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  1. Minkenry
    My little buck mink That’e’ has many talents, but so far bravery has not been one of them. Since he is still quite young, I still have hope that his timid behavior is just his a product of his age, and that he will someday grow out of it. So in the meantime, I’ve been doing my best at avoiding any bad experiences that could break his already weak confidence. Instead of allowing him to hunt aggressive prey like squirrels, brown rats, or muskrats, I’ve stuck to small stuff like mouse sized rodents, or non-aggressive prey like rabbits. Today I took That’e’ out hunting in the desert where there i
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    Now that I'm done with writing my book on minkenry, I now have some time to get on here and share hunting stories like I used to do. I'll start out by introducing my new mink That'e'. This is That’e’. His name means “to bite to death” in the Omaha Native American Language, and he was given this rather graphic name for a reason, as you will learn later on in this passage. That’e’ is 5 months old, and he is what I call a “Hunting Demi”. “Demi” is what the mink farmers in my area call a natural brown colored mink. In other areas Demi mink may be called things like “Standard Brown”
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    Here's the thing, we don't just hunt rats. Try sending a ferret down after a 900 gram rock squirrel! You'll need a real special ferret to handle those suckers! l'm sure it's possible to find a ferret that can handle rock squirrels, but it's close to impossible to find a ferret that can handle a 1600 gram muskrat! So yeah, if all I hunted were wussy little rats and rabbits, a ferret would work just fine. But you try using a ferret on 90% of my hunts and you'll either end up with a dead ferret, or one afraid to go down a hole!
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    yes, the dog will be hunting with a trained mink. The mink will go down rat and squirrel holes, and what the mink doesn't catch, we want to use the dog to catch. A rat colony can easily have a couple dozen rats, so with both the mink and the dog working together, we can catch a lot more of the colony on the first hunt.
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    My buddy Cade Pocock is looking at getting a new working terrier, and he's got a couple options in front of him. All of the options he is considering are from hard working proven stock. He's buying from the best of the best breeders available, and he'll be flying his dog to him from halfway across the country. He really wants to make sure that this time he gets the dog he's looking for (if you didn't read my last post, he had a Decker working terrier that was so far from game it isn't even funny). The options Cade has before him are a litter of Patterdales, a Jagdterrier litter, and a lit
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    That's exactly what I thought, it's a coon dumped out of a trap. Give me a call! My buddy and I would love to come along on a hunt. You can come hunting with us and our mink if you like 801-548-2696
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    I've never measured a dog's height before, so I don't know how tall any of my dogs have been. I only know weights. As far as weight is concerned, game bred pits can rage from as small as 25 lbs to over lbs. Though this may be the range of possible weights, it takes quite a bit of looking to find a pit dog that is much under 30 lbs, and it's even harder to find a dog much over 60 lbs, but it is possible. The vast majority of fighting dogs are right around 45 lbs. How high any of these dogs are at the shoulder, I don't have a clue. Here are some pics of some real quality fighting dogs t
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    I agree 100%. Depending on what you're hunting a "pit bull gameness" can either finish the fight, or leave you with nothing but a dead dog. If you're hunting game like Jaguar, pit bull gameness leaves you with a dead dog. If your hunting wild boar and trying to use terrier type gameness for a catch dog, you end up being the one who gets hurt or killed.
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    Yep. In dog fighting 3 wins makes a champion, 5 wins makes a grand champion, and 10 makes a double grand champion. I don't fight dogs by the way. I just try to keep connections with guys who do so I can get some dogs from them for hunting. The fighting bred pit bulls are usually smaller, and MUCH more quick and athletic than the "pet bulls" you can find just about anywhere. Also, as expected, the fighting bred dogs are FAR more game and have MUCH more drive than any "pet bull" alive! Game bred dogs are really hard to find, and unless you have connections they are in the thousands of d
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    Thanks!
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    Cade, if you're reading this take notes. This sounds to me like the best advice I've heard yet on how to raise a hunting dog! My opinion with young animals is it's better to be too careful and start them a little too late then it is to be overly harsh and destroy the animal's confidence by giving them too much too early. Either way, I think this dog's a cur, and Cade and I (Cade is the boy who owns the dog) talked about it tonight, and I'm going to make some calls and see if we can get him a better dog. I know a guy down south who has connections with guys who hunt nutria with terriers. He
  12. Minkenry
    Now see, that is maybe where the pits clouded your judgement,the dog walked round sized it up ,then grabbed it ,I wouldn't want a dog just steaming in,it's not going to have a long working career is it. My only issue was dog didn't quite finish the coon off,but then they are tough b*****ds are they not. Yeah, like I said, I don't trust my judgment on gameness with other dogs, as the pit bull version of gameness is not really fair to compare to other breeds. A game pit bull will rush a grizzly bear and get killed, and that's not exactly the level of gameness that you want in an earth dog.
