Lucky Dogs.
I wonder how many of them (if any) will be shy of water in the future. Poor doggos.
It’s good to be reminded that there are kind people out there.
Holy crap!
Good on them!
Wondering if these were hounds of a riding hunt, and what they were doing out hunting in the summer? Does anyone know?
It is hard for to imagine fox hunters just standing on shore and wringing their hands if their hounds were in such dire straits as the story states. I would be in the water myself.
It’s a trailing and chasing competition. The dogs noses just got the best of them.
I would guess that the hounds were well away from shore before their people got there, which leads me to believe that this wasn’t a mounted fox hunt. Does anyone from Mississippi know what a “fox run” is?
Most people can’t swim for a mile out and a mile back, even if they could see the dogs from the shore (which it sounds like they couldn’t) and if they could, how would they rescue 38 panicking hounds?
A boat was required, and how lucky they were that there was one near. 
We were typing at the same time. Thanks for the info!
I was a diehard fox hunter and hound person, so I’d damn sure try my best to rescue at least one to start. When you have helped raise and train hounds and know them all you might do that too.
Oh, I understand the impulse completely, it just seemed like in this case, trying to swim out and rescue the dogs would likely result in someone dying in the attempt.
It would be heartbreaking to have to make that decision.
Grenada Lake is massive and thickly wooded up to the shoreline (on the part of the lake where they work dogs). The dogs had likely bailed off in the lake long before any humans got close enough to know they were all in big trouble.
Some neighbors across the street had a Labrador Retriever that used to swim out after them in the ocean when they went to race their sailboat. After he did it several times, and they had to haul his fat bum up into the boat, they learned to shut him in the house before they left. I don’t think dogs really have a sense that if they swim too far they won’t be able to swim back.
No, they don’t. My grandparents had a water loving poodle who jumped off their boat between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. My grandmother jumped in and was able to get him.
He was used to jumping into their pond at home and would swim to the bottom (about 10 ft down, we didn’t throw it out any further) to retrieve a stone thrown in for him. We would watch him with scuba masks and he always got the stone.
Needless to say, after jumping into Nantucket Sound, he was outfitted with a doggy life jacket and was closely supervised when they were underway on the boat.
A fox run is a fenced area where foxes or coyotes are kept and are used for foxhound competitions. I used to live in an area with a lot of timberland. They used to hold fox hunting competitions there. I’d be picking up stray foxhounds for days afterwards. The hounds are generally trained to come to a horn. Read the Voice of Bugle Ann if you want a good story about this type of fox hunting.
I am MS adjacent. I was super curious. This is a fox run that’s coming up in July on the same lake. The lake is shaped like < and the dogs look to be worked on the right side of that < shape. Again, it’s a really good sized body of water.
You can skip around in this video. I found it this morning and found it interesting.
