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De ja vu

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Puk could hear the sisters Ming&Lu bailing on and off ahead. Puk is a real handful once she knows the dogs are on a pig, she was dragging me along trying to pull my arm out of it's socket, you see Puk is an out and out holder, she can find pigs sure, but she just tries to hard once there, you could describe her as a sprinter, she just explodes into the bail and latches onto the pig, know-one tries harder than her, the trouble is holding a 100 plus pound boar that is trying to kill you can be exhausting. She never barks, never complains, and has the sweetest nature but when her and the pig meet she locks on to an ear or front leg and holds on till she can't stand, sometime suffering rips from the boars tusks and that's why I don't like to let her go till I'm about 200meters from the bail. We had walked into some vines so I let the lead go to untangle it, "see you later" Puk said. I tried to call her back but her mates were calling and she just ha...

Playing on the juice

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Lu&Ming I'd climbed to 450 meters I could see the dogs had stopped 700meters out and found myself wuning up the rd, wuning is a cross between walking and running, the juice (Tramadol) was just starting to kick in, if it's good enough for Lance Armstrong it good enough for me and at-least I'm honest about it. I slept in a little this morning that might have something to do with all the Booze my mate Dean left last weekend, being a tidy Kiwi I was trying to tidy some of it up last night. Anyway dogs off the chains and into the Dingy was thinking about a hunt in in the next Bay but half way there the dogs were winding up the hill, so I thought I would pop into the boundary between one of the kind neighbors who is farming wild pigs and the Doc reserve, we picked up a little 40lb sow, then with that in the bank I set off to see if a particular Boar that had given me the slip on a couple of occasions was home. Landed and tied the Dingy up, keeping the dog...