I'm loving all of the activity on Chaz lately!!
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and for me it certainly depends a lot on what our current dogs can make happen. I'm all set on cow dogs for a good bit (definitely until I'm done with school!) and probably wouldn't add another until Tulsa is quite a bit older (around 7 or so) and Rider is gone. Though, if I've got super wild cattle and neither of them can help me out, I may have to get a stronger working dog sooner rather than later.
We are definitely at our max on dogs. I think 3 was ideal, honestly, especially adding a rather large dog. I'm hoping Iggy will hunt for another 3 seasons, at that point I don't know if we will add another to take over for him right away and have him mentor a puppy or if we will wait until our numbers go down a bit.
So what about you?
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and for me it certainly depends a lot on what our current dogs can make happen. I'm all set on cow dogs for a good bit (definitely until I'm done with school!) and probably wouldn't add another until Tulsa is quite a bit older (around 7 or so) and Rider is gone. Though, if I've got super wild cattle and neither of them can help me out, I may have to get a stronger working dog sooner rather than later.
We are definitely at our max on dogs. I think 3 was ideal, honestly, especially adding a rather large dog. I'm hoping Iggy will hunt for another 3 seasons, at that point I don't know if we will add another to take over for him right away and have him mentor a puppy or if we will wait until our numbers go down a bit.
So what about you?