Brute 23":3rir24wj said:
If there are any dog hunters out there, take a look at this group. We are a non-profit group who works to protect and promote working/ hunting dogs. We have scholarships for our members, legal funds, contests, work with youth, and alot of other good stuff.
Tdha is looking to branch out and get more coon hunters, waterfowl, upland bird hunters, small game, cow dog people, and any thing else you can think of that involves hunting or working with dogs.
Check out the forum and website. If you have any question shoot me a pm, e-mail, or some thing. Thanks
http://thenewtdha.com/smf1.5/
Dog Hunters (Deer) are normally the bottom dwellers of the deer hunting world. We ran all that riff raff off 25 years ago. Normally your basic deer dog owner owns a trailer on 5 acres with 20 blue tick hounds in a cage out back near a broken down truck and boat.
They starve their dogs prior to hunting season because they say " a fat dog won't run or hunt". Not exactly a group I would want anything to do with.
1. Scholarships? who would give their hard earned money to a drunken toothless tobaccy dipping redneck with 11th grade education-- who hasnt ever done anything to help conserve the wildlife they hunt? All taking and no giving = no giving to your organization.
2. Legal Funds-- you probably need those funds to pay for all the suits against dog hunters that hunt on private lands without permission
3. Contests? - who can find their dogs after an illegal hunt on private property
4. Working with Youth-- I wouldnt want any of your beer laden tobaccy chewing non-land owning misfits anywhere near my children.
5. "Other Good stuff" - Like what?
You have a hard task ahead of you if you want support from landowners that have ever had the misfortune of having to deal with the beer drinking scallywag hunting over the hood of his 4-wheel drive deer hunter. Good Luck with that - you will need it.
What chaps my backside is the idea that you would even link a starving tick infested mutt deer dog with a real working dog like a stock dog. I have been training cattle working dogs for 25 years and 1 stock dog is worth about 40 deer dog hunters and their tick infested mutts.
Instead of supporting deer dog hunters who only take-take-take from the wildlife population, I think we are all better served for the continued support we give to the wildlife that you run down and kill by the thousands.