Comments on: When Your Dog Gets Cold http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/when-your-dog-gets-cold/ The Leading Multimedia Wildlife Conservation Magazine Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phillip http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/when-your-dog-gets-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Phillip Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:24:15 +0000 http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/?p=116#comment-44 Good timing, Cork! Just Sunday night, I ordered a new vest for Cyrus (our black lab). I honestly don't think it's totally necessary for 90% of our duck hunting out here, but it definitely can't hurt. As far as pig vests, I can't imagine running hogs without vesting up the dogs. I know it's done, and widely, but it just seems an awful waste of a good dog (not to mention money) to let the dogs get ripped up when you can offer some protection. Too bad we couldn't make it happen for tomorrow morning. Looks like it's gonna be a classic morning in the rice... if the wind will just come up. Good timing, Cork! Just Sunday night, I ordered a new vest for Cyrus (our black lab). I honestly don’t think it’s totally necessary for 90% of our duck hunting out here, but it definitely can’t hurt.

As far as pig vests, I can’t imagine running hogs without vesting up the dogs. I know it’s done, and widely, but it just seems an awful waste of a good dog (not to mention money) to let the dogs get ripped up when you can offer some protection.

Too bad we couldn’t make it happen for tomorrow morning. Looks like it’s gonna be a classic morning in the rice… if the wind will just come up.

]]> By: admin http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/when-your-dog-gets-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-43 admin Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:22:55 +0000 http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/?p=116#comment-43 Thanks, Mike. Absolutely on the pig dog vest! I wonder how many a trusty and valiant dog might have been saved from being split hip to armpit had they a proper fitting and designed vest. Beaucoup, I'm sure! Yes, sadly family-owned has become the corporate-owned ranch where original family has become a "share-cropper" on the land their ancestors had pioneered, if they're even still in the same state. Is it any wonder that traditional old family names of big ranches of the "Old West" now live in apartments and boroughs on the Atlantic Coast,or are only left to live in the small bordering town next to their family's old holdings and only look longingly at what was theirs? Yes, they held to beef, and tried to fight corporate battle against a machine that could easily outproduce them in "traditional" beef. So many are trying to milk the ways learned during the burgeoning economy of the Post-War years of the 1940s and 1950s. There are so many revenues streams available that a "traditional" ranch, if they looked past the big numbers beef cattle toward a much more sustainable option--supported wild game populations, organics, direct relationships between the producer and the market demand--could easily succeed and prosper under one a family's stewardship. I'm not afraid of the American bison disappearing. Why? Because Ted Turner made them very viable and sustainable tablefare. Money speaks, and like the chicken and pig...if people are willing to pay to eat them, those species on land will survive...seafood, well, that's another matter... Cheers! Thanks, Mike.

Absolutely on the pig dog vest! I wonder how many a trusty and valiant dog might have been saved from being split hip to armpit had they a proper fitting and designed vest. Beaucoup, I’m sure!

Yes, sadly family-owned has become the corporate-owned ranch where original family has become a “share-cropper” on the land their ancestors had pioneered, if they’re even still in the same state. Is it any wonder that traditional old family names of big ranches of the “Old West” now live in apartments and boroughs on the Atlantic Coast,or are only left to live in the small bordering town next to their family’s old holdings and only look longingly at what was theirs?

Yes, they held to beef, and tried to fight corporate battle against a machine that could easily outproduce them in “traditional” beef. So many are trying to milk the ways learned during the burgeoning economy of the Post-War years of the 1940s and 1950s.

There are so many revenues streams available that a “traditional” ranch, if they looked past the big numbers beef cattle toward a much more sustainable option–supported wild game populations, organics, direct relationships between the producer and the market demand–could easily succeed and prosper under one a family’s stewardship.

I’m not afraid of the American bison disappearing. Why? Because Ted Turner made them very viable and sustainable tablefare. Money speaks, and like the chicken and pig…if people are willing to pay to eat them, those species on land will survive…seafood, well, that’s another matter…

Cheers!

]]> By: T. Michael Riddle http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/when-your-dog-gets-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-42 T. Michael Riddle Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:27 +0000 http://corksoutdoors.com/blog/?p=116#comment-42 Excellent story and advise Cork, When I would try and "educate" the dyed in the wool hog hunter's back home about vesting their dogs, I would be met with the same opposition which you described here in your post. Tradition! by the way, is what is killing all of the small cattle outfits here in Cali. as they cannot compete in the current market in the same fashion as their parents, grand and great grand parents did. If only they would bend a little and break with tradition to explore new avenues of bringing in revenue for their large ranches, they just might be able to hold onto them instead of going bankrupt. Ziggy is a fine lookin' dawg!! Excellent story and advise Cork,
When I would try and “educate” the dyed in the wool hog hunter’s back home about vesting their dogs, I would be met with the same opposition which you described here in your post.

Tradition! by the way, is what is killing all of the small cattle outfits here in Cali. as they cannot compete in the current market in the same fashion as their parents, grand and great grand parents did.

If only they would bend a little and break with tradition to explore new avenues of bringing in revenue for their large ranches, they just might be able to hold onto them instead of going bankrupt.

Ziggy is a fine lookin’ dawg!!

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