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    Here's the only video I could find on YouTube with a Decker Terrier doing anything worth mentioning I don't know about you guys, but I'm not too impressed. Of course, I'm a rather harsh judge when it comes to dogs and gameness because I'm used to working with pit bulls. Most game bred pit bulls that are considered "curs" in the pit dog world are actually much gamer than a quality working terrier. So it's not fair at all to try to compare the two.
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    I can't say for sure how "well tested" his parents were, but I know they were used as hunting dogs. The Decker line of terriers is supposed to be strictly a hunting line of dogs used for larger hard game from raccoons up to wild boars. I don't know how game they really are, as this is the only dog I've seen from this breed. I know I'm not impressed so far, as I'm pretty sure the boarder collie I had as a kid was more game than this little cur.
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    My friend has a Decker working terrier that he has been training over the last while, and he's not maturing as fast as we think he should. This is my friend's first dog, and I don't have much experience with terriers, as pit bulls are my hunting dog of choice. So between the two of us, we're not sure if my friend's dog is just a cull, or if we're expecting too much of him. Here's a basic break down of what my friend has done with his dog, and where he's at now.... My friend's dog is close to a year old now. When he was 6 months old, my friend gave him a small domestic rat. He got bit, but
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    Here's a couple pictures of the pit bulls I used to hunt with. This is a nice big 55 lb bitch I used to hunt on wild cat. `` She loved hunting those wild cats so much she learned to climb trees, so no matter where the cat went she could still get it! Here I am climbing a tree with her to show off her tree climbing skills for the camera.... This is a quick little 38 pound bitch I used to hunt coon and Possums with. She was so quick that she usually caught the possums before they could get to the tree!
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    I don't have any dogs right now, but I can pull up some pics from the past I hope to get me a little game bred pit real soon. I got a guy that says he can hook me up with a real quality pup out of some grand champion blood lines. I'm dying to get me a tiny little game dog, something under 30 lbs, if I'm lucky close to the 25lb range. I think it would be a TOTAL BLAST to hunt with a dog with that much drive and ability! What is the average weight range for the terriers you guys use to go to ground? I'm sure my little game dog will be too big to go to ground the way a little terrier can,
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    How do you know when a pup is ready for rats? Do you wait until a certain age, or are there signs to look for in the dogs behavior?
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    Yeah, he's still young and learning. I do think he's a bit behind for his age. I hope for my friend's sake he caches up, because he's put a lot of time and training into that pup. Having a cowardly terrier is down right useless, and it would be a shame for all of my friend's hard work to go into a cur! (not sure if you guys use that term, but a cur is a dog that is bred to be game but ends up a coward) Do you have much terrier experience? If so, what age do most terriers "turn on" and toughen up? I haven't worked as much with terriers as I have pit bulls, and it's not really fair comparin
  20. Minkenry
    Hello all. I've been gone for quite sometime, as I've been far too busy writing my book on minkenry to make videos or post hunting stories. I have now finished my book, so I again have time to post like I did before. Here's a hunting story from a couple weeks ago..... I took my new white mink Ma-ska ("white snow" in the Omaha Native American Language) rat hunting again the other day. I've decided to skip caching training with her, and instead use her like you would a ferret to flush, rather than capture game. My reason for doing this is because I have a supper high quality young mink th
  21. Minkenry
    lol depends on the mink. I've had mink that have gone through the whole process without a single bite, others that bit me, but only with the glove on, and then other's who've hit my bare flesh. It actually isn't as bad as you would expect....
  22. Minkenry
    There's a couple reasons. One is like you said, most mink won't let you just take their kill the way a dog would (some will, but most wont). The main reason is because sometimes mink catch game deep in a burrow. If you train the mink to drag their kill to their carry box, then you don't have to dig out their kill, or leave it to waist if you can't dig it out.
  23. Minkenry
    Oddly enough, I've found this the safest time to handle a mink bare handed. With this little mink, I've bottle raised her and she is SUPER sweet and COMPLETELY trust worthy with me. Check out this video to see what I mean... Even with mink I tame as adults, once they get over their fear of you, and start seeing you as "the food guy" most become surprisingly trustworthy when it comes to eating meat out of your hands.
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    There's no quick way to answer that. Here's a little article I wrote on the subject that explains the process.... Chapter 10 Lure Training, and Teaching a Mink to Cache Once the mink is coming instantly from a distance of over 100 feet (30 meters), and under progressively more distractions, the next step is to teach it to come to the lure. The lure is basically your insurance. You have the lure to make sure the mink will always come back when you call, regardless of the circumstance. Just like I mentioned in Chapter 8, the greatest motivator for a mink is the desire to chase and
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    Me showing how well trained my mink is :-) I don't mean to brag, just proud of my little mink.
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