Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Alabama
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Hello Hunters

I heard that during a coonhunt in south ga. a gator end up killing a hound?
if so can someone tell us what happened and when?

thanks!

b safe hunters!

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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Marianna, Florida
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I heard Eddy Parker got a dog killed at a AKC hunt in South, Ga. I didn`t here all the details but I heard they walked in where the tracker was beeping the next morning and found peices of the dog in the water.

There has been a few good ones killed lately.

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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Forsyth, GA
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i haven't heard anything about this. i heard a couple of hog dogs got eatin by gators, but not a coondog in a hunt. i'll haft to ask around and see if anybody knows.

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Registered: Sep 2003
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I heard it was at a $100 entry fee hunt Last Friday night at Leesburg. This is just what someone told me anyways.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: North GA
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I know a feller that was at the winter classic last year. He was hunting that week getting ready. Dog ran a diller in a hole. 2 RATTLESNAKES in the hole bit dog and the dog died!!!!! I would not doubt at all that a gator has ate a coonhound.Probably happens more than we know.

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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Pilot Mtn, NC
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I heard the dogs just shut up and they tracked them to the water but couldnt see them. but signal was showing them going up and down stream. Not sure about how they figured out it was a gator or how they got the gator but when they cut the gator open they found the tracking collars and dog tags inside. Just heard some guy telling about it at a hunt last weekend.

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Louisiana
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Yeah, a gator is an eating machine. If a hound gets in the wrong place and the timing is right he will be featured on the menu. We hunt around a lot of gators but find that vehicles and falls are a greater danger by far to your hound than a gator is.

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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: albany ga
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i hunt the area he was killed at but i dont turn out directly by the creek. it is very dry and any water with some size to it will hold a big gator. back in august i was hunting not to far from the same spot and went in to the dogs treed and not 20 yards from the dogs lay a 7 to 8 foot gator out in the middle of the woods with no water around. i would not have believed to see one that deep in woods but there he was. did not have a gun with season out so he lived another day, could have been the same gator that ate the dog, sorry for their loss

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Originally posted by Chris Sterrett
I heard it was at a $100 entry fee hunt Last Friday night at Leesburg. This is just what someone told me anyways.

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Like Leesburg Florida??? Well hell if it was, they're lucky that it was just their dog and not anything more. My grandma (god rest her soul) lived in Leesburg in a little reitrement community and you had to be careful walkin to the public pool. Them gators were bigger then anyothers i've seen!

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I remember an article, I think it was in Full Cry, years ago about a dog being tracked to a pool that drained into a bigger lake or river. A monster gater was shot and several tracking collars and brass name plates were in his stomich contents.

One brass name plate was tracked down to a guy who had lost the dog in that area several years before that.


No wonder that gater got so big.

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Registered: Nov 2006
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our hunt club has lost 11 deer dogs this year to gators.1 maybe 2 a year is normal but this year has been bad.only lost 1 coondog in 9 years.

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Originally posted by treedsc
our hunt club has lost 11 deer dogs this year to gators.1 maybe 2 a year is normal but this year has been bad.only lost 1 coondog in 9 years.

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I am right with you earthgirl, even though they did find that one in a neighborhood pond over close to the coast! Did you hear about that! They said it was the first reported gater in 20 yrs here in NC! I believe it was like over 7ft long...wow how does a gator that size go un-noticed? I know when I lived in Charelston SC, we would see salt-water crocidiles all the time when we were fishing in creeks and brackish water. I hated it, those things give me the heeby-jeebies!!!

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Registered: Jun 2003
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off several dogs being killed by gators, deer dogs hog dogs coon dogs, but only one time in a hunt, or at least i think it was in a hunt, a guy named joe forshee was hunting his spots around lake seminole and a gator got his dog off the tree, they tracked the dog by boat and fished him out of the water. tracey smith lost a nice young dog a few years back to a gator, hunting by a river. it's sad but it does happen esp. when every thing is dry any water hole will hold a gator.

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I was on the cast with Joe Forshee that night. The dogs were treed across a slough that we couldn`t cross on the lake. After all efforts to cross we decided to try and call them off the tree. Something sounded like a dog fight at the tree and all dogs quit treeing. When mine came back he was gashed pretty bad in a few places. I thought maybe it was just a bad dog until Joe`s dog never did come back and the next day they tracked his collar to the water where a gator had got him.

Eddie Fields from Tallahassee just lost a real nice young dog he called Reggie Bush to a gator. He was out of Trackman x Stylish Snag

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I am right with you earthgirl, even though they did find that one in a neighborhood pond over close to the coast! Did you hear about that! They said it was the first reported gater in 20 yrs here in NC! I believe it was like over 7ft long...wow how does a gator that size go un-noticed? I know when I lived in Charelston SC, we would see salt-water crocidiles all the time when we were fishing in creeks and brackish water. I hated it, those things give me the heeby-jeebies!!!

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ELVIS BLACK LOST ONE TO A GATOR, JUST BOUGHT THE DOG,PUT IT IN A HUNT ,ONE HR. LATER IT WAS GONE,THAT WAS IN THE LOWER PART OF S.C.I GUESS THEY LIKE FRESH MEAT.

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Yeah, there are Gators down here but where people hunt there is a high lead content. LOL

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Chadf,

The gator was North of Wilmington, and closer inland than right on the coast, closer towards the Peidmont. I saw it on the news back in the summer. Just going by what they said.

In Chas. SC, everyone calls them salt-water crocs. So that is all I have known them by.

All I know whether gator, croc, large "lizard", whatever......I hate them. Give me a snake, bear, cougar, bugs, they don't bother me, but a gator....AAAHHHHH!!!

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I don't think you will see any gators up in those hills.

BTW are the leaves in full color now?
didn't get to see any fall color from where I'm at.

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Originally posted by chadf
I don't think you will see any gators up in those hills.

BTW are the leaves in full color now?
didn't get to see any fall color from where I'm at.

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Originally posted by countrygirlcoon
I am right with you earthgirl, even though they did find that one in a neighborhood pond over close to the coast! Did you hear about that! They said it was the first reported gater in 20 yrs here in NC! I believe it was like over 7ft long...wow how does a gator that size go un-noticed? I know when I lived in Charelston SC, we would see salt-water crocidiles all the time when we were fishing in creeks and brackish water. I hated it, those things give me the heeby-jeebies!!!

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"our hunt club has lost 11 deer dogs this year to gators.1 maybe 2 a year is normal but this year has been bad.only lost 1 coondog in 9 years."

I think you're in the same area where my uncle, Ervin Commodore lost a dog about 2 yrs ago. They're pretty bad here in sc especially in Goose Creek. I guess that's why their high school mascot is the gator!

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Originally posted by earthgirl1975
I'm so glad we don't have gators here in NC.

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