Green Bay Jifka her 1st hare hunt.

[greenbay]

Beagle Boy,

What an awful experience! Why is it, this only happens to the "Good Ones?"

Jifka was a full sister to FC Green Bay Butkus and the best female in the litter.

I am sure you will rebuild your kennels with other great hounds.

I hope you pursue recovery and satisfaction from the Minnesota DNR!

Good Luck,
Green Bay Joe

[NorWester1]

That's tough luck for sure Beagle Boy. The woods have become a rough neigborhood up north.
I lost two hounds while running within a hundred yards of my house last year

I don't believe the MN DNR offers any compensation and the government certainly doesn't offer any up in my neck of the woods.
I'm anticapating a rough go here until the deer yard up this winter. With any luck at all I'll knock a few wolves down in the process, there sure seem to be enough of them.

[Ohiohntr]

Terrible....just terrible!!!

I remember watching Jifka run a cottontail down a blacktop road in the headlights of a pickup truck during the heat of the summer. She was tounging every breath and turned right where the rabbit when into the ditch. It was that point when I realized how much "nose" she really had and what a hound is capable of....that night I was VERY impressed with her. We had a pack of coyotes come in on the dogs later that night and we thought for sure we would be missing some. We found Jifka and another female hiding a good distance from the original point....she escaped that night but doesn't sound like she was as fortunate this time.

She was a nice little hound....a tiny little pocket rocket.

[walleye101]

Sorry to hear of your terrible loss. That has to be devastating!

Would you mind providing the specific area of Northern MN where this occurred? I live and run beagles up here and would really appreciate knowing to avoid that specific area. Thanks.

[BCBeagles]

Sorry to hear about your little hound. She must have been a nice one. I have a litter from Shooter on the way in Oct. I can only hope they have that nose
power. I am very lucky to have few problems with coyotes let alone wolves. I would make it a point to take out a little frustration on them!!!!! To the tune of
a 130 grain bullet at about 3100 feet per second!!!

[walleye101]

Has this incident been reported to the Feds and MNDNR? Please make sure that it does. I know it seems like an uphill battle, but we will have no chance of getting some reasonable population management if these incidents go unreported.