Squirrel hunting with a dog?

Did this regularly as a kid..likely the most enjoyable and active hunting I’ve ever done

It’s a lot of fun. If you buy a seasoned dog or have someone bring one in to hunt might want to make sure it’s used to hunting in the terrain that you’re on. We’ve had a few guys bring squirrel dogs to our club before over the years and you could tell they were good dogs and knew what they were doing but had never been in palmetto before and it was throwing them off a pretty good bit. It’s completely anecdotal and may not be the case for all dogs but just something to consider.

Grew up hunting with my grandpa who always had a squirrel dog. All his dogs came from the pound, if they looked like they had a little fice in them that’s the one he’d bring home. Best days of my childhood was squirrel hunting with paw paw and his dogs. Think I was about 15 before I knew their was another way to hunt squirrels!

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Ladner's Black Mouth Curs. Lumberton, MS

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Second this. They breed some incredible dogs. Got one second hand a couple years ago, will tree squirrels and coons. Picking up a puppy in January and plan to train for blood trailing

Squirrel hunting is the best. Hope I'm lucky enough to get some grandkids to take.

Just dont go hunting with somebody who has a great dog with a great place to hunt, and expect to go grab a dog out the pound dump him on shitty land and have the same thing happen. Fun, serviceable dogs are fairly easy to find. Truly great tree dogs are once in a lifetime if you're lucky for someone with a working man's budget and schedule.

You have to enjoy hunting with dogs, and all of the bullshite that goes with it, to enjoy having your own tree dog.

I had feist that was incredible. He came from a long line of hunting dogs. I never had to do anything with him. He just knew what to do. That little dude would climb a tree like a coon trying to get at them. RIP miss you brother. FYI- they are also escape artists. He knocked up every female in a 10 block radius.

I had a Black Lab that was a good squirrel dog.He didn’t bark on the tree but he hunted close so it wasn’t a problem.He would stand up on the tree and there would be a squirrel.

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Hardest part is finding a place that has squirrels and a buddy to go with.

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Same with coons. So many oaks have been harvested coupled with so much land that is now posted it’s hard to find quality places to hunt that you actually can traverse somewhat easily. In Lincoln Parish the good oak bottoms are all but gone. I guess it’s all in where you live. Coon hunting or squirrel hunting in the Mobile and Baldwin county areas is the same way as Lincoln Parish. There are some good forest if you travel by boat on the rivers but the alligators around here are bad about eating your dog. I’m a big fan of hunting with working dogs. Squirrel, coon, rabbit, duck, quail, fox, they all are fun with dogs. When I was young I owned two UKC Grand Night Champions blue ticks. I’ve had friends that owned jam up squirrel dogs and that’s a blast. Currently I’m just hunting GSP on quail and pheasant. But if I lived in the right area I’d have a lot of different hunting dogs. A pack of beagles rabbit hunting is fun. My buddy up in Ruston, LA owns some of the best fox dogs in the country but that’s just not my cup of tea. It’s still a blast but my least favorite.

OP I mean this with all sincerity. If you have the forest to support squirrel hunting with a dog I’d be all over that. It’s so much fun. Kids love it too.