Mainland Boar Hunting - Bill Westwood

22/07/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/pup-wanted/

I’m on the lookout for my next pig dog. All hunters have preferences on what they want from a dog. Because I had recently put Rastus down I need a replacement for him. Rastus was not just a p…

03/07/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/end-of-an-era/

This is a very hard article to write. We as humans are lucky that we get to live so much longer than our dogs. This leaves us with the very hard decision, to make that hard call when to put one of …

13/06/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/hooked-on-boars/

I had Harry from Hooked on boars with his 5 month old dog Stu for a chance to see his first wild pig. click the link to watch how the training went.

05/06/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/jono-and-odette-groters/

Back into the pig dog training. Today I had Odette and Jono Groters come in with 2 dogs, their 5 year old bitch Willow and 2 year old dog Beau. The reason for their visit was Beau had cost them ove…

30/05/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/dog-training-4/

11/03/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-turns-2/

11/01/2025

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/three-generations-hunting-together/

Dog training is on hold over the summer months due to the heat and other work commitments.I will be driving a spud truck for my son until the end of spud season.Approximately end of April.Once I kn…

28/09/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/gus-at-18-months-old/

My last four days have been spent driving a milk tanker from Darfield in North Canterbury down to Edendale in southland. This had ment that the dogs did not get much time out of their kennels. I no…

27/06/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/guss-solo-find/

Gus is now 15 months old and catching lots of pigs. On today’s hunt I had Gus, Bro and Rastus. All three dogs were wearing muzzles. One of my neighbors had sent me a photo the night before of…

16/06/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/dog-training-3/

Hylton came in today for a couple of hours with his 16 month old bitch, Win. For our first run we took Rastus and Gus with Win. Gus and Win tracked off and caught a small wild pig, luckily the dogs…

11/05/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/pig-dog-training-bookings-taken-now/

For the past ten weeks I have been driving a spud truck helping out my son Sloan. Now the spud season has come to an end for another year which gives me time to get back into my passion for pig dog…

27/04/2024

https://www.pighunt.co.nz/3-generations-of-hunters-creating-memories/

This hunt has been a long time coming. When my youngest son Bryce was young he would always be out on the hill with me hunting. But as he had settled down with his wife Megan and they had two sons,…