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Pig hunting and dog training Bill Westwood shares his experience and knowledge of pig hunting and dog training.
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Photos, videos and articles on all aspects of both pursuits.

27/06/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-solo-find/

Gus is now 15 months old and catching lots of pigs. On today’s hunt I had Gus, Bro and Rastus. All three dogs were wearing muzzles. One of my neighbors had sent me a photo the night before of…

16/06/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/dog-training-3/

Hylton came in today for a couple of hours with his 16 month old bitch, Win. For our first run we took Rastus and Gus with Win. Gus and Win tracked off and caught a small wild pig, luckily the dogs…

11/05/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/pig-dog-training-bookings-taken-now/

For the past ten weeks I have been driving a spud truck helping out my son Sloan. Now the spud season has come to an end for another year which gives me time to get back into my passion for pig dog…

27/04/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/3-generations-of-hunters-creating-memories/

This hunt has been a long time coming. When my youngest son Bryce was young he would always be out on the hill with me hunting. But as he had settled down with his wife Megan and they had two sons,…

12/03/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/happy-birthday-gus-one-year-old/

Thank you to all those people that have been following my articles about Gus over his 1st year. Rastus, Bro, Gus and Tig watching a vehicle coming up our driveway. Looking back over the last year I…

08/02/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/115-lb-boar/

I had my son Sloan up for a hunt so I took Bro and Gus and put Muzzles on them both. Sloan had his old dog Mack and his 3 year old dog Bruce who’s a Kelpie. As we were walking up a wet waist …

27/01/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/muzzles/

With Gus now stepping up it gives me too much dog pressure on the pigs.This leaves me with either of two options, either I leave dogs behind when I go hunting or put Muzzles on the three pig dogs s…

18/01/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-at-10-months-old/

Gus has still been getting lots of hunting in and lots of pigs but nothing big in the last couple of weeks. More pigs that Gus helped to catch Gus and Bro found and bailed a grey sow that had 6 pig…

24/12/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/merry-xmas-boar/

It was the day before Christmas and I was taking the dogs out for a hunt. I had three dogs with me today, Tig, Rastus and Gus. I was leaving Bro behind today as he had a sore foot from in the train…

22/12/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/santa-clause-night/

I consider myself very lucky to still be in contact with some of the guys I went to school with. Every year we all make the effort to catch up at Christmas time and this was to be our 30th annivers…

11/12/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/boar-in-the-driveway/

Three days after my previous hunt I was at home heading down to my gateway to cut the grass when I noticed the four dogs could smell a pig in the native block above the white gates. As I opened the…

07/12/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/another-hunt/

A day off from the milk tankers and the dogs needed a run. For the last month Tig had not been out for a hunt as I was consentrating on putting a lot of time into Bolt on the Pigs and Tig being a p…

03/12/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-update/

Things have been getting very busy lately with helping my son Sloan carting milk as his partner Natalie is due to have their first baby. The truck I’m driving for Sloan at Tapanui Since my la…

19/11/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-becomes-the-mentor-dog-for-bolt/

I don’t normally take a dog for training without the owner but in this case I was making an exception. I had been contacted by John Lockley asking if I would take a one year old Lockley dog, …

13/11/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/being-charged/

While I was at home sitting on my deck I spotted a good black boar opposite the house. This boar was born on my place and has hung around ever since but today I decided to take Bro and Gus for some…

08/11/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-28weeks/

On this hunt Tig had caught a possum and Gus decided that he wanted to bring it back to me. Now this is where the important part of the training comes in. If I wanted him to do this I could call hi…

02/11/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-bailing/

One of the biggest changes I have seen in my dogs since getting Gus has been the way that Bro has stepped up his hunting. Bro would Normally go out with either Tig or Rastus but now with Gus on the…

12/10/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-first-find/

The way Gus has started hunting, I did not think that it was going to take him long before he was on the find. Gus was actually six months and three days on this hunt. I had Rastus, Bro and Gus. I …

09/10/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/new-boar-in-the-block-2/

This year the three old boars that I had in the training block for the past nine years had been attacked by the younger boar Kevin Bacon. Kevin had been in the block for over two years and was the …

06/10/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/on-going-stock-training/

I’m always looking for opportunities to help with the training of Gus and its not just about being out there on the hill hunting. I had a job that I’d been wanting to do for a while now…

03/10/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-big-boar/

This was to be Gus’s sixth hunt at just over 25 weeks old.This hunt was planned the week before when I was away on a training weekend for Search and rescue. While there I had car pooled with …

01/10/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-5th-hunt/

Seventeen days after Gus’s 1st hunt we were out again. This time with Tig and Bro. Each of my dogs have their strong points, Tig is exceptional on the possums and enjoys catching bigger pigs.…

30/09/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-4th-hunt/

This was to be Gus’s 4th hunt in the past 2 weeks and I was taking all 4 dogs. Sometimes this can be too many dogs on a pig at one time if they all go in but because I have the dogs under goo…

26/09/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-3rd-hunt/

Gus’s 3rd hunt was just going to be a quick hunt on the face opposite the house. As I was heading up the track Rastus and Bro tracked up the hill and were heading over the top so I had to giv…

25/09/2023

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-2nd-hunt/

For Gus’s 2nd hunting, I have brought along Tig the possum dog so that Gus can get to see another dog doing a different job that he is not allowed to join in on. My other 2 dogs, Rastus and B…

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