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• Posted By : UHUNT APP - Jesse Farr
• Posted On : Feb 02, 2020
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• Category : PIG DOGGING » HUNTER & DOG PROFILES
• Description : Danno Eaton's Obie 3yo APBT x Bull Arab

Overview

• BREED HISTORY
  Sire was an old type Arcidiacono, Paulson, Neil mix Bull Arab over pure Sorrells APBT. The Dam was pure Boudreaux APBT. The Line began with a friend of mine that’s been breeding his own line of purpose-bred APBT/Bull Arab over the last 15 years.
  
  WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE MIX
  The things I like the most about this mix is the good scenting ability, speed, endurance, and the extreme high drive and hardness. He’s best trait would have to be he’s hardness for me, a good true one out dog that will happily find and hold any sized boar one out until you get there.
  
  TRAINING AND WORKING WITH OTHER DOGS
  Training has been pretty easy with him, and he loves to learn and be worked, as with all high drive dogs he was a bit of a pain as a pup. He’d chew anything in sight if he wasn’t kept busy even still to this day he is a bit of a handful and has to be constantly worked or goes a bit hypo in the yard. He’s a good smart dog that lives to work. I started working him at 7 months old in the NSW state pine forests, and he was a natural from the get go. To start him I took him out a couple of times with mates following the main dog until he knew the ropes for himself.
  I started hunting him alone after that, and by 8 and a half months old he was finding and holding his own off the ute solo and has consistently ever since. He hits them hard and fast and stops them where they stand, always lugs on the ear. The best work he does is by himself in my opinion. He will work with other dogs but is better with bitches then other males.
  
  
  SCENTING ABILITY
  He has always had a pretty good nose on him, his wind scenting off the ute is second to none, but sometimes it’s like he gets too keen and loses the scent when he hits the ground. If this happens, he will run around for a second until he picks it back up then off he goes. You’ve really got to keep an eye on him when he’s working on the ute because he doesn’t make a sound as soon as he gets the scent he just sneaks off the back at any speed, if you don’t have an eye on him you don’t even know he’s left. He did go through a stage of jumping on old scent but the hard part was it was hard to tell if it was old. Just when you thought he was stuffing around he would just cruise off and catch one. As with all things he has learnt with experience the difference between fresh and old scent.
  
  An average find for him would be around the 200 to 400 meter mark but has no problems with pushing out a couple of kilometres if that’s what needs to happen. He’s longest find was around 2.5 k when he pushed out in the state forest which means mostly walking to the dogs. I do a lot of my hunting in the NSW state forest, in the pines and in thick scrub out west. These areas can be difficult to hunt at times so if you don’t have a handy dog, then you will pretty much have no chance at catching a pig unless you bump into one by chance. I think working dogs in country like that is the best thing you can do to really hone in there scenting skills, if they can find in the pines then they will find anywhere in my opinion.