Thread: Wild dogs - Discussion

Originally Posted by Jhon

Few years back, staying at Lang Cove, Waipu, mid-winter, cold and raining hard. Driving the Cove road after mid-night and there was a dog in the headlights looking footsore and buggered. Stopped and opened the passenger door, handsome young dog with an electronic collar of some sort, tracker I think. It climbed in and hunkered in the footwell. Took it home and parked it on the back doormat inside with a bowl of water. Friendly as. Told it to stay and it never moved. Checked the collar in the morning, found a number and called it. Guy's missus answered and said he was out pig hunting in the hills. Gave me an address about 20km away. She had no vehicle and he was not due back for a couple of days. So I dropped it off and she just said it would get a hiding when he came home. Never heard any more. certainly no thank you call. Spose it would have found its own way home, if it hadn't got run over. Should have just left it and maybe someone else would have given it a better home.

As an ex pig hunter I do understand how annoying it can be when people pick up your dogs. You can be very close and someone, who means we'll, stops as they're worried about your pig dog. I had one grabbed when I was about to pick it up then had to pay to get it back from the council.
It's a tricky one. Aunty off the old forum has a great yarn of he got his best dog after someone lost it I kaiangaroa. Duse had lost his hole pack in one day. Two killed on edge of farm but a trigger happy and one by the boar they were chasing. Aunty picked this one up cowering in the middle of sh1. He stuck a deal with them to add him to his pack as he was a great dog.
One time my bitch got picked up here on a busy stretch of road(which I was fine with as she'd gone out of range of the GPS). When I managed to figure who had her, the nice lady had been letting her wander around her pet pigs. Thank goodness she seemed to understand that they were off limits. Could have been very stressful as she was a pretty hard dog(luckily bright and friendly).