EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I have 3 pups im startin theyre around 4 months  ive been laying down tracks for them and theres one pup that allways finds the track and finishes it so i know hes got a good nose. the problem is the pup aint interested in the hog but the other two pups who cant track very good bay the hog once they find it. any ideas?

give him a little bit more time remember he is only 4 months old  :) if you can ge the pig to squealing that might work also

i figured making the hog squeal would get the pup interested so i threw one of my older dogs in the mix to ruff up the hog nn make it squeal but the pup is having none of it. o well hopefully with time it'll show intrest. has anyone ever had a pup not interested and later turn out to be anything?

I have a younger female now that wouldn't show much if any interest if I was around, oddly she'd bay the bark out of herself if I left her sight....wierd. These cur dogs have me really confused after having terriers who don't give adarn what, where, when or who. In the case of your pup I'd would say it simply need maturity, confidence and reasurrance.

Bay dogs are a dime a dozen...strike dogs are harder to come by...

it is too early to tell about the pups. It would be very nice if the pup also bayed but give him time...

Reuben I agree that the pups are too young to tell just yet.  And not trying to steal this thread but I always thought that a baydog and a strike dog was the same thing. Every time I list one of my dogs on here as a bay dog, they will strike also. They find it and then they bay it. So I always thought that was a bay dog.

I say cull him immediately.  At four months old he should actually be retrieving hogs and carrying them back to you.   ;D

Just kidding.  If it was my dog I would give him more time.

DJHOGDOGGER,

You are probably right. A bay dog should be a strike dog but I also think that a bay dog can be a good me too dog so I try to make the distinction between the 2.

i dont pay much attention to what a pup does at 4 months , could be an indicater to what he will be  ... and then again maybe not . just keep it fun for him and give him time .

Most of my dog knowledge has come from dealing with hounds, Rat terriers, and a Lab I had for 14 years. My cur dog knowledge has been accumulated over the last 10 years or so. Until I was around them a great deal and actually owned one, I had no idea just how danged 'strange' they can be, and how wierd their quirks can be. I've owned some that had some really oddball characteristics as I'm sure most of you on here have. But that's just the way of a cur I reckon,...however my best dog is a Fiest/cur cross that has no strange quirks at all, she could pass for a hound in her behavior. So don't worry too much about your pup right now....it may go nust over a hog next time out.

I have two young dogs I started around 6 months old. They would try to escape a pen from a 30lb hog. They wanted nothing to do with it.

Now they are just about a year old and will catch a 150lb boar together no problem.