Thread: Found dog...Kaimai's

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Looks like a nice useful dog. How old do you think?

Any clues on temperament?

Has he been neutered?

How about scars that would suggest he’s a pig dog? I assume he didn’t have a tracking collar on. Occasionally I come across pig hunters that aren’t using tracking gear, but not very often.

Hope you can track down his owner. It is possible that he is a long way from home but considering what you’ve told us about where you are located he’s probably been lost relatively locally. Sometimes it pays to wait a bit and I think you’re onto it, it’s great that you’ll feed him up. An owner will have photos and will obviously know his name, to which he will react immediately…

There’s always a small chance that he’s been dumped of course.

I say all this simply because we’ve been through this exercise four times over the years with dogs coming out of the bush at this end of the Kaimais. Our neighbours know that we’ve got a good kennel for stray dogs so they bring them here. In every instance it’s been a lost pig dog. Once we were able to respond to a sign up at the campsite entrance, the other three times the owners have found us after we’ve posted on various local message boards. We’ve never experienced any dodgy buggers trying to score a free dog.

Good luck and good on ya.

He looks like your avatar, are you sure he's not yours?...still entire, cocks leg to piss, not an old dog...have had lost dog notices on gate and in letterbox in the past but not this time...I have had dogs lost in the Kaimai's, the longest being 7 weeks and at some point ended up with leg through collar and gave her a armpit slash that would make your eyes water to look at, she survived and still have her...as said he has no tracking collar but as you say not everyone uses one...he has no interest in pigs I have including free ranging piglets.