marks, guess what follows?
She waits in the boat while checking.

My dog has always been a meat dog. He hunts every thing and will retrieve everything off land or water. He is 15+ and about wore out.

Pancho has treed lions, coons, feral cats, bobcats and brought coyotes to bay. Plus he h as saved me a bunch of time finding animals on drags, especially lions who can go a ways (back when we could trap them) I have had other Airedales that I hunted coons with, they found muskrats, beavers and they all had an affinity for feral house cats. One even had a nose for turkeys and porkies. I can't trap without one!

Mark I can sympathize with the way your dog feels. I’ve buried two, don’t wanna bury another. I sure miss em tho.

Osky

I totally understand that. I don't think I will get another one. I could not do the dog justice.

MJM, i love your old dog, I saw pics of him several years ago on this site, and am on my second jagd, first one was a good dog and could prob fight a bear and win, she had no quit. Got hit on the road, my fault for letting her get down there, I have her sister from a later litter now, still under a year old, rough coat like your dog, and an awesome beast... she also has a companion rat terrier to harass her at the end of the day. Jagd is with all the time running rat traps, little rat goes with on the nice days, spends a lot of time in the truck.

He liked trapping rats, but I think he likes hunting them more. I trapped them in housed and he likes that if they are alive when he gets there. I have seen him swim out to the ice, climb up, run across the ice and jump in and retrieve rats I shot. He will come straight back rather than run around shore. He is watching for rats if we are around water. I like the rough coat, I think it helps a lot in the cold.

Mark, I think I'm almost as fond of Dusty dog as you are....well maybe not quite, but I admire what you have acomplished with him.

MJM I like the one with your dog harassing the fish, that's a big one.
I need to get remi on some fish lol
She loves duck's to much lol

Yah that black came from the Appalachian mountains here in good old Virginia.

I am so glad I'm a dog person and for the nondog people you don't just get a dog and take it trapping. You pick the right dog and you teach it what it need to know but frist you have to bond with it. A dog has to know it can trust it's owner once that happens the dog will do everything in it's ability to make you happy. You see a dog running about barking at a animal in a trap I see zippie dog celebrating with me in my catch I see her showing me sign I missed or may have never seen. Or even holding a bobcats attention while I get the catch pole on or working with me when I go and set up at a youth event to teach young children about trapping.

If I put a fish on a stringer from shore it can be two foot down and he is bringing it back to shore. He never has just pulled the stringer in. He sticks his head under and grabs the fish and heads to the shore with it.
Lee, he always just did what he wanted, it just happed to be what I wanted. All I ever did was take him a lot.

Ariel loves trapping, she goes everywhere I go. Couldn’t ask for a better trapping partner. Plus she has proven herself very useful many times.

Nope. I have a dryer lint on four legs !

Cool

Excellent picture s of trapping helpers, I can't amagin trapping without a good dog.
My last lab. Would find beaver dens for me.

Stormy, a Hanging Tree Cattle dog. Smart, listens most of the time. lol

Put that down! Put it down! Lol

Here dad ... your slippers

Not this year but I should have a Lacy dog this time next year for a trapping buddy. Hopefully

This is just one of the requirements for owners having trained and licensed hunting dogs in Germany and other European countries. Go figure.

I enjoyed watching my dog in the woods. Learned a lot from her nose.