Ray Montoya wrote: Gotta say this, then I will shut my mouth…those that have never owned or hunted behind dogs, will never understand the reason why guys love it so much. Its not about running bear or lion just to kill it, its about the joys and satisfaction of seeing your dogs working, the pride you feel when your dogs work out a confused track and tree the animal…I know a lot of hound hunters that walk up to treed lions and bears, take pictures and video, leash up the dogs and walk away…Years ago, we let a lot of female lions go, but know we get asked by DOW officers to kill them.

It doesnt matter to me if you support hound hunting or not, but what matters is that you stand beside them in the attacks from groups that want to outlaw bear and lion hunting…

I know a guy who lives in Idaho and personally trees 20-40 lions per year and probably hasn’t shot one in a decade. I know old Don Thomas has written several times that he often goes very long stretches without shooting a lion that they’ve treed. Many years in fact. Got to love to hear those dogs bawl on a trail.